Sangha of Auspicious Companions

October 31, 2023

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Kintsugi: The Golden Joinery of Love

Sue Cochrane was a family court judge who sought to bring more love into the practice of law. The forces she battled were not confined to the court room — among them, poverty, violence, addiction, abuse, a terminal diagnosis and more. In this powerful piece, she explores kintsugi — a stunning Japanese art form in which broken pottery is repaired by filling the cracks with gold. Kingtsugi, poems, quotes, and books inspire this remarkable individual, “to find healing in a life that for a long time, was not only cracked, but broken apart — and, in a few places completely shattered.” Sue (who passed away in 2021,) tells her story here as a reminder of our shared humanity, our vulnerability, and the capacity we have to heal our brokenness in beautiful ways. { read more }

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October 30, 2023

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Pooja Lakshmin: Self Care the Right Way

“The wellness industry saturates our cultural consciousness, with juice cleanses, organic skincare, and spa retreats flooding our social media feeds. But what does this plethora of dazzling — and often expensive — lifestyle products all amount to? Not much, argues Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, a psychiatrist who specializes in women’s mental health and clinical assistant professor at George Washington University School of Medicine. As she writes, “our understanding of self-care and wellness is incomplete at best and manipulative at worst. We cannot meditate our way out of a 40 hour workweek without childcare. These wellness products keep us looking outward, comparing ourselves with others or striving for perfection.” She details her ideas for achieving true wellness in her recently released book, Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness. In this episode, Dr. Lakshmin joins us to discuss how she overcame her own struggles working in medicine and details practical strategies for real self-care, which, in her words, “isn’t a thing to do or buy, but a way to be.” Listen to the interview or read the transcript here. { read more }

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Take a moment to reflect on what self-care means to you and how you practice it in your own daily life.

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October 29, 2023

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Kabir Helminksi: Rumi & the Mysterion

“Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. He is the author of Living Presence and the translator of four volumes of Rumis poetry, including Love Is a Stranger and Rumi: Daylight. His new book which we discuss on the podcast is The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human.” More in this conversation from Science & Nonduality. { read more }

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October 28, 2023

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The Endless Vows

“There are four vows we can practice in any given moment that will return us to what matters, that will return us to ourselves and each other. They are simple and always in reach, though they require everything from us. They are the utterances: help, thank you, I’m sorry, and I love you.” Poet Mark Nepo shares more in this piece from Parabola magazine. { read more }

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October 27, 2023

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The Yellow Umbrella

This animated short film is based on the true story of a little girl in Brazil who visited an orphanage with her mother to bring gifts to the children living there. Her yellow umbrella stirs memories for one little boy of a life and loved ones now lost to him. The revealing of his story touches the little girl, teaching her empathy and kindness. She gives him a gift from her heart that he grows up to repay with his own acts of kindness. { read more }

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Make an intention to add more acts of kindness to your daily life, and strive to live into that intention.

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October 26, 2023

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The Marvelous Connections Between Poetry & Medicine

“Sri Shamasunder likes to say he was a poet before he was a doctor. His college mentor, the legendary poet and activist June Jordan, passed away from cancer during his first year of medical school, but had a lasting impact on his practice of medicine. She encouraged him to harness righteous anger and to use his voice to fight inequity, inspiring Shamasunder’s work as a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and as the co-founder and director of the HEAL Initiative, an equity-based global health fellowship that provides quality care for communities in need around the world.” In the following podcast Sri explores the parallels between poetry and medicine, how the HEAL Initiative nurtures “noble friendships” across cultural divides, the influence of his mentors, and more. { read more }

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October 25, 2023

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All Real Living is Meeting

Cornelius Pieztner, currently a high-impact financial professional, spent the first 45 years of his life at Camphill – a network of intentional communities co-founded by his father Carlos Pietzner. The communities were designed for children and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through his interactions and work with teenagers with pronounced developmental disabilities, Cornelius realized that his primary work was not to fix the “other”, but to work on himself to cultivate tolerance, acceptance, and love. { read more }

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October 24, 2023

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17 Life Learnings from 17 Years of the Marginalian

“The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels to me now almost like a different species of consciousness. (It can only be so — if we don’t continually outgrow ourselves, if we don’t wince a little at our former ideas, ideals, and beliefs, we ossify and perish.) Seven years into this labor of love, which had by then become my life and livelihood, I decided to set down some of the most important things I learned about living in the course of writing this personal record of reckoning with our search for meaning. Every year in the decade since, I have added one new learning and changed none of the previous. (It can only be so — a person is less like a star, whose very chemistry, the source of its light, changes profoundly over its life-cycle, and more like a planet, like this planet, whose landscape changes over the ages but is always shaped by the geologic strata layered beneath, encoding everything the planet has been since its birth.)” Maria Popova shares more… { read more }

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