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On Writing More Clearly

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March 14, 2023

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On Writing More Clearly

Writing isn’t a conveyer belt bearing the reader to “the point” at the end of the piece, where the meaning will be revealed. Good writing is significant everywhere, Delightful everywhere.

– Verlyn Klinkenborg –

On Writing More Clearly

“Here, in short, is what I want to tell you.

Know what each sentence says,

What it doesnt say,

And what it implies.

Of these, the hardest is knowing what each sentence actually says.”

Verlyn Klinkenborg teaches creative writing at Yale and is a former member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he shares more in this excerpt from his book, “Several Short Sentences About Writing.” { read more }

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The Grand Predicament

Weekly excerpt to help us remember the sacred.

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The Grand Predicament

–Nic Askew

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2613.jpgA fear of not belonging drives much of what we do and how we are.

Unknowingly it can define the experience of a life.

Most of us live with an underlying sense that we are not yet enough.

And assume that until we are we cannot truly belong.

We assume that we must become a better version of ourself.

But we’re never quite enough in this relentless pursuit of belonging.

We are lost to a never ending self improvement.

Might we have been looking out there when all along it had been within?

Might we already be the version we’d been seeking?

Beyond the endless game of fixing what is seemingly broken there exists a profound experience of knowing that there is no one to fix.

That we are enough as we are. And that we belong without condition.

Yet we cannot seek and hope to find this. As its nature is to find us. And to consume us with no doubt.

No one can teach us this. We cannot learn this.

In a moment of surrender. In a moment of not seeking, the experience can be re-known.

Nothing changes but everything is somehow different.

And then everything begins its transformation.

Liberation, peace and all that follows is the work of Inner View.

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How do you relate to the notion that our deepest experience can be re-known in a moment of surrender and non-seeking? Can you share a personal story of a profound experience of belonging when you stopped seeking and surrendered? What helps you stay rooted in the inner view?

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What Happens in Mindfulness

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What Happens in Mindfulness

Attention and surrender need to be in balance. They are the joysticks you use to navigate the cosmos.

– Cynthia Bourgeault –

What Happens in Mindfulness

“Like mom and apple pie, mindfulness has an unassailable reputation for virtue and wholesomeness. But what actually goes on in the brain and the psyche to deliver the goods? What are we actually signing up for when we embrace a path of mindfulness? In this important new book John Teasdale deftly weaves a course between the Scylla of cognitive science and the Charybdis of classic spiritual teaching to create a clear and compelling understanding of how mindfulness actually works to support the deep, unitive transformation of mind and heart traditionally known as awakening or enlightenment.” Cynthia Bourgeault reviews the book, “What Happens in Mindfulness,” by her student, and cognitive scientist, John Teasdale. { read more }

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Zen TV

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Zen TV

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

– Shunryu Suzuki –

Zen TV

“How many of you know how to watch television?” I asked my class one day. After a few bewildered and silent moments, slowly, one by one, everyone haltingly raised their hands. We soon acknowledged that we were all ‘experts,’ as Harold Garfinkle would say, in the practice of ‘watching television.'”This short excerpt by Bernard McGrane provides a profound thought experiment that can help us “wake up” to what might be really going on when we turn on the television. …

Why Do We Not Sing These Things as Miracles?

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Why Do We Not Sing These Things as Miracles?

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

– C.S. Lewis –

Why Do We Not Sing These Things as Miracles?

“You will say to me that time passeth, that What Was is now only memory, that we cannot reclaim or resurrect that which is inarguably past, but I am going to quibble about this, and quiz and question you hard and close, for I dont even have to shut my eyes and it is six in the morning, long ago and right now, far away and right here, and it is snowing heavily, and there is a silvery shiver to the world, and the house is silent except for how it sighs sometimes when it remembers the forest it used to be, and I am huddled deep under four blankets, and I know without even opening my eyes that everyone else in the house is asleep, for when you are a child you have the most extraordinary senses, and can tell the color of a bird by its song, and the day of the week by the thrum of the rain, and how amused or annoyed your dad is by the tilt of his hat. Why do we not sing these things as miracles?” More from Brian Doyle in this marvelous piece. { read more }

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IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We)

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IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We)

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves.

– Dan Siegel –

IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We)

“We may have a mental understanding that all of life is one inseparable whole, yet how do we actually feel into this reality? And how do we relate to others and the world from this felt awareness? Dr. Daniel J. Siegel is a visionary creative thinker, professor, and founder of the field of interpersonal neurobiology. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Siegel about his book IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging. They explore the direct experience of being the whole of life; interconnection versus intraconnection; honoring the inner, the inter, and the intra; E. O. Wilson’s concept of consilience; the promotion of linkages as the basis of well-being; quantum physics and the study of energy; the Wheel of Awareness practice; the three-pillar practice of focused attention, opening awareness, and building kind intention; the power of wandering and relaxing the flimsy fantasy of certainty; our survival instincts and the investment in being separate; how mindfulness practice interrupts the anticipatory brain and brings us back to presence; the multiple pandemics of our time, and the lie that our identity is only in the solo self; how the tapestry of reality is of love and connection; seeing yourself as a verb instead of a noun; pervasive leadership, and how were all called to assist in the Great Turning; and more.” { read more }

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Dakota 38

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Dakota 38

"To be Dakota means to walk in peace and harmony with every living thing. That is our way."

On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota leaders of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, were hung in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. In May 2005, Jim Miller, a Dakota spiritual leader, had a dream of riding across the great South Dakota plains to Minnesota and watching 38 of his ancestors being hanged. In December 2008, Silas Hagerty and members of Smooth Feather Productions filmed this 330 mile ride of healing and reconciliation from Lower Brule, South Dakota to arrive at Mankato, Minnesota on the anniversary of the execution. Everyone, throughout the 6 years of the making of this 1 hour, 18 minute documentary film, provided their services as a gift to the project. The screening and distribution of "Dakota 38" is offered as a gift to everyone.

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Amishi Jha: Pay Attention to Your Attention

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Amishi Jha: Pay Attention to Your Attention

We can think of attention as the leader of our brain. Wherever our attention goes, the rest of the brain follows. Whatever we pay attention to the brain amplifies.

– Amishi Jha –

Amishi Jha: Pay Attention to Your Attention

Amishi P. Jha came to her pathbreaking work studying the neuroscience of mindfulness and attention when, as a young professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost feeling in her teeth. She had been grinding them as a profound stress response to burnout from her responsibilities as a wife, mother, and tenure-track professor. Knowing from her academic work that the brain can change, she told herself at the start of summer, “before I quit my own career, lets see if I can get my own brain to change.” Fast forwarding to present day, Amishi is one of the first scientists to research the links between mindfulness and attention, she is known for her pioneering mindfulness work with soldiers, firefighters, medical trainees, and more.Her new book, Peak Mind uses fascinating research to debunk widespread assumptions, and surface powerful insights into where purpose and presence really stem from. The book offers accessible 12 minute-a-day exercises to disperse mental fog and strengthen focus to experience more of one’s own life. Learn more about her journey, and work here. { read more }

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Translation Lessons from Superlichen

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Translation Lessons from Superlichen

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

– Ken Liu –

Translation Lessons from Superlichen

“Until the late nineteenth century, lichens were understood as individual organisms. It was then suggested, controversially, that a lichen was, in fact, a partnership. The division between the partners might have been invisible at first, but underneath a microscope, it was plain as day: a lichen was a pact between a fungus and an alga. Scientists began to speak of symbiosis: not survival of the fittest, but cooperation, reciprocity, partnership.” In this lovely piece Jennifer Croft derives lessons in translation from a microscopic natural partnership. { read more }

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When I Touched the Ground

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When I Touched the Ground

Let no one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

– Oodgeroo Noonuccal –

When I Touched the Ground

“Nyurpaya Kaika Burton is a respected and revered senior artist, educator, storyteller and cultural leader. She is also one of the few remaining poetic speakers of Pitjantjatjara, a traditional Indigenous language of Central Australia’s remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. There were once more than 400 traditional languages spoken across the Australian continent, but only around 13 are still spoken by children– all threatened by policies restricting Aboriginal people from speaking their languages and the ongoing forces of colonisation. At the age of 70, she decided to share this deeply personal story of her birth, revealing, for the first time, the traditional birthing methods that have helped define her cultural life. Telling this story is part of her continuous work to protect her ancient culture, and to ensure that future generations can speak the language it lives in.The soundscape is binaural, specifically recorded on the country of Nyurpaya’s birth, in one of the most remote parts of Australia. Therefore the piece is best experienced through headphones.” Radio Atlas shares this hauntingly beautiful piece. { read more }

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“From the perspective of understanding the world we inhabit, I think it’s never good if your idea of a place you don’t live is informed by reports that come from a touristic perspective, or ones that privilege the voices of people who just happen to speak your language,” says Radio Atlas founder Eleanor McDowall. Learn more about her compelling journey and work here. { more }

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