Sangha of Auspicious Companions

December 18, 2018

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Native Women Reclaim Land Plot by Plot

In the San Francisco Bay Area, demand for land seems endless. Property values are sky-high, rents are backbreaking, and people just keep coming. Over 2 million more are expected to settle here by 2040. Today’s land rush is nothing new. For more than 200 years, there has been a run on Bay Area real estate a relentless wave of colonization, then suburbanization and now gentrification that left the Ohlone, the Bay Area’s first people, landless. Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone leader and her partner in crime Johnella LaRose, who is Shoshone-Bannock and Carrizo; founded the Sogorea Te Land Trust in 2012 to reclaim Ohlone land in the Bay Area. { read more }

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Consider ways you too can “use the master’s tools to disantle the master’s house”. It might be contributing the interest from a bank account to a micro-lending group, “gifting” the use of your private property to someone, or using the income from a retirement or investment account to fund your own private volunteer work.

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December 17, 2018

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Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth

There is a dawning realization from many quarters that the changes humans are making on the planet are comparable to the changes of a major geological era. The scientific evidence says we are damaging life systems on Earth and causing species extinction (20,000 species lost annually) at such a rate as to bring about the end of our current period, the Cenozoic era. No such mass extinction has occurred since the dinosaurs were eliminated 65 million years ago by an asteroid. Our period is considered to be the sixth major extinction in Earth’s 4.7 billion-year history, and in this case humans are the primary cause. Yet the new generation is responding to the call… { read more }

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What changes can you make in how you live to participate in a radical recognition that we must be less destructive to nature and ourselves?

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December 16, 2018

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Pope Francis’ Encyclical: Hearing the Cry of the Earth

The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live — one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole. Sufi mystic, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, reflects on Pope Francis’ 2016 encyclical calling us all to love and care for the sacred life that sustains us, just as it loves and protects us. { read more }

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Go outside today and wake up to the wonder of the web of life we call Earth. Then, spend the rest of the day doing all you do as an act of service, placing the world as a living being within your heart.

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December 15, 2018

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Consider Your Wake

Many of us like to consider the impact we make as a “footprint” we leave behind. But what if instead of a footprint, we imagined our actions leaving a wake? In this article, Andy Smallman explores how the metaphor of a boat in the water can be applied to our daily decisions and interpersonal exchanges. Just as a boat creates waves that affect the vessels around it, so too do our words and actions influence the unfolding of our days and the relationships with those whom we encounter. “Among the things I like about the wake image is that a wake is strongest when it’s new and close, and it comes in contact with lots of things as time passes,” Smallman writes. “In this way it is significant both right away AND in the future, the form of significance just being different.” { read more }

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Challenge yourself to do three things this week that will leave a positive wake. Share your thoughts and ideas in the comments section below!

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December 14, 2018

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How to Live a More Courageous Life

When confronted with fear, the brain will seek relief in the form of old coping habits if left to its own devices. However, there are things we can do to help it change course. If we set the stage for courage, our awareness of what happens to us becomes our greatest ally. “The more you interrupt the old fear-based habits and replace fear-based responses with responses to boost courage, the more you create a ‘courage habit.’ By living your life with courage, you’ll be more likely to make the changes that will lead to greater fulfillment — whether that’s embarking on a new relationship or job, or helping to save the world.” In this article from Greater Good, five tips for changes in your life that will make you aware of how you experience fear, and support courage.
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Intentionally do something that causes fear and notice where you feel it in your body.

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December 13, 2018

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8 World-Views and Practices by Mark Nepo

Since prehistoric hunters had to work together in order to survive, people have had to learn how to share both the workload and the harvest, and the problems and the joys. Through the centuries, traditions have formed and complexities have grown. But the health of all community depends on how we treat each other. This article explores eight worldviews and the practices they offer. Each can help us stay wholehearted, authentic, and in true relationship to life and each other. { read more }

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Consider these eight world views: to repair the connections, to water our common roots, to face a life of compassion, to stay in honest conversation, to welcome other views, to honor our uniqueness and commonness, to create a sense of belonging, and to bear witness to each other? These are not concepts but living tools by which tribes and cultures have sustained human growth on Earth. How can you make good use of these tools today?

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December 12, 2018

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Another World

The creators of the film “Another World” assert that it will change the way you see your world. This documentary is about “mankind’s journey to discover its true force and identity…It is a quest through science and consciousness, individual and planetary, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us, and the universe as a whole.” The filmmakers urge us to become “active, conscious agents of life, creating a better and brighter future for the present and future generations.” Watch the film trailer here to learn more. { read more }

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Today, notice your thoughts. Do you tend to hang on the negative things that happened during the day, or the positive?

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