I'm receiving these reframings from Benjamin Henretig as a beautiful invitation to ground and support us in tending to our fears, anxiety and grief.May we find some peace, release (cry, scream, move energy through our bodies), relief, rest and wellness through this madness. 🙏🏾💜 Image Description: A list with the heading "Five Creative Reframes in …
the spaces in our togetherness
It’s the second day of Spring, friends! Under ordinary conditions,we’d be inspired into all manner of group outings and activities. But we’re now 7+ days into our collective practice ofsocial/physical distancing to flatten the curve of this new virus,which has demanded a change in how we connectand created a SURGE in our virtual communications. These digital …
embodied prayer | transforming the heart
Through our collective musing in Sangha last Sunday, it became clear to me that "Transformative Love" is the energy that changes the shape of our hearts and minds. As I become more and more of who I am — and something new — I am contemplating the question: What does this look, sound, feel …
on the dharma shelf | october 2017
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
“No, my hope is necessary. But it is not enough. Alone it does not win but without it my struggle will be weak and wobbly. We need critical hope like a fish needs unpolluted water.”
The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture — Kevin Quashie
“Resistance may be deeply resonant with black culture and history, but it is not sufficient for describing the totality of black humanity.
In humanity, quiet is our dignity. This quiet is represented by our interior…In its magnificence, quiet is an invitation to consider black cultural identity from somewhere other than the conceptual places that we have come to accept as definitive of and singular to black culture—not the “hip personality” exposed to and performed for the world, but the interior aliveness, the reservoir of human complexity that is deep inside…
It is…
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on the dharma shelf | september 2017
when you value interfaith learning and being spiritually multilingual:
- Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies + the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
- Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Making Peace by Bernie Glassman
- The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations by Mary Schaller + John Crilly
- “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist” by Stephen Batchelor
bearing witness | on the delusion of colorblindness
Open ya eyes wide and see the truth of the skin I’m in. #TakeItAllIn
As a Dharma practitioner, I have cultivated Sangha on the sacred grounds of the Satipatthana Sutta (theFour Establishments of Mindfulness) and, in our gatherings, turn us again and again and again back to this foundational practice that teaches us to listen deeply,
see clearly,
and “remain established in the observation of the body in the body, diligent, with clear understanding, mindful, having abandoned every craving and every distaste for this life” [Majjhima Nikaya 10, as translated in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Transformation + Healing]. So too with the observation of feelings, thoughts/mental states and perceptions of whatever is in our field of awareness as we engage the world around us.
It is a spiritual discipline to help us acknowledge, take care of, and free ourselves from our attachments…
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radical bodhicitta 