Maitri (and a Moment of Gratitude and Joy)
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Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
I went outside in the middle of the day to get supplies from the hardware store for plumbing repairs. An expert friend was teaching me how while doing the needed repairs.
This is one of the things I saw.
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Steadiness of Silence
During one of our sessions, one of my fellow students asked whether she was really seeking a life of renunciation because she sometimes really craved sitting quietly for meditation. For her, having first experienced meditation as an adult who has a rich and comfortable life, even the shortest time sitting with eyes closed looking only within felt like it might be a denial of the outer world.
The practices Paul Muller-Ortega is teaching, and as he makes absolutely clear, are very much for the householder and are not the rarified path of a renunciate. Sitting in silence is a blissful and steady; it is going towards the inner world and not going away from the outer world.
We do not have to renounce our lives to sit regularly in silence. We can frankly delight in the sweetness of inner light and stillness and honor our desire to do so (a true renunciate would have to renounce even that desire). Meditation as part of the daily life of a householder, is a bedrock of support so that we can be ever more fully engaged in our lives, no matter how noisy they can get sometimes.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
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Signs Around Town
Pride is not just rainbows. It is fighting for and speaking out for justice, support, and nourishment for all.
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Signs Around Town (My First Time Out of the House in Two Weeks)
Was to visit and get seedlings to fill out the garden at Cultivate the City (cultivatethecity.com, @cultivatethecity).
What kind of society do want as we come through the pandemic (recognizing the privilege it is to be able to ask this question)?
