ii. 3/3 Causal - becoming elders

We desperately need healing for groups, institutions, marriages, the wounds of war, violence, racism, and the endless social problems in which we are drowning today. But we won’t know how to heal if we don’t learn the skills at ground zero: the individual human heart.

—Richard Rohr

Healing the world begins with ourselves

To support our awakening:

1. Tune in to your instrument - develop relational rituals first with yourself, then with energies beyond you

2. Work with that instrument to build familiarity and depth to hold the paradox and weight, to be coherence and stillness amidst the maelstrom

3. Connect with Spirit, tune in, and merge

4. Finding a community to pract

inspired by Aiden Cinnamon Tea

There are two dimensions to life, and we should be able to touch both. One is like a wave, and we call it the historical dimension

Beyond Birth and Death

Thich Nhat Hanh

9/17/20

Lion’s Roar

True transcendence frees us from the tyranny of I am, the idolatry of we are, and the scapegoating of they are

From Richard Rohr

“Becoming fire means letting our passion for life and beauty ignite us in the world…. We are called to set the whole world on fire with our passion for God.”

-Christine Valters Paintner

Swap “God” for “Life.” Its the same. God inadvertently frames as an exterior motivator. Life is us, and everything around us. Its both inside and out, unifying.

to show us our mistakes before we make them

Ancestors and Wisdom

if the next kin are ready and open to listen. even if not, we will still speak and offer what we can

PRACTICE: What’s mine to do that I haven’t done?

and

What might I do to move this forward? Contemplate all the things I could do to move my work forward, list them, and notice what’s mine to do.

my vow to support, strengthen, and awaken those devoted to the human spirit who are seeking how best to serve. May we be together in this exploration and recognition of who we are.

From Meg Wheatley

One day as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension. I saw that it was not really dead, but it was merging with the moist soil and preparing to appear on the tree the following spring in another form. I smiled at the leaf and said, “You are pretending.”

Thich Nhat Hanh • Beyond Birth and Death

Thich Nhat Hanh

9/17/20

Lion’s Roar