Relationality
Interdependence and relational webs and river networks and sanghas
Deep unburdening. Discourse that does not presume the original sin of the other. Discourse that is not seeking to weed out heretics or having the right answer or make your mark or weight down trying to prove something. Can we exhale and let go of our role of perceived universal saviors. Remember the bright place we occupy in a world of vast powers.
... See moreSometimes if we try to carry everything we aren’t able to carry anything. Young ones jump to world level burdens and cosmic battles because the stakes are so high without learning to carry person size burdens first or learning to have responsibility in the intermediate web first. Not to dissuade young activists but that balance is necessary. Why don’t you carry this simple grain of rice for 100 days. Intermediary specifics of community relationship and responsibility. True communal accountability. Cosmic level problems and salvation can be an excuse to avoid communal accountability. And isn’t this a story as old as time? Haven’t we been here before? A difference between instilling a deep sense of responsibility between us the earth and relationality as opposed to putting the burden of the salvation of the earth on our children and that this is end times. Instead leave mystery. Invitation to : careful of the burden we put on our kids. Instead cultivate intermediary support systems.
Young progressives and ideological salvation and perceived utopia. The burden of salvation and salvation narratives vs journeys of remembrance and reconciliation. Each facet of the whole is on its own spiraling journey home. A slow practice of honoring. Be and love and let go. The space between two loaves of bread broken between friendship. Places
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