ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self
“The Japanese American Zen master Shunryu Suzuki
said, “Life is like getting on a small boat that is about to sail
out to sea and sink.’”
Impermanence (and change as a function of impermanence) is the one truth .
You are impermanent even from moment to moment. Right now you are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Each moment is not just a death, but a renewal, a rebirth.
Do you still choose to get on the boat and live a life?
“Faith in something,” he has written in several books, “is an inducement not to dormancy but to action.”
Jimmy Carter
We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. We have to light up that lamp of mindfulness so the light will shine out and the darkness will dissipate and cease. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Turn to the wounded child with your life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
7/10/24
Lion’s Roar
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
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Choosing to Face Our Pain
PRACTICE: Gratitude and the wound
connect the gratitude practice to that deep wounded part in you, let them meet, and let gratitude be thankful for the wounding, all of its deep discomfort and pain
- start to see how the world is supporting you, to see what’s coming in (like the love), see all the gifts that come in
confront a kind of resilience that isn’t really about returning back to the way you were before, but is much more about reclaiming whatever new shape your form has taken. A resilience that doesn’t really ask us to forget, but that carries the memory of whatever harm or whatever fire we’ve been through. A resilience that carries that memory and stil... See more
Resilience Requires Flexibility
Resilience = emergence of something new, not a maintaining of the same
humility is the antidote to humiliation - it requires surrender and acceptance of what is.
we were never trained for this - perhaps only the saints at the blue level completely in servitude to God are the closest examples we have, and have turned away from because of the negative aspects of organized religion. Don’t let those aspects blind you to t
... See morePRACTICE: Gratitude (concrete and subtle)
Pair up with someone you trust and have a relationship with
Take 4 minutes
back and forth sitting across from each other finish the stem: “I’m grateful for…”
Doesn’t matter what we say - share whatever comes through. See where it goes in 4 minutes.