Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
saracampbell.co
The reason why you charge forward with courage is to build your spiritual reserves. True spiritual reserves are not built in quiet temples or silent retreats - they are carved within you in the middle of nights when sleep does not come, etched into your marrow when your silent screams lose meaning, and cut from the slow-trickling minutes when no on... See more
buridansridgex.comNow I understand that what is most critical is our objective for living. We must clarify and see without any doubt that living a truly human life is our highest value.
Daitsu Tom Wright • The Roots of Goodness
The realm of dainin—great people or true adults—has yet to begin. You could say that we are now living in an era of barbaric humanity, a sort of prehistory. We haven’t yet begun a historical period of true humanity. Now, it’s just primitive human beings being led by the nose by greed. It’s like a frenzied world of people just scraping and clawing a
... See moreDaitsu Tom Wright • The Roots of Goodness
My teacher had a metaphor for the dissonance a good teacher generates:
A student asks a teacher for direction. "Tell me who I am. What should I do?"
A bad teacher gives answers. Adds burdens. More chains. Rules. The student is overjoyed to receive the answer and says, "Thank you! Now I know!"
A good teacher robs the student of answers. Unburdens them... See more
A student asks a teacher for direction. "Tell me who I am. What should I do?"
A bad teacher gives answers. Adds burdens. More chains. Rules. The student is overjoyed to receive the answer and says, "Thank you! Now I know!"
A good teacher robs the student of answers. Unburdens them... See more
dharma house: from monastery to co-housing
Chanting, flute or drum playing, and dancing in demilitarized patterns are ideally natural forms of yoga-meditation, because they silence the hypnotic chattering of thought and give one a direct feeling of shabda—the basic energy or vibration of the universe. This is why Gregorian chant, for example, gives the sense of eternity so absent from meter
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
It is also said that the mind rides on the subtle energy of the breath, the prana, which moves through and purifies the subtle channels of the body. So when you chant a mantra, you are charging your breath and energy with the energy of the mantra, and so working directly on your mind and subtle body.