Web of Wakening
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On Transmuting Anger
Dearest Friends, It was such good medicine to be in your company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued exploring our experiences of ecological anger, focusing especially on how we can work with our anger in… Continue reading
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On Befriending Anger
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we began a short series of explorations on the emotions that constitute our experiences of ecological grief. Like I shared in… Continue reading
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On Loving This World
Dearest Friends, It was lovely to be with you in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we concluded our short series of explorations of the work of the beloved environmental activist, systems theorist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy—focusing… Continue reading
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On Coming from Gratitude
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued to explore the work of the beloved environmental activist, systems theorist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy—focusing specifically on the… Continue reading
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On Active Hope
Dearest Friends, Thank you for the medicine of your company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we explored the beloved environmental activist, systems theorist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy’s idea of active hope and how this construct… Continue reading
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On the Varieties of Loss
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering—and welcome once again to our newest member! In last week’s session, we began our exploration of ecological grief and named aspects of it that tend… Continue reading
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On the Faces of Grief
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to see the return of familiar faces in our last gathering. In our most recent conversation, I focused our attention on ecological grief and shared the discoveries that I’d made in my own exploration of… Continue reading
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On Bearing the Unbearable
Dearest Friends, It was deeply nurturing to be in your company again in our last gathering. In the spirit of starting our sangha anew, I didn’t offer a dharma reflection in our session but invited all of us who were… Continue reading
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On Debts of the Heart
Dearest Friends, In the last four weeks, many of you have reached out to express your care, love and concern given the upheavals caused by the closure of Banyan’s mindful friends groups and guided meditations. Some of this concern has… Continue reading
