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June 26 Community Potluck: Healing Racism, Healing Ourselves
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. June 26 Community Potluck: Healing Racism, Healing Ourselves. Community Potluck and C. Healing Racism, Healing Ourselves. Friday, June 26. 4312 SE Stark, Portland. Back patio, enter side gate. Join us for an outdoor summer veg/vegan potluck and community conversation on the new patio at the Meeting House. The food will be scrumptious and the conversation thoughtful and lively. Bring a veg/vegan potluck dish or non-alcoholic beverage to share if you can, and join us! On June ...
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Beloved Community, Path of the Heart
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. Beloved Community, Path of the Heart. My sweet hometown, my closest friends, my satsang, sangha, sacred fellowship all of those simple phrases express a sense of belonging that makes life beautiful, bearable, and meaningful. However we frame it, we explore the possibility of beloved community one conscious action, one conscious breath at a time. When we bring a strong intention and fresh awareness to these simple human actions, we amplify and reinforce them. These simple...
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Archive
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. Oct 16-19: Loving, Living, and Dying Retreat. October 16-19 at Breitenbush Hot Springs Loving, Living, and Dying An opportunity to explore the wide terrain of love, beauty, grief, change, and letting go. Space is limited. Register by calling Breitenbush at 503-854-3320. Our presenter is Betsy Toll (see below). Impermanence is the ultimate nature of life and presents our greatest challenge. The inescapable truth that everything will […]. June 20 Dharma Circle Hike-Meditation.
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Who We Are
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. Living Earth began in 1998 and since that time has been served by a mostly rotating board and a fluid circle of talented and caring volunteers. Living Earth grew out of an idea that. Has been central to the success of those programs. Pictured on the left, with member and former board member Judith Beck) is a current board member who has been a wonderful Living Earth volunteer since 2000. A regular participant in our dharma circles and retreats, Bev lives an ethic of enga...
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Dharma Circles
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. NOTE: Dharma Circle schedule and location will change July 1, 2016, for the summer. Please check back for updated information! Meditation, chanting, kirtan, poetry, and dharma reflection shape this weekly satsang. We sit in the light of Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass, and Ramana Maharshi, as well as the Buddha, Sufi mystics, Abrahamic teachings, and indigenous earth-centered traditions. Following the ever-unfolding path of the heart, our simple satsang is open to all. Long-time ...
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. Oct 28-29: Healing at the Edge – Practices for Living and Dying. Healing at the Edge: Practices for Living and Dying Dale Borglum, PhD, Director of the Living/Dying Project October 28 and 29 Friday: 7:00-9:00 pm Saturday workshop: 9:30 am-4:30 pm First Unitarian Church Eliot Center 1011 SW 12th Avenue, Portland Registration: Friday: sliding scale $10-$25 Sat. workshop: $150 / $125 before 10/1 Students with 2016-17 student ID: $90 at […]. Dharma Trail: Walking Meditation and ...
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Intimate Darkness, Spacious Light: Oct. 18-21
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. Intimate Darkness, Spacious Light: Oct. 18-21. Intimate Darkness, Spacious Light:. Loving, Living, and Dying. A time and place to explore all that it means to live, to love, and to let go. October 18-21 at Breitenbush Hot Springs. Space will be limited. Register by calling Breitenbush. At 503-854-3320. This retreat is offered by Betsy Toll (see below). Will include dialogue, reflection, meditation, and interactive experiential practices. Time in session will be balanced ...
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About Living Earth
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. We honor the deep spiritual principles at the heart of all the world’s enduring religious and philosophical traditions: compassion, celebration, gratitude, reverence, responsibility, humility, and non-harming. We support the efforts of all who are defending people and places from abuse, injustice, oppression, and destruction. We encourage connection among all who are developing new ways of living, politically, socially, and personally. September 9 Brown Bags! Oct 16-19: Lovi...
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Dana
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. The Pali term “dana”. From the Sanskrit daan. Translates into English as giving, or generosity, an expression of gratitude for what has been received. Invites reflection on the goodness of giving and welcomes us to participate in a world that reflects our deepest ease and joy. Is a means to express appreciation for what is priceless. Very different than paying a fee for a service, dana. Lets our appreciation bubble up and flow naturally. In western culture,. Is an opportunit...
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Peace Service Beauty Balance. Oct 28-29: Healing at the Edge – Practices for Living and Dying. Healing at the Edge: Practices for Living and Dying Dale Borglum, PhD, Director of the Living/Dying Project October 28 and 29 Friday: 7:00-9:00 pm Saturday workshop: 9:30 am-4:30 pm First Unitarian Church Eliot Center 1011 SW 12th Avenue, Portland Registration: Friday: sliding scale $10-$25 Sat. workshop: $150 / $125 before 10/1 Students with 2016-17 student ID: $90 at […]. September 9 Brown Bags! Everyone....
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