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The Authentic Life | Shunyata's Apprentice
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Category Archives: The Authentic Life. An attempt at analysis of the modern era and our ways of dealing with it. August 29, 2016. Well into my second week being mostly off the media grid, I’m feeling a recovery of the feelings of beauty and wonder that constitute love for the world… at least most of the time! The universe gave me a little nudge in that direction a few days ago when I came across this beautiful passage written by a friend, Sonya Huber:. This is practice in its highest form. However, why e...
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Real Practice | Shunyata's Apprentice
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Category Archives: Real Practice. May 22, 2016. Quivering with compassion, quaking with confusion-. From Buddhist Peace Fellowship: (this describes my state of heart – Perfectly! People need space to make sense of this political moment — Trump’s hate mongering, the daily stories of cops killing folks of color, and the inspiring brilliance of liberatory movements like. 8212; Dawn Haney, BPF co-director, in Growing the Ranks…. Looking around at what people are saying, I wonder, who are these people? If you...
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September 30, 2015. The Fire Next Time. That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and control my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me…. Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’. Between the World and Me. 8211; about which I blogged earlier this week – sent me back to reread James Baldwin’s. The Fire Next Time. Wright’s poem of the same name, from. And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing,. White people in ...
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farming | Shunyata's Apprentice
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July 23, 2015. Dieing well in America – Part I. I’m not a theist,. As those of you who know me, or who’ve read a bit here, are aware, but things keep happening things that make me wonder well, that make me think that somehow ‘the universe’ at least our little bit of the energy spectrum we like to think of as the universe is. Is that a cautious enough description? I know you skeptics dismiss all this as just pure coincidence, and there’s no arguing with that, it well could be, but sometimes it just. He sa...
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American culture | Shunyata's Apprentice
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Tag Archives: American culture. July 23, 2015. Dieing well in America – Part I. I’m not a theist,. As those of you who know me, or who’ve read a bit here, are aware, but things keep happening things that make me wonder well, that make me think that somehow ‘the universe’ at least our little bit of the energy spectrum we like to think of as the universe is. Is that a cautious enough description? But, here it is: Since I finished. And then, in. I will be transcribing from the article here, as The Sun is no...
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A Guide to Meditation | Shunyata's Apprentice
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Category Archives: A Guide to Meditation. Helps from my personal experience, from the Buddhist teachings, and the writings of other meditators to facilitate finding and maintaining a meditation practice. August 30, 2016. A Memoirist’s Manifesto. A great blog post from Sonya…. The language of hate and exclusion creeps into society like a cancer, a fungus. When the solution to a problem is framed in terms of Who should we get rid of? Posted in A Guide to Meditation. August 3, 2016. Like many young white pr...
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A fine way to die | Shunyata's Apprentice
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July 19, 2015. A fine way to die. When I was about six years old, my maternal grandmother died. I remember the ride from Valdosta, Georgia to Dixie, Georgia for the funeral, with my mother crying and my father quiet and serious. I remember that we passed a cemetery as we were leaving town, and I realized that the two things were connected, though I wasn’t sure just how. I don’t remember what she said to me, but I remember well the soft voice speaking my name, ‘Johnny! Though the memory is not so clear, I...
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Buddhist chants | Shunyata's Apprentice
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Tag Archives: Buddhist chants. July 23, 2015. In my efforts to establish, maintain, reestablish and re-maintain a meditation practice – a life practice based on meditation, really – I have found that the daily devotional is helpful and adds a dimension of delight to the process. I light my candle and incense to begin, and offer an incense chant borrowed from Thich Nhat Hanh, which contains the same elements as the traditional offering but with expanded content that makes them more meaningful for us: (the...
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“The thread of all sorrows… | Shunyata's Apprentice
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July 21, 2015. 8220;The thread of all sorrows…. I had stopped reading articles about the Charleston shooting and the flag, but my friend Janisse recommended this article. Highly, as do I. It was written by Holly Haworth for “On Being” with Krista Tippett. And as Janisse said, it gives me words to express my sorrow that I had not found on my own:. Http:/ www.onbeing.org/blog/the-thread-of-all-sorrows/7727#comment-1635546. This entry was posted in The Authentic Life. I'd love to hear from you! 13 Koinonia ...
