Bad News Overwhelm Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from an On Being interview of Zen Buddhist, Roshi Joan Halifax on the topic of “Buoyancy Rather Than Burnout in Our Lives” for those of us overwhelmed by bad news and by the attention we want to pay to suffering in the world….. ” …
Courage Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from ACIM teacher Jennifer Hadley in her October 13, 2017 Daily Spiritual Espresso blog. “Intending to be masterful through having a loving heart has challenged me to do things that I have thought I couldn’t do…. ” <read more…>
The Function of Dissatisfaction Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from one of my favorite Buddhist authors, Cheri Huber. Her book, When You’re Falling, Dive, is a treasure of practical wisdom. “Dissatisfaction is pervasive in human experience. It functions as the foundation for egocentric karmic conditioning….” <read more…>
Turning Toward Nature Weekly Blog Friends, In this week’s blog we look at an article by Heather Swanson entitled Turning Toward the Wilderness. In addition there is a short paragraph from Richard Rohr on Christian mystic, Hildegard of Bingen’s metaphysical view of nature. “What might we hear if we turned toward the tree behind us?”…