I enjoyed reading this post and coming back to it today after I stayed with me after I first came across it. I am tea drinker and I get good mileage out of my tea bags. We all have our own way of doing things i.e. drinking tea and that is part of what makes life so interesting. We can see what others do that is the same i.e. drink tea and how they are, at the same time, different i.e. the tea tree and lemon grass tea. It is what makes the universe.
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The Courage to Be New
Robert Frost wrote this interesting poem. It is unclear what the underlying topic was, but it was possibly written after one of the World Wars.It seems with the passing of Pete Seeger thinking about violence and its meaning, if there is any, is appropriate. There isn’t reason, but it seems human nature to overlook the violence beginning in daily life.
The courage to be new is real in many settings. It is hard to change practices and become someone new, although what human being is about, always transforming. We become caught in a vice of busyness that doesn’t let us see past routines or see into them for that matter. Children likely see past much better and then, as they grow up, they are stymied. The courage to stop violence begins with the person, the self. When I look in, I find spaces where light shines in and helps me walk the path with a little more courage.
I hear the world reciting
The mistakes of ancient men,
The brutality and fighting
They will never have again.
Heartbroken and disabled
In body and in mind
They renew talk of the fabled
Federation of Mankind.
But they’re blessed with the acumen
To suspect the human trait
Was not the basest human
That made them militate.
They will tell you more as soon as
You tell them what to do
With their ever breaking newness
And their courage to be new.
Lotus
This is a beautiful haiku which suggests an enlightened self emerges from darkness. Part of my meditation is the reading of a short passage by Osho each morning along with prayers. Osho reminds me that hate cannot prosper where there is love. This message was echoed by Father Richard Rohr’s contemplative passage this morning.
virginal flower
risen from muddy waters
Buddha emergent
(originally posted January 2014)
RIP Pete Seeger
I love his music and his sentiments. He was an amazing person and talent whose music enriches each day for the world.
“A BOY AND HIS THOUGHTS”
There is a simplicity in a child’s life that reveals much about them and the way we can relate to the universe we live in.
After I re-blogged this post, Dina told there is a photographer to give credit to. It is Elena Shumilova. The oversight was not intentional.
Native American Prayer for Healing
What a beautiful way to begin the day.
Wise words that echo around our world, words that we should listen to and appreciate, words that we can all learn from, words that directly link us to mother nature and her awesome power of healing.
Namaste with Love my friends
Always
Mark
Great Thought to Ponder…
Hard and right go together quite often. I had written quite a bit before Christmas and had sunk back to reading. Reading means I don’t have to do the hard and necessary work of writing which requires me to be present to my ideas and those of others I have read in ways that honour both.
“I have found this statement to be very true. But once you start doing the right thing, it becomes much easier to do all of the time.”
Pray Believe Trust and Act
Every morning, I take a 1/2 hour and pray and meditate in the small chapel we have where I stay in Spokane. Prayer is connected to the word listening. It is a deep listening to one’s self and to what is beyond one’s self. Quite often, insights I had not considered appear at that quiet time that is set aside just to listen deeply in the silences between the words I say.
Religion is for people
This is an interesting quote. Parker Palmer and others, including complexity scientists, point out that the etymological roots of religion is to yoke together or join together. Yesterday, during my reading one author (the name escapes me) said ligament has the same roots. We are bound together through what we hold in common. I think religion understood this way stands with spirituality which is what we each bring to the collective and can share with others.
More Grizzly Art
The simplicity of this statement points to the complexity of our place in the universe.
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Teacher as Transformer 