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Today we lost the one and only Roshi Bernie Glassman , one of the world's great Zen Clowns, a brilliant teacher, a man who danced with gravity and joy on the tightrope of the Scared and the Sacred. He did Bearing Witness retreats in places like Auschwitz and the streets of New York City, helped found the Zen Peacemakers order, and so much more. Thank-you for…

Need this quote right now, in this crazy world....

"Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular.

Whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions…

This Earth-dweller seems finely in tune with the Samhain spirit.



Her Scorpionic solitude, in touch with the elements and the fading glories of autumn, admit no compromise, distraction, or superfluous company.



She is where she…

"What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy ...water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being."

~ Ganga…

These are some of our carvings over the years that I do have images of:…

This is a memorial to the truth that real facts matter:

Over a third of Americans now don’t believe that over 6 million Jews were killled in the Holocaust, but on 2 July 1942, 82 children from Lidice -- a small village in Czechoslovakia -- were transferred to the Łódź Gestapo office. Those 82 boys and girls were then transported to an extermination…

it’s 3:23 in the morning

and I’m awake

because my great great grandchildren

won’t let me sleep

my great great grandchildren

ask me in dreams

what did you do while the planet was plundered?...

what did you do when the earth was unraveling?



surely you did something

when the seasons started failing?



as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?



did you fill the streets with protest

when democracy was stolen?…

Happy Birthday Grandpa. I hope someday your philosophy of nonviolence will be understood and accepted by the world and save it from devastation. Although it is so obvious people seem to ignore the fact the the…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/880xda/elephant_rock_iceland/

 a natural rock formation forming an elephant sculptor .

  Many people who hear the words 'world peace' say its impossible.. but really the world doesn't need, want or know the relevance or meaning of the word. Its 'us' that need the peace both necessarily and urgently. When we consider 'our world' not as the globe but as our own individual life experience, that is happening for us 24/7.

Then it needs to be constant contentment or peace..  the source of our own individual peace is found within us.

Accessing the peace…

always and everywhere

Peace is not a Utopian

destination. Peace is how we live,

behave and relate with

compassion and love…

The old age

 Clicia Pavan

Sir!

 Old age is the daughter of time

 That I do not complain when this time comes

 That I never stop loving .. To smile and dream

May I not find foolish the wisdom of getting older

 That I know how to live…

You are important

 Clicia Pavan

You are a child of God.

 Your life is the expression

 What you got inside your heart

 You are a beacon

 That illuminates everything around you

 You bring warmth to those who feel cold and distress

 Your…

Unique way to usher in the New Year.. Thanks Myron Joshua, and thanks for the words and link Shaul David Judelman

https://youtu.be/qagOblqhBhk

John Coltrane - Acknowledgement

time to step out of the old and into the new. Let go, admit, acknowledge and crown the Creator of this crazy world. Pray to be part of the fixing team in the time to come- may we rejoice in the work at hand, in the…

Wishing all our Muslim friends Eid Mubarak !

I feel myself with this lead singer all the way......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBKI3ya-l0

I feel love by 'blue man group'

Art by Krista Marleena

No matter how things are going for you in your life at this time, you can start right where you are. For very short periods of time, surround and contain the achy life as it surges for integration.



For just one second, enter into the fire and infuse…

Photo: Mark Basarab

To engage the work of the shadow, to travel the descendent current into the unlit places, is an act of courage and a compassion that is burning and alive.

For when we re-embody to the unwanted we remove the burden from others to metabolize it for us, which…

Having no safe haven to come alive and share their qualities, the orphaned pieces of psyche have no choice but to conceal themselves deep in the body, the unconscious, in the cells of the heart, brain, belly, and throat. These ones will never truly leave us, but remain in seed form until conditions are ripe for reintegration.



They only long…

* Extreme Palestinians think that I lost my mind and became a normaliser !!!

* Extreme Israeli leftist think that I am on the wrong way and suck up to Zionists 

* Extreme Israeli right wingers think that I am full of hate, that I am against Israel, and that I am only

pretending when talking about peace…