earlier this week, i did some intentional learning about won buddhism. while we were at the won dharma meditation and retreat center for a colab work meeting, i wanted to do more digging into their what and why than i did the first time. sitting in on their morning meditation, i got to experience some of their routine.
Read more...on the third day of the on being gathering, i got to experience a session on narrative medicine with lewis mehl-madrona. he is a physician and indigenous wisdom teacher and the sweetest guy. he taught a session called “speaking in order to listen, listening in order to speak” and it was just great.
Read more...this is the second day in a row that i’ve sat in on the morning meditation at the won dharma center. we’re on a colab staff retreat and since i missed out on the sits last time, i resolved myself to do them this time. they’ve been really good. some thoughts:
Read more...also back in january, adrienne recalled micky scottbey jones’ invitation to brave space. i had heard of the idea of brave space, as opposed to safe space, before but i don’t think i’d ever seen this source material and invitation. it’s quite lovely, i think.
Read more...back in jnauary, we had a colab staff meeting where the topic of the day was the four agreements. the four agreements are ancient toltec wisdom, distilled into western language. they are:
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