Community and Mutual Aid

Joss: We are interdependent creatures whether we want to be or not (and sometimes, we really do not). We may not have a choice over whether we are connected to people (and creatures, environs, political structures, god-knows-what-else) but we do have some choice about how we connect with them. Mutual aid is about  “imagin[ing] and build[ing] ways of eating, communicating, sheltering, … Continued

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Buddhas in Disguise

Tasha: What if everyone in your life was actually a fully awakened being, slogging it out beside you just to nudge you into the growth you’re ready for? Like The Truman Show… but with Buddhas instead of actors! This is the old Tibetan practice of Lojong (mind-training), which invites us to look again at the people … Continued

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Love Buzz

Dr James: We are nodes of energy in a growing web of life that stretches into the past and future, though this is little comfort when the person at the grocery store just rammed their cart into our achilles tendon and didn’t even get off the phone to apologize. (“I’m a node..I’m a node of … Continued

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