relationship

Hiding and Seeking

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There’s a lot to hide from these days. The sense of hopelessness in witnessing climate catastrophe, helplessness in the face of war, injustice, and the erosion of multiple rights and freedoms can be overwhelming. The urge to turtle into the comfort of our own safe harbours of distraction or like-minded ideological bubbles is completely understandable.
But to address these giant crises and their systemic roots, we’re going to have to come out of our hidey holes eventually. Truth is we need each other, and not just those in our comfortable circles. Our existence as a species, our survival and safety, is absolutely tied to one another. We live in relationship, to everyone and everything.

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We Live in Relationship

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Practice is a potent reminder of our relational nature. When we take the time to practice, we come to see how we relate to ourselves, others, our environments, our challenges and successes, our dreams, our fears. If enlightenment really is intimacy with all things, how can we cultivate healthy, intimate connections of all sorts in all parts of our lives?

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Devotion

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We can start pretending, in a vaguely schizoid way, that existence / nature / whatever responds to our overtures, indeed, that the whole container is a 360-degree dance partner keeping time with your every move.

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