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#ViennaTeng Portrays #Reality

January 21, 2014 by heatherlynmann

I offer you this lovely gift: the music video "Level Up" by singer-songwriter Vienna Teng. The music is from her album Aims. As is possible in the arts, Vienna's music transcends doubt and fear in an instant. It portrays the true nature of our shared reality and how individual potential…

#ThichNhatHanh: #Meditation on #Water

January 13, 2014 by heatherlynmann

This water's shape is round or square according to the container that holds it. In the spring warmth, it is liquid. In the winter cold, solid. When its path is obstructed, it stands still. How vast it is, yet its source is so small and difficult to find. On the…

#Dharma Talk: the #Paramita of #Ethics

January 11, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Dear Friends, We can create happiness in ourselves and those around us by observing, studying, and practicing the Buddhist teachings on the Paramitas--the six qualities of an enlightened being that transform suffering. In this Dharma Talk, I explore the Parimita of Ethics. Each of us possesses the qualities of transformation,…

Announcing an #EngagedBuddhist Retreat for #EarthHolders

January 8, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Dear Friends, Please come this April to a retreat at Thich Nhat Hanh's Deer Park Monastery in California entitled Earth Holding and Protecting: An Engaged Buddhist Theme Weekend. At the event you will find nourishment, support and strength as you meet brother and sister Earth Holders working to transform planetary…

A #SufiMystic Discusses #AnimaMundi: the #SouloftheWorld

January 5, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Recently, Werner Brandt from the Work that Reconnects sat down with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, a Sufi Mystic, to discuss humankind's spiritual responsibility at this time of planetary transition. To heal the split between spirit and matter, Llewellyn says, we are to witness what is happening, feel our grief (because it is…

#WalkingMeditation at a #BuddhistRetreat

January 3, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Last October, at a Buddhist retreat in Southwestern Wisconsin, I led a walking meditation. Here are my words of introduction and closing comments. Of special note, I'd like to acknowledge Geneen Marie Haugen for her beautiful writing in "Imagining Earth,"a chapter published in Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth.…

A #Gatha for #WaterConservation

January 2, 2014 by heatherlynmann

If you're like me, you want to grow more aware of your daily actions and wake up to those moments when you can live more lightly on the planet. A good way to gently gain awareness is through mindfulness verses or Gathas. These short poems, spoken silently throughout the day,…

#Democracy and #Enlightenment

December 31, 2013 by heatherlynmann

There is a tendency to exchange engaged democracy for passive democracy, to entrust the stewardship of our collective understanding and shared ethic to people who appear to have more knowledge but—in fact—have a limited point of view. We are made of the stuff of earth, evolved by her hand, so…

An #EnglishProverb

December 30, 2013July 2, 2014 by heatherlynmann

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

#WendellBerry: The #Peace of #WildThings

December 29, 2013 by heatherlynmann

When despair grows in me and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron…

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