I can’t competeWith the noise of this placeSo let me whisper.Draw closer now,Don’t missThe shape of my lipsForming flotation devicesTo pull usOut of our pain.ShhhhhhhhQuietly my dear–Can you hearThe soundOf silence?It’s our last shelter,A final refugeFor these mindsFlooded with trouble,Too sick to think,Too weak to will.Sit, sit with me hereLet us not speak-It has all … Continue reading Lifeboat
Author: E. H.
Spain Is Not Such A Train.
We aren’t trying to push it. You think we’re absurd? Nah. We’re just A mirror to the world. In Spain, We know that the Earth will spin on its tilting axis Wobbling us nearer and farther and nearer again To the life-giving, life-taking sun, In a fixed gravitational orbit (Gracias a Dios!) Hurtling through infinite … Continue reading Spain Is Not Such A Train.
Why Enlightenment Means Bodhisattva, and Perhaps not Arhant
Being a Bodhisattva, acting like one, keeping the vows, replacing violent reactivity with introspected skillful means -- it's no joke. It's freaking hard. And a budding Bodhisattva does not always remember to process before reacting. How much easier life is for the holy arhant, up on the mountain in isolation, talking to their little plants, … Continue reading Why Enlightenment Means Bodhisattva, and Perhaps not Arhant
Meet Neith-Hotep, Earliest Female Ruler Known to History
Neith-Hotep, ca. 3100 BC was the first female pharaoh and ruler of Egypt, after her husband Narmer (Menes) -- uniter of Upper and Lower Egypt, died. She ruled again as interim regent after her pharaoh son, Hor-Aha, died without an available successor.
Decision-Making Using the “I Ching” Oracle
You have a precious resource at your disposal that you may not be aware of. It is an oracle. Imagine if you had a council of wise elders, available on call whenever you needed input to an important life question. Instead of trekking to Delphi, or following Morpheus to the kitchen of a distinguished rogue … Continue reading Decision-Making Using the “I Ching” Oracle
Love Is A Verb: How To Use Bodhicitta To “Degrief”
It's hard for many of us to deal with someone in visible distress, especially when there is nothing it seems we can do for them. How should we react when faced by someone who is suffering, or when we find ourselves suffering? There is a healing technique known alternatively as "Tonglen," "Bodhicitta" or "Enlightened Heart." … Continue reading Love Is A Verb: How To Use Bodhicitta To “Degrief”
Depressed? Maybe It’s Not You
As a culture, we tend to address mental health issues through pharma drugs and therapy, as if the problem lies within the patient. However, perhaps we should consider that it is the environment’s sickness which causes depression within an individual. Maybe that’s why it’s such a hard illness to resolve.
Chanting: How To Harness the Magic of Sound
Most of us have experienced a glass being shattered from a high-pitched sound, or the push of a contagious bass line that compels us to bust a move in public . We’ve seen hypnotists talk people into embarrassing themselves onstage, and babies soothed by lullabies. We have medical devices which emit sound frequencies to heal … Continue reading Chanting: How To Harness the Magic of Sound
Somatic Realization: Listening to the Body’s Wisdom
(Republished from original in Rebelle Society, March 16 2014) “…But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do—determined to savethe … Continue reading Somatic Realization: Listening to the Body’s Wisdom
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