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4 Meditations on the End of the World
Hurricane Sandy image from NASA “Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke ____________________________ I. Storms As I sit down to...
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How to Change the World (Hint: It’s Not Voting)
The Freedom Riders “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” ~Emma Goldman _____________________ It’s election day in the U.S. The LLP is getting political today. But not in the way you...
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What in the World Are We Doing?
Photo by Alessandra Oddi, Flickr Creative Commons Last week I gave the dharma talk at Upaya Zen Center with that title — “What in the World Are We Doing?” If you’d like to listen, you can find it here...
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Thoughts on Freedom from Thailand
Ouyporn Khuankaew (L) and Ven. Dhammananda (R) Until we are all free, none of us are free. ~Emma Lazarus _______________ Since July 4, I’ve been on the road, in the air, on the rails, and on the water....
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Free Your Mind and the Rest Will Follow
UXO Laos Centre Where do I begin? It is Tuesday afternoon here in sleepy Luang Prabang, in the country of Lao (full name: Lao’s People Democratic Republic, though it seems that not many Laotians may...
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Love, War, Peace, and Everything in Between: 4 Steps to Changing the World
West Bank, Santas Ghetto. Photo by EddieDangerous, Flickr Creative Commons Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not...
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My Birthday Wish List
Tomorrow is my birthday, the start of my 52’nd trip around the sun. It also marks the 3rd birthday of the Liberated Life Project. People keep asking me what I want for my birthday… and so here is my...
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4 Ways to Transform Despair…. And The Patron Saint of Lost Causes
Joanna Macy teaching at Upaya Zen Center / Photo: Roshi Joan Halifax The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world — we’ve...
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The “Yes!” List
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about despair and hope… how do we move from one to the other, how do we not lose hope when so many terrible things are going on — from our own neighborhood to all...
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The “Yes!” List / September
Raising awareness about the crippling effect of student loan debt Last month’s “Yes!” list was a big hit — so it continues! Honestly, when I wrote up the September list it didn’t cross my mind that I...
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