28-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 28, Keep It Going
February 28, 2012 § 1 Comment
As we come to the end of February and the end of the 28-Day Meditation Challenge I am thinking about techniques to keep the practice going and alive in our daily lives. As Sharon Salzberg writes in the final chapter Keeping the Practice Going the main point is “just put your body there”. Assuming the meditation posture, upright, heart lifted, sits bones grounded, relaxed and alert, is often the most challenging aspect of a regular practice. But once you’re there, the rest just flows. « Read the rest of this entry »
28-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 21, Infatuation
February 21, 2012 § Leave a comment
I’m infatuated… and I can’t think of anything else but the object of my obsession, er… I mean, affection. Even writing this post is troublesome as all I want to do is spend time with my sweetheart, to treasure the joy, pain, decorum and restraint of our time together. It’s new, it’s thrilling, it’s wondrous, it’s… a TV show.
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28-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 14
February 14, 2012 § Leave a comment
It’s Day 14 of the 28-Day Meditation Challenge and it also happens to be Valentine’s day OR Singles’ Awareness Day, depending on which one you prefer to celebrate. I’m going to celebrate love today. Corny, silly, nasty, naughty, bodacious, bold, bad, tender, sad, all the flavors of love. « Read the rest of this entry »
Urban Sangha Project at Occupy Town Square
February 14, 2012 § 1 Comment
On February 11th Occupy Town Square at the West Park Presbyterian Church on west 86th St brought together activists young and old, seasoned veterans and newcomers, Marxists, anarchists, socialists, bloggers, screen-printers, dreamers, and me. Walking in I found myself unexpectedly incredibly moved by the atmosphere of camaraderie and, dare I say it, family. It felt so good to be together again in solidarity, occupying the same space, with my brothers and sisters in this struggle for a more peaceful and just world. Occupy Town Square was the easy relaxed conversation and sharing that we’d been missing since Mayor Bloomberg’s brutal eviction of OWS from the grounds of Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park).
Food from the People’s Kitchen! Books from the People’s Library! Performances on the People’s Stage! Think Tank. Dancing. Yelly person yelling. And so much more. It was like being back in the park but indoors! It was truly beautiful.
We met awesome new people and reconnected with old friends as Booker and I passed around flyers for the Urban Sangha Project’s new Thursday afternoon class called Sustainable Activism. It’s a 90 minute class that includes yoga, meditation and dialogue.
Sustainable Activism: Yoga and Meditation Class from the Urban Sangha Project
in affinity with the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street
Join us on Thursdays at noon for an hour and a half of yoga, meditation and dialogue to express and celebrate our work as Change Makers. These classes are a way to get support, release tension, create community and to find some balance so that there is sustainability in their activism.
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28-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 7
February 7, 2012 § Leave a comment
My mood is best described as annoyed or aggravated on this seventh day of the 28-Day Meditation Challenge. And sure, there are reasons. Phases of the moon and such. « Read the rest of this entry »
#OccupySamsara: The Power of Practice
January 31, 2012 § Leave a comment
The news about neural plasticity, the ability of the human brain to develop new neural pathways through repetition, is quite encouraging. It affirms what the old yogis and meditation masters have been saying about the nature of the mind for thousands of years. « Read the rest of this entry »
#OccupySamsara: My Fresh Little Self
January 17, 2012 § Leave a comment
How do you keep yourself fresh, not just on the outside but within? « Read the rest of this entry »
#OccupySamsara: Toothache and Ambition
January 10, 2012 § Leave a comment
Like an elastic band the pain in my mouth snaps me back to the dharma, the reality, of my fragile body in this singular moment in space time. All my hopes and fears, all my activism and frivolity, all my sins and virtues are rendered meaningless by this dull ache. The irony of wisdom, it pushes everything else and necessitates a new paradigm. Like it or not physical reality is what it is, the pain, the pleasure, the dull neutral and bright neutral qualities are here and then gone. « Read the rest of this entry »
#OccupySamsara: Just the Two of Us
December 10, 2011 § Leave a comment
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.-from the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu (author), Stephen Mitchell (translation) « Read the rest of this entry »
Margoshka and the Infinite Process 