Joan Halifax
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Buddhist teacher, author, social activist, anthropologist, Abbot: Upaya Zen Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Join the two precious people Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski with Roshi Joan: this morning, Sun, Jul 7, 11-12:30 MT On bridging the divide. Free. Donation appreciated
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Beloved teacher Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh has passed from our world. We will offer a memorial service for Thay this afternoon 5;30PM MT, beginning with sitting meditation. If you are in Winter Practice Period, please join by zoom. Or you can join here:
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my beloved friend ram dass just left his body. we have all been the beneficiaries of his great love and wisdom. i am broken hearted that he is gone.......... and so it is...........
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1. Is it true?
2. Is it kind?
3. Is it beneficial?
4. Is it necessary?
5. Is it the right time?
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The real trauma will be not convicting Trump. Without accountability, actions like his are covertly sanctioned, putting our future in peril. Yes, I am a Buddhist, and compassion tells us that love and justice do not have to be separate.
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49th day since beloved Thich Nhat Hanh's passing from this earth. May we carry forward his precious legacy of peace.
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Deb Haaland has just been confirmed as Secretary of the Interior of the United States by President Biden. We in New Mexico are so grateful for her powerful accomplishment and her commitment to environmental sanity and health and protection of our lands.
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Viktor Frankl “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our power to choose. And in our choice lies our growth and our freedom.”
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The Five Gatekeepers of Speech:
1. Is it true?
2. Is it kind?
3. Is it beneficial?
4. Is it necessary?
5. Is it the right time?
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Good morning, eighty. That was such a tender and totally totally joyful birthday. So deeply grateful to have health, kalyanamitra, and the vow to serve,
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The last time I saw him, sensing it might be so. Loving awareness....... our Ram Dass
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"People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go."
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Kintsukuroi: the art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold or platinum mixed with lacquer; the repair reflects the history of breakage. The “repaired” object mirrors the fragility and imperfection of life & also its beauty & strength. The object returns to wholeness.
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Another year around the sun. Dear friends took me to dinner last night to celebrate my 79th year... and tonight with beloved Upaya residents. I took some time at the Refuge to reflect on my mother and father and all I learned from them. Grateful for life...
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My good friend Rebecca Solnit has written: “Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. Let us be fed by revolutionary joy.
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Joy and relief at receiving the first dose of the vaccination.
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The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want it to be.” -- bell hooks
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Good news:
I am covid anti-spike antibody positive,
13 days after the second vaccination.
As for the hair, no comment...
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So many years of connection with this wonderful human being. Happy birthday, old friend. A deep and loving bow
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This is what compassion looks like: Orphaned mountain gorilla Ndakasi lies in the arms of her caregiver, Andre Bauma, shortly before dying on Sept. 26. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.
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As I approach my 80th year, I remember this moment in 1984, and in the recall, I know not much has changed in my basic character and as well everything has changed.
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Tears... I am so moved seeing Vice President Kamala Harris stepping into her power/love.
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Jesus, forgive us........ on this day, may we offer our lives to the ending of suffering...........
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I am doing whatever I can do keep my heart strong and open. These are the kind of times when we must meet life with hope.
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Naomi Osaka is not a media commodity. She is a human, an extraordinary athlete, and has taken her power and placed it in her heart. I honor her.
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Remembering... A long tme ago: Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Trungpa Rinpoche here
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In Zen, our practice is about taking nothing for granted.
All has been given to us & it is a sacred act to acknowledge the gift of this life, this body, each other, our temple, the earth on which we stand, the trees, the birds & all creatures, the wind & sky.
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St. John of the Cross “I saw the river over which each soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven / and the name of that river was Suffering. / I saw the boat which carries souls across the river, and the name of that boat is Love”.
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Arrested today, with 143 others, including Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler..... Just released after ten hours with co-arrestees in a holding warehouse somewhere in DC. Fire Drill Friday, Climate protest.
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Sit, just sit
sit with it all
sit through it all
steadfast, upright, tender.
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I feel to repost this now as a guard against lying becoming a norm in our society.
The Five Gatekeepers of Speech:
1. Is it true?
2. Is it kind?
3. Is it beneficial?
4. Is it necessary?
5. Is it the right time?
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"People assume you can't be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it's a commitment to search for possibilities."
--Rebecca Solnit
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People ask: why are you still on twitter? They also ask why I volunteered to work on death row in the Pen of NM. Twitter is a charnel ground. So is the pen. This is a place I choose to practice. There is little chance of changing the culture of Twitter without being inside it.
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I found myself weeping tonight thinking about George Floyd's final cry for help: Mama! May we all recall the many who have been killed because of the violence of racism in our country, and may we come home to justice as well as love.
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Awakened at two this morning, with my mother and father so close in my heart. Grateful to have reached the venerable age of 80 and having done a good thing or two.
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STANDING AT THE EDGE …
A recent comment: A powerful and wise book that is a must-read today
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Leaving for India early this morning. Recalling how often His Holiness the Dalai Lama cites Shantideva. Here is our practice: :May I become at all times, both now and forever, a protector of those without protection, a guide for those who have lost their way, a ship for those
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time.
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There is no winner in war.
The only way to end the suffering
is to stop.
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Ted Cruz, I am deeply dismayed by your sexist and racist behavior. I speak as an elder, a woman, a teacher, a person who cherishes love and justice. You can be better a better man than this. Be it. Or you will take shame to your grave.
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We must have faith to meet life as it is. Fires, floods, war, and winds, we do not turn away. In meeting life as it is, you become all of life. Zen Master Keizan teaches: Do not find fault with the present. This is what it is to be fully alive.
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My favorite photograph of Ram Dass and me, taken on Valentine's day some years ago, when we had a precious dinner for two across the island. I loved him so much, and the love continues.
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2019, winter solstice, peaceful enviro protest in front of our nation's capitol, 143 arrested, including me. 2021, violence and death in the "people's house," 15 arrested. take note.
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HH Dalai Lama: “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
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Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having. -- The Dalai Lama,
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Rambled nearly four miles today. Then studied for upcoming teachings, as I listened to the wind sounds of late summer. I watched the light fall and cherish each day I can practice and serve in some small way.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: The 9th Mindfulness Training on truthful & loving speech ends: “We will do our best to speak out about situations of injustice, even when doing so may make difficulties for us or threaten our safety.” This admonition is particularly important at this time.
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"The essence of all spiritual life is your attitude towards others. Once you have pure and sincere motives, all the rest follows." His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Nisargadatta: “When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that’s love. Between these two my life flows.”
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“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” -RBG
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The anniversary of the great samadhi of my beloved friend Ram Dass. Love, serve, remember...
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A working definition of compassion: Compassion is the capacity to attend to the experience of others; to feel genuine concern for others; to sense what will serve others; and potentially to be able to be of service to and benefit others.
(photo: jhalifax)
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#choosedemocracy
1. We will vote
2. We will refuse to accept election results until all the votes are counted
3. We will nonviolently take to the streets if a coup is attempted
4. If we need to, we will shut down this country to protect the integrity of the democratic process
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The Five Gatekeepers of Speech:
1. Is it true?
2. Is it kind?
3. Is it beneficial?
4. Is it necessary?
5. Is it the right time?
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -James A. Baldwin
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