Zen Open Circle
@ZenOpenCircle
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A dynamic Zen sangha founded in 2000 by Susan Murphy Roshi. Monthly Sydney based sits and a vibrant online community from across Australia.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined December 2015
Honestly, so disappointed at media. The Amazonian youth from Brazil and Ecuador lead the entire march today in Glasgow and were up on the main stage for almost 30 minutes. Frontline people at the FRONT LINE. Yet no coverage. This is what invisiblization looks like. #COP26
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Only about 1% of finance devoted to global climate crisis goes to nature restoration, but “nature-based solutions” among the cheapest ways of absorbing & storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the additional benefits being the protection of wildlife.
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Leonard Cohen “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair/ With a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.”
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"Just wholeheartedly do whatever it is that you are doing. That is Zen practice." —Rinso Ed Sattizan, Abiding...
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Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world...Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever we may be. ―Meister Eckhart
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Often you can't solve problems on their own terms. You have to look at underlying narratives and themes.
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"Grace: something from outside of me gets inside me, often despite me & points me toward beauty, goodness, wisdom."
"When you’re in risky emotional territory, there’s nothing more important than being kind to yourself"
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"When you’re in risky emotional territory, there’s nothing more important than being kind to yourself"
Brief Teachings Summer 2016: simple challenging thoughts from some great Buddhist teachers
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“I knew that the role of the survivor was to testify. Only I did not know how. . . "
Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel
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“The great adventure is the inner world”
"We have to take conscious measures to step into the stillness & be reminded of how it washes us clean." ~@PicoIyer
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#Meditation may seem solitary - even selfish - but evidence shows that it improves #relationships!
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‘The immense suffering that exists in our shared society implicates all of us, and is akin to the “silent war”
“In spiritual terms, whatever awakening you achieve, it is conditioned by the influence of others” - @ethannichtern
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What online culture needs to learn about grief
theatlantic.com
The difference between public mourning and personal loss is acute, and social media hasn't yet figured out the distinction.
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Reflection is the matrix of the moral imagination, our ability to vision a different future and a deeper present
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Connecting in the age of smartphones.
New study: the social evolution of "phubbing” — snubbing someone in a social setting in favor of a phone
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Mindfulness and attention in the age of digital distraction. How do we engage mindfully online?
I'm looking forward to presenting this paper on #Mindfulness as a digital literacy at #unistars conference next week
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“Although two papers in this focus on mindfulness these papers deal with a diverse set of issues”
Journal of Transformative Education has just published a wonderful collection of articles on Contemplative Pedagogy
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Forty-Nine or Fifty? Bearing Witness to Every Life Lost - Upaya Zen Center
upaya.org
“As part of bearing witness to the suffering of this world I think we should count Omar Mateen among the dead. Fifty, not 49. We should say his name, and the names of all of the other mass shooters…
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