IS: So much to be with
Upcoming open events:
Saturday October 19 - Practice Dojo: Being With It All #1
Calls start at 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Community calls for Season 16 run every Sunday through December 22.
Do you feel overwhelmed sometimes? Do you avoid bad news? Or are you careful not to put too much hope in good things happening? Do you defend against being known and loved and rejected by keeping your distance? Are you unsure of how to support people that are suffering? Do you cope by solving, ranting, fighting, or denying? What balance of responsibility do you hold toward injustice and suffering out there in the world, or in your own life? Can you sit alone with your thoughts?
Our public series "Being With It All" (What is it? Look here.) starts this Saturday.
You can register here to get the link. (Then from the confirmation email, "Add to Calendar" for the whole series.) You can drop-in to any session, though presumably there's a beneficial compounding-over-time effect available to consistent participants.
Dear reader, there are many things I could say to you today. My heart feels full of... everything? Mostly on the good and potential-good side: I am privileged to be connected to so many people that share in the same spirit of intentionality, perspective, and integrity that animates my choices. (You) People are doing amazing things out there in service to the flourishing of life, and growing continuously ever more capacity to hold and tend shape the evolving complexity of our human (organi-)system.
Works without faith appropriate way-of-being are empty... and wisdom without works/application is in a sense wasted. But together, in a spiral of relational catalysis and reinforcement... We can be and become what the fabric of the universe is calling out for us to become.
Culture is the imaginary world we live in alongside our physical world - and it's a construct that's as real as the effects it has on us. I want to live immersed in the more beautiful world that our hearts dream of.
Getting there, though... I also see near-daily the degree to which our capacity is strained in bridging from one world to the next, in each moment, each feeling, each day, each action, in being expansive enough to contain the multitudes required to dance with the fractal of all these scopes we're embedded in. Trust, coordination, communication, perceptiveness, perspective-taking, courage, faith hope and love. It's so much in every direction. Everything everywhere all at once, as it always has been, and as it will continue to be remade afresh in every moment.
What's present in your expanded awareness right now, and what does it want to connect to next?
Cheers,
James