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Category Archives: natural philosophy
Being Human
–by Climbing PoeTree (Dec 6, 2018) I wonder if the Sun debates dawn some mornings not wanting to rise out of bed from under the down-feather horizon if the sky grows tired of being everywhere at once adapting to the mood swings … Continue reading
Que la Reverencia Sea Nuestra Guía / Let Reverence Be Our Guide
–by Paul Fleischman (Nov 30, 2018) [English below] Meditemos cada mañana y cada tarde así tan confiablemente como el Sol observa el amanecer y el atardecer. Convivamos en santidad con toda la vida, incluso en la coexistencia con la gran araña … Continue reading
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Tagged Paul Fleischman, Vipassana
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Planting Twin Trees
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Nov 22, 2018) There was a custom in the mid-eighteen hundreds of planting twin trees to celebrate a marriage and the starting of a home. The stance of these two, just ten feet apart, recalls a couple standing … Continue reading
Live In the Soul and Be Guided By It
–by Pavithra Mehta (Nov 08, 2019) Dr. V firmly believes that action motivated by love exerts a force and organizing power of its own. He makes the cultivation of unconditional compassion for all beings a daily goal—a Dalai Lama-esque endeavor not always … Continue reading
El Pez y el Ave / The Fish and the Bird
–por Jacobo Grinberg (Nov 02, 2018) [English below] Un pez dorado estaba asombrado por el vuelo de las aves. Le gustaba asomarse a la superficie del agua y ver cómo la golondrina se trasladaba por el espacio abierto al agitar sus alas. … Continue reading
Free of Possession and Full of Belonging
–by Climbing PoeTree (Oct 25, 2018) Darkness is only the absence of light like loneliness is the reason we fight fear is the reason we might never know what it’d be like if we all realized the meaning of our lives and … Continue reading
De Ser Manejad@ a Ser Atraid@ / From Being Driven To Being Drawn
–por Richard Rohr (Oct 18, 2018) [English below] Cuando era joven, me gustaban mucho las ideas y los libros, y todavía leo bastante. Pero cada vez que regreso de un retiro largo en una ermita, no me dan ganas de leer un … Continue reading
Advice From Some of Earth’s Oldest Beings
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oct 11, 2018) This elder has sat silently in these lakeshore woods for ten thousand years as forests have come and gone, lake levels ebbed and flowed. And after all that time, it is still a microcosm of … Continue reading
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Tagged biomimicry, Braiding Sweetgrass, Navajo, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Umbilicaria
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Nuestros Problemas Colectivos y Oportunidades / Our Collective Problems & Opportunities
–por Peace Pilgrim (Oct 4, 2018) [English below] Al observar el Mundo en gran parte empobrecido, me sentí cada vez más intranquila al tener tanto mientras mis hermanos y hermanas pasaban hambre. Finalmente tenía que encontrar otro camino. El cambio se produjo … Continue reading
The Moral Obligation To Shout From The Heart
–by Ken Wilber (Sep 27, 2018) The authentic spiritual camps have the heart and soul of the great transformative traditions, and yet they will always do two things at once: appreciate and engage the lesser and translative practices (upon which their own … Continue reading
