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Category Archives: Awakin Oakland
Unlearn to Unlove
–by Ted Seymour (Feb 14, 2019) Let that sink in for a minute. It’s a peculiar phrasing, I know, and one worth re-reading a few times, but I’ve been deeply impacted by these words since first reading them a few of weeks … Continue reading
Las Leyes Universales del Conflicto / The Universal Laws of Conflict
–por Kazu Haga (Feb 7, 2019) [English below] Las enseñanzas de Buda no eran un dogma religioso que le fue transmitido por algún ángel o profeta. Fue su comprensión de las leyes universales de la naturaleza y la realidad de la … Continue reading
Living Deep Ecology
–by Helena Norberg-Hodge (Jan 31, 2019) To me, the essence of deep ecology is moving beyond a type of environmentalism which is still based on a highly reductionist and a highly distant approach to the living world, to the natural world. To … Continue reading
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Tagged Arne Naess, Deep Ecology, Helena Norberg-Hodge
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Para Vivir en el Mundo y El Viaje / To Live in this World & The Journey
–por Mary Oliver (enero 28, 2019) [English below] Para Vivir en el Mundo Mira los árboles están girando sus propios cuerpos en pilares de luz, están ofreciendo la rica fragancia de canela y del cumplimiento, las largas velas de totoras están reventando … Continue reading
Posted in ahimsa, ARTivism, astrobiology, Awakin Oakland, fearlessness, gift-economy, meditation, natural philosophy, poetry, soulforce, WednesdaysOnFridays
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Walking in the Direction of Freedom & Living Bridges
–by Kazu Haga (Jan 17, 2019) Years ago we were running a series of parallel workshops, teaching Kingian Nonviolence every week at a local high-school in Oakland and at the San Bruno County Jail. We would have the students and the men … Continue reading
Reverencia Por Nosotr@s y Nuestro Hogar / Reverence For Us and Our Home
–por Cleary Vaughan-Lee y Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (Jan 10, 2019) [English below] La palabra “reverenciar” se puede definir como tener un profundo respeto o admiración por algo. La reverencia por la vida es una experiencia fundamental como ser humano (estar asombrado de la vida … Continue reading
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Tagged Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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A Wanderer With a Purpose
–by Peace Pilgrim (Jan 3, 2019) A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose. A pilgrimage can be to a place—that’s the best known kind—but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am … Continue reading
Cuando Armonizamos Adentro… / When We Harmonize Within…
–por Facundo Cabral (Dec 27, 2018) [English below] No hay otro que nos salve, es duro reconocer esto, pero cuando lo aprendemos comenzamos a vivir en paz, y en esa paz es posible alcanzar la plenitud, que es salvación. A veces descanso de … Continue reading
Wherever You Receive Love, That’s Your Home
–by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams (Dec 20, 2018) Desmond Tutu: It is wonderful to discover that what we want is not actually happiness. It is not actually what I would speak of. I would speak of joy. Joy subsumes … Continue reading
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Tagged Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams, The Book Of Joy
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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
