Category Archives: Awakin Oakland

La Naturaleza y Nuestra Alegría / Nature and Our Joy

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

–por Michael McCarthy  (June 14, 2018) [English below] El mundo natural puede ofrecernos más que, por un lado, los que necesitamos para sobrevivir, o, por el otro lado, los riesgos mortales que hay que evitar: también puede ofrecernos alegría. […] Puede haber … Continue reading →

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Dis-identifying With The Line: How Much Is Enough?

Posted on June 7, 2018 by

–by Miki Kashtan  (Mayo 31, 2018) I introduced the idea of stepping off the line we all live on, where most of us are constantly trying to get ahead, and described the value I see in aiming to step off the line … Continue reading →

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Tener No-Forma / Having No-Form

Posted on June 1, 2018 by

–por Bruce Lee  (Mayo 31, 2018) [English below] Déjame empezar con una historia Zen. Puede ser que algun@s de ustedes ya hayan escuchado esta historia, pero la cuento de nuevo porque es idónea. Considera esta historia como un forma de calentar los … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness As A Way To Remember The True Self

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

–by Ken Wilber  (May 24, 2018) I always liked the Course’s reliance upon forgiveness as a way to remember the true Self. This is a somewhat unique approach, found in few of the other great wisdom traditions, which usually stress some form of awareness … Continue reading →

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Viajer@ del Tiempo / Time Traveler

Posted on May 18, 2018 by

–por Lyla June Johnston  (Mayo 17, 2018) [English below] Viajer@ del tiempo corriendo más rápido. La guerrera nace. Batalla para ser ganada. Trauma del pasado, daño del futuro. Soy un@ niñ@ de la tierra y estoy list@ para dar a luz. Plantando … Continue reading →

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Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me and Loving Wisdom

Posted on May 11, 2018 by

por Maya Angelou  (May 10, 2018) Oprah: You see where you fit in life. Maya: Yes. And I know that whatever I have is a gift. I accept that, and I’m grateful to those who went before me so that I can do … Continue reading →

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Set Our Mind Towards The Infinite

Posted on April 12, 2018 by

–by Rabindranath Tagore (Apr 12, 2018) When we watch a girl trying to walk, we see her countless failures; her successes are but few. If we had to limit our observation within a narrow space of time, the sight would be cruel. … Continue reading →

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Don’t Just Resist, Return to Who You Are

Posted on March 28, 2018 by

–by Taiaiake Alfred (Mar 29, 2018) When we talk about colonization, we tend to think of brutally stolen land, racism, broken treaties, boarding schools. Those are things that happened. Those are the well-known things that shaped the relationship between Indigenous people and … Continue reading →

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No Hay Revolución Sin Evolución / There Is No Revolution Without Evolution

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

–por Victoria Santa Cruz (March 22, 2018) [English below] Entrevistador (E): Quisiera formularle una pregunta de carácter personal, porque creo que en este caso es importante. El hecho de ser mujer, el hecho de ser negra y el hecho de ser latinoamericana, y … Continue reading →

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The Organic and Harmonious Inter-Relation of Virtues

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

–by Nyanaponika Thera  (March 15, 2018) Unbounded love guards compassion against turning into partiality, prevents it from making discriminations by selecting and excluding and thus protects it from falling into partiality or aversion against the excluded side. Love imparts to equanimity its … Continue reading →

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