Responses to the 2016 US Presidential Election
First Response : Calling Your Soul Home
November 9, 2016
Since many of us are feeling stunned and ripped apart right now, and since we've been presented with something of a black box - no one really knows what's about to occur - it's important to pause a moment.
Since many of us are feeling stunned and ripped apart right now, and since we've been presented with something of a black box - no one really knows what's about to occur - it's important to pause a moment.
Second Response : The Revenge of Kindness
November 10, 2016
Tuesday's election has passed, but every day we have a new choice about what ballot we cast, upon the waters, into the air, to wrap around the shoulders of our sisters and brothers...
Tuesday's election has passed, but every day we have a new choice about what ballot we cast, upon the waters, into the air, to wrap around the shoulders of our sisters and brothers...
Third Response : Balancing the Monsters of Love
November 11, 2016
The ground is going to be unsteady for awhile now. There will be comings and goings, things that slam shut and some that break open. Ghosts and tremors and tears that surprise. Strange dreams and unexpected resolve...
The ground is going to be unsteady for awhile now. There will be comings and goings, things that slam shut and some that break open. Ghosts and tremors and tears that surprise. Strange dreams and unexpected resolve...
Fourth Response :
November 12, 2016
Some have said that they felt as though something died with the election. If that's true for you, you could do a ceremony of turning that ghost into an ancestor.
Some have said that they felt as though something died with the election. If that's true for you, you could do a ceremony of turning that ghost into an ancestor.
Fifth Response : Please Try Not To Cope
November 14, 2016
When the initial numbness starts to wear off, it's so very human to cast about for ways to cope. As understandable as that is, here's a counter-suggestion : Don't cope...
When the initial numbness starts to wear off, it's so very human to cast about for ways to cope. As understandable as that is, here's a counter-suggestion : Don't cope...
Sixth Response :
Unprecedented times are what the koan way is made for. It's a Dharma of courage and fierce steadiness, creative generosity and kindness - and it will help us navigate whatever comes.
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Seventh Response : We Are All Ancestors Now
December 3, 2016
Let's provisionally consider that we're in the midst of a disaster. Let's put a pause on fighting with life for being life, accepting instead Auden's notion of the disobedience of the daydream. Let's see if that frees up some energy for other things. Like asking who we are now, in this new age...
Let's provisionally consider that we're in the midst of a disaster. Let's put a pause on fighting with life for being life, accepting instead Auden's notion of the disobedience of the daydream. Let's see if that frees up some energy for other things. Like asking who we are now, in this new age...
