We do not only take care of ourselves by holding the line. We also take care of ourselves by shaping edges that allow for the right kinds of movement. Not everything and not indiscriminately. But enough.
Embarrassingly Straightforward
There is a quiet, almost mischievous simplicity running through so many of the great wisdom traditions, whether you wander through the teachings of Buddha or Jesus, sit with Laozi, or read someone like Jon Kabat-Zinn. Different languages, different metaphors, different rituals, and yet they keep pointing, again and again, to something almost embarrassingly straightforward.
Let This Be For . .
The Pedestal Problem: Are We Binding or Freeing?
The Body Has Joined the Chat
The Day the Monks Walked Through My Town
Watching the Walk For Peace monks was witnessing something that exists outside the usual accounting systems of success. No preaching or recruiting, no insistence that anyone believe anything at all. Just quiet presence. Step after step. Mile after mile. Through cold and rain and snow and ice. A moving invitation rather than an argument.
