Hello friends,
The world spins faster these days.
I’m not writing metaphorically, read here.
Everything’s connected.
In a time of rapid unfolding, enfolding, expansion, contraction, Big History, deep self-reflection, we weave the new as the old forms noisily, recklessly dissolve.
Last month, I’d planned on doing meditations once a month, but decided against one this week, as I’m being reoriented and reorienting.
I’m grateful for this Big History, in every way imaginable.
When we started our collective COVID19 curriculum last spring, I posted an Imogen Heap video of the song ‘Let Go.’
Who could have guessed how these things would ripple, inside and out?
‘There’s beauty in the breakdown,’ as the song says.
But there are huge prices that we’re paying, and there’s enormous suffering in the world. I’m aware of my privilege here in Maine, existing relatively safe, and with my needs met.
For this reason, I am again posting the Buddhist metta prayer. I will say it out loud when I publish this entry. I invite you to join me, if you can, as there is something in the saying of a thing that moves it into the world.
If you can’t say it out loud, but can say it silently to yourself, that’s okay, because holding things in the heart changes us, and we get to choose what we hold.
Meditation, contemplation, stillness, prayer, and the myriad of artistic practices centered in Source give us greater and greater awareness of what we’ve held, what we hold, and the possibilities in better choices, better holding, while building brick by brick our better worlds.
I’ll meet you here again, the beginning of March, if not before.
Peace, gentle souls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7HAdBDkDpE
- My heart fills with with loving kindness. I love myself. May I be happy. May I be well. May I be peaceful. May I be free.
- May all beings in my vicinity be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings in my city be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings in my state be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings in my country be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings on my continent be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings in my hemisphere be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings on planet Earth be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May my parents be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all my friends be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all my enemies be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- May all beings in the Universe be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
- If I have hurt anyone, knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word or deed, I ask for their forgiveness.
- If anyone has hurt me, knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word or deed, I extend my forgiveness.
May all beings everywhere, whether near or far, whether known to me or unknown, be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.