Thoughts from Sangha

  The challenges of these days, life as it is given to us, calls us to seek refuge in a community of support, to find the 'islands of sanity'. I received a card in the process of my ordination into the order of Interbeing that simply said "this is it'. I put it on my altar this week. Aside from that memory at Estes park back in 2009, it took me back to an earlier memory, a meditation from the spiritual diary of Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary- General of the United Nations who tragically perished in a plane crash while on a peace keepig mission. Considered a spiritual classic. The theme which runs throughout Markings is that of "YES", a YES that emerges out of images of a deep struggle with darkness and the "IT" of life. He allows his deepest heart to seek a ground that anchors his purpose in life

During these darkest of times which we are now encountering, we too are being pushed back to the basics, to seek refuge to what anchors and grounds us.

What is helping us to go deeper into awareness, empowering us to be , in the Buddhist tradition, the enlightened ones, or in core Christianity, the sensitive responsive ones or followers of the way, or 'the righteous ones' in Jewish thought?

Taking refuge for me is to go deeper into the teachings of those who can show us another way in this life,the way of understanding, love and compassion and to be a part of a community that seeks to practice harmony, wisdom and awareness. A community that lives the 'YES" in the midst of the "IT"

What is the deepest challenge of the "IT" for you?

What is the deep work of your heart that is calling for a "YES'?

Thoughts as we learn and support each other on the journey. Namaste