Christy Lee Engle has posted a beautiful pair of quotes on sacred conversation. There is so much goodness in it that i republish it here for your edification.:
Peggy Holman recently posted a beautiful article called “Evolution, Process and Conversation: A Foundation for Conscious Evolutionary Agency” to the Open Space listserv, originally written for the Evolutionary Life e-magazine.
In it, she wonders/suggests:
“Could it be that consciousness is the latest evolutionary innovation that, when applied to conversation, catalyzes a new form of social system, the conscious co-creative collective, the radiant network of deep community? I believe that conscious conversation is the path to what Thich Nhat Hanh imagined when he said: “It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness, a community practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried out as a group, as a city, as a nation.” [Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha” in Inquiring Mind, Vol 10, No.2, Spring 1994]
which reminds me of a teaching I read a couple of years ago — a similar co-evolutionary idea in a different costume:
“‘Messiah’ in the original Hebrew is understood by the Kabbalists, quite astoundingly, to mean ‘conversation’. Master Nachum of Chernobyl, mystic and philosopher, points out that the Hebrew word for messiah, Mashiach, can be understood as the Hebrew word Ma-siach — Messiah, meaning ‘from dialogue’ or ‘of conversation.’ [Me’or Enayim, Parashat Pinchas] His assertion radically implies that the Messiah is potentially present in every human conversation — every mutual act of voice-giving.
All conversation is sacred. The ability to have an honest face-to-face talk in whihch both sides are true to themselves, vulnerable and powerful at the same time, is messianic. Simply put, sacred conversation is the vessel that receives the light of Messiah.”
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Ria Baeck
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I shot this photo yesterday, and it needs a caption. Feel free to click through to the flickr page and leave one in the comments.
Update: Siona wins:
Rover knew his liberty came at a cost, but it was worth it. He was his own dog. After years of oppression, he could get up on the furniture.
And he wanted to world to know.
[tags]free couch hellhound[/tags]
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Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world–biocentrism–revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical proces
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I was out and about today with three Danish friends of mine – my deep mate Toke and new friends Maja and Rowan from the Kaospilots. We spent the day wandering around Bowen Island taking some deeper teachings and lessons from the land. One of our conversations today was about energy in the Cirle, and how that is sustained. Toke picked a path through the woods alongside the Bridal Veil Falls on Kilarney Creek and we watched the water flowing in a pattern over the rocks. I took this photograph to show that a good process holds energy like the pattern of this waterfall. The water churns and billows in a constant pattern, but it is not the same water molecules travelling through the patern. Different water flowing in the container seeks the same stable pattern.
Good process is like this too. A Circle that is well held contains the flow of energy and allows that flow to pass through it.