Category: General
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Becoming Mindset vs Accepting Mindset
For this stress comes into play in dependence on every acquisition. With the ending of every clinging/sustenance, there’s no stress coming into play. Look at this world: Beings, afflicted with thick ignorance, are unreleased from passion for what has come to be. All levels of becoming, anywhere, in any way, are inconstant, stressful, subject to…
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I don’t express anger because I don’t want to feel disappointed.
I’ve been working on how to hold intensity in my experience, particularly in my body. If I had to bet, I believe this is a key component across many fields: Sexual orgasmic pleasure. Holding anger at others. Ability to access jhana states in meditation. etc. Whatever experience we cannot consciously experience gets repressed, diffused, or…
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CircleAnywhere LevelUP Local Immersion @ Monastic Academy February 2022 Reflections
Recently, I participated in a four day immersion of the CircleAnywhere LevelUP Local taught by Mike Blas & Jordan Myska Allen. The Monastic Academy hosted the event. I loved it. I felt the ground shifting under me each day. I saw small insights about my personality and behavior. The tensions in leadership of caring for…
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Xūramitra New Dharma Lay Ordained Name
Recently, I took lay ordination at the Monastic Academy (MAPLE) under the head teacher Soryu Forall and Shinzen Young. We took the vows in an evening ceremony lasting a little over an hour with six others taking ordination as well. Shinzen video conferenced in from his home out in Arizona. Lay ordination means to take…
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Why don’t we have more leaders?
So, we continue our series on Leadership. In the first post, we defined Leadership as the skill of power to bring individuals together towards a vision. We defined different forms of leadership and argued that the best leadership power involves earning the respect of your followers rather than only relying on delegated power derived from…