We are living within and as a sea change. For most of us, our previous anchors of well-being (“normal,” “expected,” and “counted-on”) are being dis-lodged.
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What if we open – radically open – our minds and hearts to listening, learning, and loving ecosystems (beings of relationships) with all their players, forms, and ways of living? What if we let the clouds of our assumptions, reductionism, and materialism part so that we could see into a field of greater possibilities?
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While still known as Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, there is an emergence of a new and evolutionary being – a very different form of MBMS or, for that matter, any meditation studio or most-any anything. This MBMS is not so much an organization; it is more of an organism.
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My world -- and my molecules -- have been re-arranging. The rhythm, content, focus, and meaning of my days (and nights) have changed dramatically. At the same time, at a deeper level, these periods of relating to myself and all beings have emerged with more clarity, dedication, and engagement.
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Discover and experience the ever-present access that you have to guidance and teachings within and all around you. This wisdom is essential in navigating the waters of uncertainty and change.
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My sense is that there is some very active thresholding happening personally and collectively. My sense is that pausing would be a very wise move.
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Through recent science, we now know that we are part of a personal, collective, and universal creative process – laying tracks and increasing probabilities for what emerges in the future. What- we-do and how-we-are-being matters far beyond our personal realm.
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Two weeks ago, I experienced an up-close-and-personal journey into accessing my capacity for paradoxical being – having the ability to feel ease in contrasts, to feel unconditionally alive and engaged.
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It seems that many of us, particularly in the Western world’s culture of Modernity, have forgotten that, like the trees in the forest, we are part of a vast ecosystem.
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As we are frantically searching for answers and solutions for current personal and global crises, I wonder if we missed an important step … What if the answers are not in the answers but are in the questions?
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As we are frantically searching for answers and solutions for current personal and global crises, I wonder if we missed an important step … What if the answers are not in the answers but are in the questions?
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What has me intrigued is that, in the quantum world, it’s all about relationships, possibilities, and infinite potential. These three foundations seem, to me, to be particularly pertinent as we are living in this time of major transformation
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As the frequency and intensity of change and the reality of uncertainty continue to increase in this time of transformation, I find myself asking more questions, listening deeper, and appreciating awareness and kindness at a whole new level.
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Being in conscious relationship takes courage, ignites curiosity, and opens the pathway to re-member belonging to a world much larger than our individual self. Whether the focus is conscious relationship with ourselves or with another being (human or more-than-human), fully opening to being together offers healing and transformation.
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Wherever you are on this journey, there is a pathway calling you. As you travel, you might have a sense of entanglement – that the Pathways intersect, weave together, and sometimes lie in parallel lines touching the same scenery from different perspectives.
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Last Sunday, Monterey Bay Meditation Studio celebrated 6 years of Being Aware and Being Kind in community! The years have brought inspiration, learning, and changes aplenty, and we arrive in 2022 with gratitude.
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As we, in the Northern Hemisphere, enter into the long, dark nights of winter, I find myself in a contemplative mode. My energy is slowing down, after a very full and fulfilling autumn. I’m wanting to rest, read and reflect on my year … and years. I find myself gazing at stars and sleeping in the light of the moon. I’m holding a paradox of excitement and sadness. I’m feeling very, very human … and very alive.
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Topophilia (coined by Yi-Fu Tuan) means love of place– our mental, emotional, cognitive (and, I would add, spiritual) bonds to our surrounding environment. Biophilia is our “urge to affiliate with other forms of life” (E.O.Wilson). These inherent loves are wired right into us, as human beings on earth. So when we are separated from the land and all its beings, there is just something missing. Have you felt this – a sense of malaise, a deep longing, an unnamable sadness or loneliness?
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Coming to terms with the complexity and the immensity of the current global and environmental changes calls us to realize our connection – to discover ourselves as a tree in a forest, as a drop in an ocean, in order to sense the larger system of which we are part. In whatever way you are experiencing and processing all that is happening in the world, you are not alone. None of us is alone if we let ourselves be together.
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A couple of weeks ago, I returned from vacation— a blend of car-camping, hiking, and backpacking where I was fortunate to spend most or all of every day outdoors. I was fortunate in this, and I was intentional. This trip was big for me: like many of us, a trip away from home is more special and rare now than it has ever been — we treasure times away and plan them with care… and we hold plans lightly because we have seen them change in the blink of an eye.
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