This week I’m running the lastest episode of a series I’m calling “My Boss is a Zen Priest” – so my boss is SDI’s Executive Director, Reverend Seifu Anil Singh-Molares. He’s my manager and he provides oversight on the things I’m working on, and he’s also an ordained priest in the Zen Buddhist tradition. We have weekly one-on-one check in meetings, where I tell him about the things I’m working on, and he provides feedback and insight. And because we work at SDI and my boss is a zen priest, that feedback and insight often delves into deep dives around spirituality.
In this conversation we talk about our most recent publication of Listen – a digital publication that you can read on our website, sdiworld.org – and the inspiration for Rev. Seifu’s article, and my illustrations, on the concept of metamorphosis.
As you listen to this conversation, and all the metaphors we contemplate as descriptors for the spiritual journey, I invite you to reflect on this point in your own journey, and how you might define it.
As you reflect on your own sacred story, and yes your own story is indeed sacred, what are some metaphors you would use to tell this story? What’s in that cocoon of yours right now, being combusted? I invite you to journal on these questions, and share with a spiritual companion.
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Support for this podcast comes from Spiritual Companionship For Our Times, SDI’s annual gathering of spiritual companions happening in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 23 – 26 2020. Registrations are now open, with Super Early Bird pricing through September 15th. We’ll be celebrating SDI’s 30th Anniversary, and charting the road ahead as we seek to welcome more and more people to the transformational gifts of spiritual companionship, and to make this healing modality available to every person on the planet.
Learn more now about our annual conference at www.sdievents.org.
EP064 - The Paradox of Showing Up, and Letting Go, as a Spiritual Companion - Brian Plachta
BONUS - My Boss is a Zen Priest (and an amazing guitar player!)
EP063 - Walking as Spiritual Companionship (Pilgrimage in Place)
EP062 - Listen to our Discover March Newsletter
EP061 - Bonus Podcast - Spiritual Companionship For Urgent Times
EP060 - My Boss is a Zen Priest - On Silence and Meditation
EP059 - A Day in the Life of a Cancer Care Chaplain - Taqwa Surapati
EP058 - The Crisis of Relationship - Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining)
EP057 - Companioning with Death and the Dying - Eric Massanari - Part 2
EP056 - The Practice of Curiosity in Spiritual Companionship - Eric Massanari - Part 1
EP055 - Examen the Play Dough - Nancy Shadlock, MA
EP054 - Counseling Communities through Mass Tragedy - Rabbi Carla Howard
EP053 - Gender Equity and Reconciliation - Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin
EP052 - Spiritual Practices of Sufi Islam - Azra Rahim
EP051 - Technology, Contemplation, and Interspirituality - Jeff Genung, Kate Sheehan Roach, and Brother Wayne Teasdale (!!)
EP050 - Art, Creativity, and Spiritual Companionship - Matt Whitney
EP049 - 2019 Highlights of SDI Encounters
EP048 - Support and Participate in Our Public Square of Spiritual Companionship
EP047 - Connection with the Living World through Animals and Art - Straja Linder King and Madeline Rugh
EP046 - Roleplaying Games as Spiritual Companionship - Rabbi Menachem Cohen
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