Transformation on many levels is what living things are designed for by the creation. We are embodied souls, on earth to experience, learn, and develop through the body. Nothing is static. We don’t know how systems work until we start looking. In the system we are in, everything is a form of food. We have an obligation to serve the system and pay for our existence through what we take in and give out. We can take in more if we are “empty.” Creation can take care of its own transformation when we get out of our own way and allow the universe to move through us. The last act of life will be exhalation. We can learn to trust the process and exhale. A principle of ayurvedic medicine is to never inhibit natural discharges of the body. If we push down emotional “bears,” we will have trouble with them later. We can be addicted to our activities, emotions, and thoughts. Overabundance can lead to addiction if we define freedom as unlimited gratification. On the path, we have to relate to the bears in our lives, to all that we see as threatening. Relationship is part of the necessary blueprint to grow; we give and we receive. Sharing good company with a bear may be the best way to eat it. Our interaction with suffering can be useful or not depending on our strength of practice. We can transform suffering into compassion. Rare beings have offered unconditional love, teaching, and a way through life that we can aim for. The deeper the sorrow, the more joy we can contain. Our experiences send emotions as messengers. We do not accomplish transformation and the timing is not up to us, but we can allow ourselves to align with it. We can learn to live “full out” by meeting life openly. Jocelyn is a spiritual student, artist, therapist, mother, gardener, and builder whose main interest in life is growth, development, evolution, observing in awe and participating in the cyclic nature of life.
Panel Discussion: Exploring the Depth of Spiritual Tradition (Barbara Du Bois, Carl Grimsman, and Vijaya Fedorschak)
What’s Love, and What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Eternal Questions and Easy Misunderstandings (Regina Sara Ryan)
Contemplation: Awareness and Presence in Ordinary Life (Angelon Young)
The Transformative Power of Guarding One’s Speech (Bandhu Dunham)
Living Life with Gratitude (Debora Hogeland Celebucki)
Can’t Get There from Here: The Overlay of Mind on Reality (Bala Zuccarello)
Deepening Compassion in Times of Groundlessness, Uncertainty, and Fear (Nachama Greenwald)
Dig into the Mud to Get to the Sky (Karuna Fedorschak)
Cultivating the View that Everything is in Transit: A Consideration of Death in the Spiritual Traditions (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Wonder and Radical Amazement: Relearning the Forgotten Language of the Soul (Regina Sara Ryan)
The Tyranny of the Past (Angelon Young)
There is a Crack in Everything—That’s How the Light Gets In: The Myth of Self-Perfection (Matthew Files)
My Body is a Temple: Creating a Life of Practice (Christina Sell)
Be Kind, Be Generous, Be Tender-Hearted (Rick Lewis)
Neither Attracted nor Repelled—The Value of Cultivating Equanimity (Nachama Greenwald)
Following a Path with Heart—Reflections on Castaneda’s Literature (Karl Krumins)
Traps on the Path (Karuna Fedorschak)
Confirmation Bias (Bandhu Scott Dunham)
The Possibility of Inner Freedom through Recognizing Ego Insubstantiality (Vijaya Fedorschak)
Tantra and Ordinary Life (Angelon Young)
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