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Anchorhold: Slow Learner
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. It's only taken me. The better part of twenty years. To learn I have to let watercolour dry. Before I add an overglaze. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Four Days in August: The Stonesong Retreat. Please consider joining a group of spiritually and erotically alive men for four sweet days of intentional community, August 18-21. (Scroll down to the March 17, 2016 post for more information.). View my complete profile. Why We Need Ritual. Marking off the Sacred. Sunfire's Weblog...
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Anchorhold: Heart Circle
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Thursday, February 19, 2015. But as for the Heart Circle, memory doesn't feel like enough this morning. I find myself longing to sit daily among companions who weave a safe, sacred container for one another, to go on living among those unafraid to access the soft, tender vulnerability that is the working of an enlightened heart, as Buddhist teacher Pema Ch. N reminds us. I want this as an ongoing practice in my life. March 2, 2015 at 9:59 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Anchorhold: Angels Ascending and Descending
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Thursday, January 1, 2015. Angels Ascending and Descending. I didn't make it to Midnight Mass this Christmas Eve, nor to a service on Christmas morning. The weather, my energy level, the crush of social obligations all factored in. But the day after Christmas, I accompanied a friend to the chapel at the long-term care facility where she lives. She's a remarkable woman- a member of a well-known and very wealthy English family who as a young woman immigrated to Canada to work as a nurse,. If that's true of...
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Anchorhold: The Wisdom of Darkness
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Saturday, December 20, 2014. The Wisdom of Darkness. You might not expect to find deep wisdom for these sacred nights on the Op-Ed page of today's. But here it is:. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/opinion/why-we-need-the-winter-solstice.html. In his column there this morning, Clark Strand wrote:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Four Days in August: The Stonesong Retreat. View my complete profile. Why We Need Ritual. Marking off the Sacred. Creating a Personal Altar. It's part of my calling to offer...
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Anchorhold: Fire
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We can live without it, but just barely. In our high-tech culture, we easily lose daily awareness of it: the furnace goes off and on in the basement without our thinking about it. But just wait for the power to go out. It burns at the border between nature and culture, a force we harnessed before the dawn of history–except for the many times when it gets the better of us. Devotees in Hindu temples pass their hands over the cool flames of the. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Steve Br...
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Anchorhold: Sangha
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Monday, April 27, 2015. A collection of dharma talks he gave during the Christmas season- a major annual celebration at Plum Village. I was fortunate and blessed to spend. Today I feel a slight undertow of anxiety that the joy I experienced so much of last week may slip away and leave me wondering, "What was that? The deep, unproblematic affection I shared with the straight men with whom I developed friendships. But on the other, I'm aware of my resistance. The bustle of busy streets. And then there's se...
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Anchorhold: Not a Clue
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015. It's beyond me to comprehend fully what was happening while I lay on a futon for two blissed-out hours Sunday afternoon. If you're lucky enough- actually, make that blessed enough- to know a really gifted masseur, you'll have some idea of what I'm going to try to express. I could try to assemble some kind of connected narrative description out of the raw material of my experience. But. The words would just disappear into the gulf between language and the body's deep wisdom.
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Anchorhold: Metropolis
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Saturday afternoon, in the middle of a downtown shopping errand, I turned at the greeting of a friend and her daughter. A few minutes later, as our unexpected encounter ended, my day felt transformed. Blanche is my long-time colleague at work. She also lives just a few blocks down the street. Look-alike in the beret who plays French-style accordion at the end of the main aisle didn't show. Sometimes I run into people I know; sometimes not. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Anchorhold: Seen and Unseen
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Thursday, February 12, 2015. On the same granola hipster corner in Portland as last night,. The thin bearded boy seated on the sidewalk next to his dog,. Diffident, not quite meeting your gaze. His sign speaks for him:. Namaste. Remember that you are loved and beautiful.". His surprise at being addressed;. His startled pressing of palm to palm as he bows from the waist. His longing to reach out. His fear of reaching out. The story of his life that you don't know,. You gave him a dollar and walked on.
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Anchorhold: Silence
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On the radio, they call it “dead air.” Dead, because we’re dead to the life in it. It’s not the opposite of human speech. It’s the luminous ground that gives all speech its meaning. We lapse into it because words fail us when we greet the Mystery of our lives. Christian monks keep the Great Silence, renouncing speech between the last prayers of evening and the first service of the following morning, the better to hear the unsaid and unsayable. It’s the essential precondition of sitting meditation. Please...
