Here’s tonight’s talk from Kevin Hae Seong Sheridan
#zen #DharmaPractice

https://youtu.be/CG_sUSjKsJE

I have been doing this secular Buddhist thing for years now, and I made this graphic for someone on my Discord server and thought that maybe someone here could use it too.

When people say, "healing is not linear," the unalome is the image I use to remember that. It's about Enlightenment but applies more broadly, I think.

Near the bottom of the unalome, you begin. You run yourself in circles a bit, and your initial escape from that circling is actually a step DOWN. It is from there that you start climbing back up.

This isn't some "you have to hit rock bottom" shit because that's demonstrably not true. It's more like cleaning your house, and having to slog through the early stage where it actually feels messier than when you started.

You don't go straight up, though. You loop around and double back, but even when you are currently moving downward, you are still moving FORWARD.

It's only after you have looped around a bunch that you can turn your forward motion into consistent UPWARD motion.

Lots of these steps fucking suck, but in my experience you can't skip them. The fact that they suck does NOT mean you are somehow failing at personal growth or healing. It just means they feel shitty. Not all shitty feelings are a failure.

A Love Letter to Black, Indigenous & People of Colour: On Freeing Ourselves From Racist Priestesses, Fake Gurus & White Supremacist Spiritual Teachers

http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/love-letter-bipoc

#SelfHelp #Coaching #Spirituality #Wellness #WhiteFeminism #WhiteSupremacy #AntiBlackness #Indigenous #Pagan #WhiteFragility #Racism #MicroAggressions #Appropriation #Misogynoir #LawOfAttraction #DharmaPractice #Yoga

White women, don't be jerks about this. Nobody be jerks in our "defense" either. Let BIPOC have things.

#DailyMeds #Meditation #DharmaPractice

This one was about severing old patterns and breaking old connections that were formed under past conditions so that new ones can be made under better present ones. Obviously #trauma relevant, as with many of the ones I've sought out.

Don't know if I'll do this one again, just bc I find a lot of talk about "light" and "of the light" etc to be really distracting, but I think I probably still benefited from practicing anyway.

#DailyMeds #meditation #DharmaPractice

Listened to a short talk about how one of the reasons change is scary is because it means the current version of ourselves must be irretrievably lost. OK?

In another I got affirmation that I can always return to myself. lolwut. IMO this is why teaching basics like #anatta is important before unleashing the mixed messages. We can't recover what we were two minutes ago, & every moment changes us again. Watch Back to the Future & record your talks again ffs

#DharmaPractice #DailyMeds

Did a guided #meditation for anger. It's almost always easier to feel #anger (or a composite form like frustration) than an underlying thing like disappointment or despair, but I have to go down there sometimes or I won't know what's really going on.

Trying to stay in touch w my certainty that I can ride whatever emotional experiences come through (since I've certainly ridden them out so far) & w my confidence in my ability to improvise even if idk yet what to do.

People who are using #DailyMeds for #meditation needs: #zazen isn't always accessible for, say, #autistic people or ppl with physical differences that find stillness painful or otherwise just... not workable.

But I am pretty sure that I have some #ThichNhatHanh around here, with some sample #WalkingMeditation and #EatingMeditation options. If someone needs anything like that I can post them.