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DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of retraining your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. [...]

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Dharma art

I wish to urge students of the dharma who may have forsaken their creative impulse in favor of practice to realize there is no conflict between creativity and meditation. Creativity can be understood, in essence, to be the practice of our own nature and that nature’s expression. You may find your way in to the [...]

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This FWA hits even closer to home than usual

When Dante was nine years old, long before he became one of Italy’s supreme poets, he fell in love with Beatrice, an eight-year-old girl he met at a May Day party. They never had a close relationship. In the years after their initial encounter, they met infrequently, and both eventually married other people. But Beatrice [...]

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The spirit of bodhicitta

…Although your achievement of the omniscient state may not be beneficial to all living beings, it will definitely bring a lot of practical benefit to certain living beings. Therefore, it is very important that you work for your own achievement of the completely enlightened state. Because there might be living beings who depend very much [...]

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Dewdrops on a lotus leaf

How is my karma related to the brush and inkstone?
Over and over I write and write.
The only one who really knows the reason
Is the Great Hero Buddha.
The wind has settled, the blossoms have fallen;
Birds sing, the mountains grow dark–
This is the wondrous power of Buddhism.
My legacy–
What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the [...]

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Earth Day

I had nothing profound to say about Earth Day, though it has been in my thoughts; one can only quote Mary Oliver so many times. *g*
Then William Harryman gave me the perfect image, with a modicum of words: This is our Earth.
I can also quote Julian of Norwich: “And he showed me a [...]

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In spite of which, we call this Friday "good"

Good Friday presents us with a stark duality—human power revealed as hostile to meaning and hope, and divine meaning and hope exposed as completely vulnerable to human power….
… that silence is the beginning of a global renewal: it is the darkness in which God is allowed to be God, in which the world, descending into [...]

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I would use the terms Novice, Adept, Master

… Three general stages of spirituality are Initiate, Adept, and Priest. These roughly
correspond to Apprentice, Journeyman and Master in the guild system.
Prior to the Initiate stage, a person experiences a discontent with common religious or philosophical systems. They do not speak to the person’s own Inner experiences, and so the Seeker begins self-knowledge by exploring [...]

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Words of good counsel

I came back from lunch to find this entry on Livejournal from Feri witch Thorn Coyle:
Note to Self:
Do not believe anything – even personal revelation – that you have not brought into your practice.
Do not believe anything – even sacred text – that you have not brought into your practice.
Practice changes us. Practice gives us [...]

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Remembering Little Gidding

Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.
And glow [...]

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