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Champa Choga / Clif
I live in Portland, Oregon
I’m most grateful for my practice, study of the Dharma, and moments of sanity.
I’d like to change whatever inner turmoil, judgments, small-mindedness arises to calm abiding and equanimity.Books
The Heart of The Buddha’s Teachings, Thich Nhat Hanh
Shambhala: the Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Who Do We Choose to Be, Margaret WheatleyRecordings
I have arrived, I am home…,Thich Nhat Hanh
Shambhala Warrior Training, Cynthia Kneen
How We Live is How we Die, Pema Chödrön -
Greetings,
Janine, bowing in from Wilders, NC and upstate NY. I am grateful for the opportunity to settle and grow, cultivate peace in the here and now. My intention is to look deeply at where I am at, how I am being, the conditions I am in and develop a supportive path.
Books I appreciate currently: Braiding Sweetgrass, The Daily Stoic, The Art of Living
Recordings I return to, all found on the Plum Village Ap: Out of the Prison of the Past and Future, The Body of the Cosmos, Knowing We Have Enough
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My name is Kate Wolfe-Jenson. I live in Minneapolis Minnesota about 40 meters from the Mississippi River. I am most grateful for my friends, who are an encouraging and loving presence in my life.
What I hope to change: I want to imagine – and put in place – a daily (or weekly, monthly) routine that supports me spiritually. I feel like a vine that needs a trellis to flourish.
My practice is steady. Some days it’s great. I think “I know what I need to do to keep my mind from wandering!” The next day, my mind may be scrambling all over. I am guessing that is normal.
Now the hard part:
Important Books (or maybe this is beloved too): Healing Into Life and Death by Stephen Levine, Devotions by Mary Oliver, Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
beloved recordings: Inspired by Bach by Yo-Yo Ma, Cinema Paradiso by Chris Botti, The Secret of Life by James Taylor -
Hello! I’m Rachel Moscato and I live in Silver Spring, Maryland. I am most grateful to be here, in this course, and for my two dogs who remind me daily that sometimes all you need is a nice long walk or nap :).
My practice is my favorite part of my day and has been a consistent part of my life for several years now. However, it has been more recently that I have started to explore my practice, and my understanding of the Buddha dharma, more deeply. I’m hoping to reflect more on how I am navigating these times and how I can be a support to my friends, my family and my team.
Books that are important to me – anything of Mary Oliver’s (I am currently reading Blue Horses), Man’s Search for Meaning, and When Things Fall Apart.
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Hello, my name is Barbara and I live in Portland, Oregon. Before moving here in 2018, I lived my whole life in Michigan.
I am a retired attorney and have always been a seeker. I did some transcendental meditation in college, and practice Reiki regularly, but am a beginner in Buddhist meditation practice.
What I hope to change: I want to walk through the world more easily.A couple of books I am currently enjoying:
Forty Days on Being a Two (Enneagram Daily Reflections)
Zen Shorts by Jon Muth -
Hi Y’all,
I’m Kellie Schorr from New Kent, Virginia. Right now I”m most grateful for time and treasure that allows me to do this. I hope to change my ability to be more bold about my lean toward mysticism. My practice is very steady. I am a Ngakpa (yogi) in the Tibetan tradition and daily practice is a big part of my life.
3 Most Important Books: Time and the Art of Living, by Robert Grudin, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, and The Grace of Aging by Kathleen Dowling Signh
Excited to share this space and time with you!
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Hello, everyone, I’m Jamie Evans.
I live in lovely Lincoln Square, Chicago via Liverpool
Currently feeling grateful for protesters, my students, my kids and my amazing, hilarious grandson.
I hope to change myself.
It’s going ok but I really need to deepen my practice. I want to enlarge my spiritual life.
I love narrative fiction.. been reading a lot of Irish authors lately, Kevin Barry, Niall Williams, Claire Keegan.. how are there so many great Irish writers? Also The Buddhist Enneagram, by you know who. Absolutely brilliant and the reason I found OHP. I need to reread it.Three most beloved recordings – anything by Coltrane, Dr. John, the Meters, Charlie Parker. Yeah, that’s way more than three.
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Hi meditators and friends on the path to self-knowing,
I am Jo Brody, long time resident of Portland Oregon by way of Taos, NM and before that, Massachusetts).
How beautiful it is to finally have a loose and lovely Sangha! Thank you universe for leading me to Susan and to you all.
I am so grateful to have found the centering, challenging and juicy practice of drawing, painting, (and art-making in nearly every media) 15 years ago in my mid- 40’s and my love for the practice is abiding.
I have been meditating off and on for years but it’s been a challenge to make it a daily practice and that is something I hope to change and learn to devote myself to it with the same dedication I have to my art practice.
This short course on Inexplicable Magic (I am a sucker for magic of any kind!) has been helping my practice become more regular and I love the foundational, practical focus of the work especially here at the beginning.Three beloved books: (I love seeing everyone else’s answers to all these prompts but especially to these final two questions):
-Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act(i am listening to it)
-Thich Nhat Hanh’s No Mud No Lotus(I have most of his books but this one is really helpful right now)
-All of Jean Shinoda Bolen’s books but I have read Crossing to Avalon at least three times
Three beloved recordings:
-My son Eliot’s cover of Dylan’s Ring Them Bells
-Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life esp. Love’s in Need of Love Today
-Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece(all of his records but this one will come to my desert island)
Looking forward to “meeting” more of you soon!
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