"A million invisible helping hands" Drawing by Jaya From Bilal Qureshi's story on National Public Radio in the US, about Guerra and Gallego's film Birds of Passage: Amidst huge changes freighting a culture never previously colonized in Colombia, South America... "...it is the women ... who sense that something is wrong. The Wayúu are a matrilineal society, and in dream sequences and natural omens, only the women foretell the impending chaos. "One of the key omens are the

"Freedom" Saturday, 17 November, online--this weekend! 5:30-7 pm Spanish time Half an hour each of meditation, Dharma teachings, and dialog and inquiry. Have fun with meditation, silence, community, and the inner power that shakes us free from a pervasive sense of trouble and not-enoughness. Discovering the well of goodness in us, that comes forth not from demand and stress, but through enjoying a love of life and radical honesty. Email shahar@opendharma.org --with "17 N

Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or sacredness come from? Is it sacred because it comes out of the ultimate alaya? VCTR: You could say that. Ultimate alaya at least holds the potentialities of the whole thing. We could say that samsara came out of some kind of freedom. That is the basic logic of why anyone can attain enlightenment. RK: In meditation, is our approach to identify with

In preparing for the upcoming online courses, I started playing with a simple instruction: make a character from simple shapes like circles, squares, rectangles and/or triangles. And here came a little magician. #JayasArtwork

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