Aspects of Interbeing

20 Jun, 2018
The insight of inter-being will help remove discrimination, fear, and the dualistic way of thinking. We inter-are — even suffering and happiness inter-are — and that is why the insight of ...

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

~ Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Video: A Story of Interbeing

 

The Five Mindfulness Trainings

16 Jul, 2017
The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are a concrete expression of the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble ...

Interbeing Nature of the Four Immeasurable Minds

18 Oct, 2016
For love to be true love, it must contain compassion, joy, and equanimity. For compassion to be true compassion, it has to have love, joy, and equanimity in it. True joy ...

Interbeing – Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings

15 Oct, 2016
When individuals becoming members of the organization, they take the vows of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings in a formal ceremony. The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings are the very essence of the Order ...

Richard Rohr on Interbeing

13 Oct, 2016
“… God is more a verb than a noun: God is three “relations,” which of itself is mind-boggling for most believers. Yet it opens up an honest notion of God as ...

A Vision of Beloved Community

23 Sep, 2016
My engagement in the world is fueled by a vision of beloved community. A society who appreciates that people possess an abundance of creativity, talent, initiative, energy, and resourcefulness to serve ...

Interbeing: Precepts and Practices of an Applied Ecology

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NonViolence

30 Jul, 2016
CHAPTER 13 THICH NHAT HANH Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 – ) was born and raised in Vietnam. As a young man, he became a Buddhist monk. When Vietnam was gripped by ...

Plant a kernel of corn

30 Jul, 2016
Suppose you plant a kernel of corn and seven days later it sprouts and begins to take the form of a corn stalk. When the stalk grows high, you may not ...