Inquiry, one of our six Ways to Meditate, is the practice of using a question as a prompt for discovery. In Inquiry meditation we open to the groundlessness of reality, into intimacy with all that is. The questions we work with bring us deeper into a space of radical curiosity. Out of that space new possibilities arise for deepening our embodied wisdom, compassion, and action. Led by Ryan Oelke.
Noteworthy 
2017 -
Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day. It is celebrated on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation, and love towards women for women's economic, political, and social achievements. The original International Women's Day started as a Socialist political event event, the holiday blended the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, especially those in the Soviet Bloc. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for people to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. Some people celebrate the day by wearing purple ribbons. Because, you know, it isn’t a thing until you have a ribbon. | ||
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Much
like a cloud that hides the warming brilliance of the sun, the
superficial dimension of the mind conceals the mind’s deeper
possibilities. It is the superficiality of this conventional dimension
of mind, as well as the deeper possibilities that exist beneath this
dimension, that the process of meditation works to expose and reveal.
Will Johnson, “How to Sit—And Why It Matters”
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A
closed mind causes separation and suspicion. Like an umbrella, a mind
is only useful when it is open. The first step toward maintaining an
open mind is to understand the nature of mind or self.
Gerry Shishin Wick Sensei, “Zen in the Workplace”
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GLENN GREENWALD is an American lawyer, journalist and author born on this date. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator.
At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest and In These Times. In 2014 he became, along with Laura Poitrasand and Jeremy Scahill, one of the founding editors of The Intercept.
Greenwald was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013" and The Advocate named him as one of the "50 Most Influential LGBT Persons in 2014".
Four of the five books he has written have been on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Greenwald is a frequent speaker on college campuses, including Harvard Law, Yale Law, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UCLA School of Law and the University of Wisconsin. He frequently appears on various radio and television programs.
In June 2013 Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British global surveillance programs, based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. The series on which Greenwald worked, along with others, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
His reporting on the National Security Agency (NSA) won numerous other awards around the world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting, the 2013 Online Journalism Awards, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting in Brazil for his articles in O Globo on NSA mass surveillance of Brazilians (becoming the first foreigner to win the award), the 2013 Libertad de Expresion Internacional award from Argentinian magazine Perfil, and the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Greenwald lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the hometown of his partner, David Michael Miranda. Greenwald has said his residence in Brazil was the result of an American law, the Defense of Marriage Act, barring federal recognition of same-sex marriages, which prevented his partner from receiving a visa to reside in the United States with him.
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Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
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Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga are usually grouped together, because Karma
Yoga really is serving others as a way of serving God. You serve others
as a way of putting flowers at the feet of God, honoring God, and so
doing your ‘seva,’ or service, becomes a technique of doing this.
So doing your ‘seva’, your service, can work in a devotional sense,
where you are consciously considering your action as an offering,
saying, “This is my Karma Yoga, I am doing this now as service to you,
as an offering to God, and it’s work on myself.”
Or, I can do it from a meditative point of view called “meditation in action;” discussed in Trungpa Rinpoche’s book Meditation In Action.
In this instance, when I am washing a pot, I don’t wash the pot as an
offering to God, I just come into the process of washing the pot until
I’m fully in the moment, and I quiet my mind into washing the pot until
there is just “washing of the pot-ness,” and that is also Karma Yoga.
Once you are starting to awaken, you look around for practices to purify
and help awaken. Most people see meditation as this practice. It’s a
clear and simple yoga, and you say, “Well, while I do yoga, I do my
meditation, and then I go to work, or then I live life, or then I’m
gonna do good or something like that.”
Karma Yoga is taking all of the “good or something” that you are going
to do after your meditation, and making it into an offering and practice
for awakening.
So it’s a perspective, an attitude of offering and seeing how the
actions you are performing are much more than the actions themselves.
- Ram Dass
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Sometimes
as Buddhists, we can develop an orientation that somehow we need to go
beyond our sense of self or get rid of it. But I’d say the process is
more about discovering through inquiry how the sense of self arises.
Laura Bridgman, “Seeing the Emptiness of Self”
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If
we start from this knowledge of wholeness as already possible,
returning to wholeness—like coming back to that point in the body or
breath—is a supportive way to frame how we can aim our practice, this
investigation of harm and harming, or hurt and suffering.
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt, “Returning to Wholeness”
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