Yearly Archives: 2019

Practice, Path, Goal

Linked from Wholeness and Integration  and Stage 5. Early adulthood – The Soul Apprentice at the Wellspring

Practice

Focus on presence

Relax into presence

Mind training (Lojong)

Daily vows

Mantra crystals

Path

The sacred path of intimate relationship with my wife of 42  years

Individuation on the Bodhisattva path

The great way that opens after the local way

Goal

To dissolve the illusory separations between my heart-mind, other beings, and the world.

To contribute to the emergence of an Ecological Civilization.

Task (Plotkin’s Stage 7 – Early Elderhood)

Caring for the soul  of the more-than-human community

Koan

Shifting from: What is the shift of consciousness necessary to reverse the global eco-catastrophe?

To: What is the unique thread that life is asking you to weave in the Web of Meaning?

Currently: As a bodhisattva activist, participate in online communities dedicated to creating an ecological civilization.

 

To understand the bodhisattva’s path as a psychological journey of individuation

Linked from Practice, Path, Goal,  What is my practice? and Rob Preece

I felt the tectonic plates shifting from Rosie’s [retirement] announcement and fell through the crack into a pitch black mindset. I very quickly realized that I have options. I started with the question “What is my practice?”

I made this note

Path
Primary: Bodhisattva Path
Secondary: Individuation (Jungian)
Background: Gebser’s Integral
Background: The great way of no path after the local path

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