Hardcore Dharma Makes Metaphors
Thursday July 2, 2009
Categories: Everybody Hurts, Hardcore Dharma
Here's a story. My mother is a retired church organist and choir director. Growing up, my participation in religious life was fairly required. When I was about ten or eleven, the church had a charismatic youth minister, a wiry, fierce, Princeton-seminary-educated...
Filed Under: As I Lay Me Down, Cross Walk, Hugging and Teenagers, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Meditation, Nine Stages of Shamatha, Shamatha, Sophie B. Hawkins, Teenagers and hugging, Youth Groups
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I would never have guessed tristate-NY mainline white protestants actually did churchy stuff! or, like, existed, for that matter. growing up i knew like 2 . . . that's queens for ya.
Ski trips SO rocked. Especially the suburban Catholic school ones.
Seriously, the great 9th grade chicken pox epidemic started on a Catholic school ski trip I was on. I have the scar to prove it.
But let me practice right speech and leave it at that.
Chongyam Trungpa, Shambhala Buddhist biggie, compared mindfulness to skiing, too. And as a former avid skier, the analogy made sense to me.
HCD ski trip!!!!!!???
I would be totally down. Sports: the fourth door.
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Re I would never have guessed tristate-NY mainline white protestants actually did churchy stuff! or, like, existed, for that matter. growing up i knew like 2 . . . that's queens for ya.
I grew up and until very recently lived in Queens too. When people say they're from Georgia in Queens, they mean the country not the state. ☺ White protestants are like their own foreign subgroup to me, like Vietnamese, Columbian or Ukranians...except I actually had Vietnamese, Columbian and Ukranian friends when I was growing up. It's ironic that the dominant mainstream American cultural group is the one that us Queens people are least familiar with. Oh well. I just moved to Peru ☺ Not many White protestants here.
Julia, I had to tell you-- yesterday I was crossing a slightly overwhelmingly crowded crosswalk in Cambridge and all sorts of colors/people were flying across my field of vision. Almost immediately I repeated to myself, laughing: "You're just seeing, Julia." :)
Sarah, that's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Julia. I love the idea of floating into it, and finding that sweet spot between the rigid and the relaxed.
I'm doing the home listen from Seoul. Thank you for these weekly reads :)
(Also down for that ski trip. I'd even make the long journey for it!)
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