dharma teacher sister

sister auspicious cultivation of the heart, one of my dharma bodhi-buddy teachers and friends along this endless joyful path of mindfulness concentration insight :-) WRITES...

as for composting, i think it has a lot to do with our agency and power to create our lives. we are not passive. we are not victims. we have the power to make and re-make, create and re-create. composting is about flipping the script. about not always being in conditions of our making but surviving them by healing through difficult moments. we heal through those moments in innumerable ways - by being present, by breathing, by not holding on to poison but letting it go or turning it into medicine, by recognizing our suffering as a grounds for coalition building and heartgrowing, by seeing how events throw into motion a whole sequence of other events that are full of unintended and unexpected consequences that are often more powerful than anyone would have imagine. for example, as brother "tin man" from the denver day of mindfulness shared in our dharma discussion, if it wasn't for the vietnam war, thay would never have spread his dharma the way that he did, we would not be practicing in this way, and western buddhism would have a much different shape. unexpected and unintended consequences. in other words, poetry.