Lighting a path to freedom by sharing meditation, mindfulness, ethics, compassion, and Buddhist practices with people who are impacted by incarceration.
“My dad had been imprisoned. My uncle…we’re Columbians-there’s a lot of that.” 😂 I’m definitely stealing this line. Humor is the best form of medicine, at least according to Readers Digest
…””We have an empty chair for you”. “Don’t live in the past, look in the future and then chase after it at full speed!”. “There are people out here like me who love you.” Beautiful, heartfelt wisdom and words from my brothers and sisters at Boundless Freedom Project. This retreat changed my life and deepened my practice🙏🏾♥️. I so look forward to the next one and greeting, loving, honoring and connecting with the many new people who come home! Stay hopeful. We love you.💛
You mention Ven Analayo using the term "feel the sting" and that phrase resonated with me from the first time I heard him use it. Tool has a song "Invincible" which deals with having that youthful feeling of being bullet proof / immortal worn away with aging. The referain is: Tears in my eyes Chasing Ponce de Leon's phantoms So filled with hope I can taste mythical fountains False hope, perhaps But the truth never got in my way Before now, feel the sting Feeling time bearing down
Im proud of you for taking the step and making this video. Thank you 4 sharing your story. God has his hand on you. I'm so proud of you. Keep on the path and you will move mountains.
Beyond heartening🙏🏾‼️ However, Rich’s response touched me the most because he was so childlike and giddy, trying to put into words his feelings from the retreat. His enthusiasm and love for all is so beautiful & contagious.
Bruce and Jill really helped to change my life🌄 which inevitably lead to my release from a life sentence 👍They are the real deal and their positive energy is contagious 😊
"Why You're Not a Self Improvement Project" Agreed. I don't identify as a Project. I'm a conscious being inside a human form that's chosen to self-improve all the self-judged elements of my being that require healing, removal or development. As Buddha once said... "If you want to follow me to freedom, be prepared to swim upstream, against the river of conditioning. Be prepared to grapple continuously with the fierce flow of negative mental currents. In time our strokes will become effortless and our sense of purpose irresistible." - Buddha ..which looks to me like an element of a self-improvement journey, and I appreciate his insights and wisdom, and of other folks past and present that I utilise on my Know Thyself journey of healing and development, aka, self-improvement.
@@googleuser9624 "It's a non-self improvement journey." Difference of opinion regarding personal journeys. "We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path." - Paulo Coelho "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - H. Jackson Brown Jr. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau I've zero use for the philosphy this bloke aligns with. "It's growth mindset. . ." Which, to me, is just another way of saying 'self-improvement'. ". . . realizing that your negative qualities aren't really you or yours." That seems like denial to me, avoiding aspects of oneself...thus I wonder what suffering one experiences when observing these negative aspects, that then indfluences one to avoid and deny, instead of acknowledge and resolve. From my experiences, denying my imperfections has never benefitted me, but when I acknowledge a mistake, weakness, flaw\dysfunction (all self judged, and many created from soul wounds from past difficult experiences), only then am I able to do something about them... - to learn why the mistake occurred and develop skills and knowledge to not repeat them. - to do what's necessary to strengthen the weaker parts of my being. - to understand how a flaw\dysfunction developed in my being, and thus figure out how to resolve it and replace it with beneficial responses\behaviour. - same with soul wounds, this time applying developing self-love (compassionate understanding) as I heal the damage to my being, the results from difficult experiences. I no longer condemn myself for being imperfect, no longer ashamed when I don't live up to my own ideals, rather, from undertanding humans are imperfect thus it's a natural state, I also learnt that I can make improvements, to be better than I was yesterday...and appreciate my developing proactive attitude, instead of the self-destructive one I had. I've zero use for any ideology that seeks to denigrate or destroy individuality, including beliefs systems that seek to control people and corral them into a herd mentality.
Earlier today I listened to an audio lecture by Dr. Douglas Gentile, (a Zen Buddhist and Developmental Psychologist) in which he asserts that the purpose of meditation is self-insight leading to personal growth. This video certainly confirms the truth of that proposition. Best wishes to you Oscar, "May you be at peace, May your heart remain open, May you awaken to the light of your own true nature, May you be healed, May you be a source of healing for all beings" (Ancient Tibetan Buddhist blessing)
The Buddha expressed that man or woman can attain Buddhahood. Wake up. Oh, a female needs another life, I feel that as a judgement. Unless you see women as vessels for your next teacher.
