Seven Daily Aspirations
Daily aspirations for an enlivening morning practice: to live each day to its fullest, without expectation, to be bold and unpredictable, with good humor, to love humanity, to serve Gaia.
Forest Immersion: Shinrin-Yoku as Novasutras Practice
Explore the history, practice and science of “forest bathing”, and how it can help you deepen your connection with all other beings in loving-kindness, with the complex wonder and sacred beauty of the universe, with what we call agaya and ubuntu in Novasutras. Shinrin-yoku practice may help you become a more effective agent for increasing ubuntu and agaya in the world.
Awareness and response: Styrofoam litter on a creekside trail
When you walk outdoors, what things do you see that cause you to react with outrage, with sadness, with shame and disappointment for our befoibled human species? Thinking about styrofoam litter provides an example of how to transform the energy of those reactions into responses that enhance agaya and ubuntu.