Comments on: http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Heather http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/#comment-20082 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:00:27 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/#comment-20082 Hanh is basically my longtime spiritual teacher, Jen. That's whose work has always resonated with me the most, from the start. And you might be interested in the fact that my old sangha in Minneapolis is all Hanh-based practice and community. It's right near the Birchwood, and just an awesome community: http://www.oceandharma.org/sangha.htm And Molly? Yep. Hanh is basically my longtime spiritual teacher, Jen. That’s whose work has always resonated with me the most, from the start.

And you might be interested in the fact that my old sangha in Minneapolis is all Hanh-based practice and community. It’s right near the Birchwood, and just an awesome community: http://www.oceandharma.org/sangha.htm

And Molly? Yep.

]]> by: Jenny http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/#comment-20079 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:54:06 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/#comment-20079 Sounds like a good time to be reading some Thich Naht Hanh, who is on my list as well. I'm about to start a mindfulness-based stress reduction course (based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's program), and I think it's going to be amazing. Sounds like a good time to be reading some Thich Naht Hanh, who is on my list as well. I’m about to start a mindfulness-based stress reduction course (based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s program), and I think it’s going to be amazing.

]]> by: Molly http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/#comment-20035 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:27:35 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/09/12/91107-gasworks/#comment-20035 <i>But it’s okay: I can sit there now, on the grass, by the water, appreciating it for what it is, not what it was, using it for an entirely different — and from my perspective, in my moment, a very important — purpose. That doesn’t negate the work everyone did in building and maintaining it, nor does it make their efforts unimportant. Even if it were utterly gone, rather than in the state it is now, the same would be true. It’s ridiculous to feel something you or anyone else has done loses import or meaning because its purpose has changed, or its initial purpose is moot; because whatever goal you had for it wasn’t met or fell or had to be abandoned. The work done in that gargantuan construction was meaningful in the doing alone, regardless of the result.</i> Hmm. Very sage words, there, miss H. Also seems fairly applicable to the current state of Scarleteen... But it’s okay: I can sit there now, on the grass, by the water, appreciating it for what it is, not what it was, using it for an entirely different — and from my perspective, in my moment, a very important — purpose. That doesn’t negate the work everyone did in building and maintaining it, nor does it make their efforts unimportant. Even if it were utterly gone, rather than in the state it is now, the same would be true. It’s ridiculous to feel something you or anyone else has done loses import or meaning because its purpose has changed, or its initial purpose is moot; because whatever goal you had for it wasn’t met or fell or had to be abandoned. The work done in that gargantuan construction was meaningful in the doing alone, regardless of the result.

Hmm. Very sage words, there, miss H. Also seems fairly applicable to the current state of Scarleteen…

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