This is the final post that corresponds to the course I have been facilitating called Uncertain Times: Traveling the Road of Transition Inside of Sufficiency. And as I think of what it means to Stand Together, and as the tagline for this session is to relax into sufficiency, I am drawn to what makes Sufficiency…
Sufficiency does not equal comfort. It doesn’t mean we won’t be hungry, tired, bored or lonely if we choose to live in Sufficiency. It doesn’t mean we are exempt from failure, loss, disease or upset. It doesn’t mean we have transcended something, that we are special or unique. What I have discerned on my journey…
Sufficiency is not right, but it is a right that we can harvest, a truth that exists for us to realize for ourselves. There’s no road down scarcity or road down sufficiency. For most of us the path of sufficiency is checkered with both the assumptions of scarcity and sufficiency at different times or moments. Our goal, my goal, is to lean into sufficiency more of the time.
The sun rises Its rays dance on the earth – all of the earth Its light sparkles like diamonds Jewels to be enjoyed by all Rays are abundant Not only for this planet but for seven others There is nothing to bottle Nothing to capture Nothing to sell, harness or hoard The sun is for…
I’ve noticed several more fascinating things about entitlement I want to share. 1. It keeps me focused on and addicted to what I don’t have. 2. I observe that I am not so hot at receiving, taking in, drinking up, resting in what I do create for myself. 3. My entitlement is righteous and hungry…
Three recent experiences helped me start to think about A Sufficient Future: One – It occurred to me as I was doing yoga this week and making a transition from one pose to another and then my wanting a block and moving towards the block and coming back to my mat, that not only was…
How do I be all I want to be? Read all I want to read? Clean all I want to clean? Clear all I want to clear? Eat all I want to eat? Own all I want to own? I WANT . . . Are wants a weapon of scarcity? When I want I am…
I made a deal with the devil and I did not even know it, not until my husband got cancer. (I know I told you all Id write about currency. That is coming but now I’ve been thrown a curve ball by life and want to share the insights from it.) So here is the…
Sufficiency invites us not to get rid of stuff but to allow our stuff to be part of our flow, the in and out of our lives. The gifting, the exchanging, the transferring, so that our stuff, our relationships, our ideas and our love can be part of the back and forth rhythm of life.
I have just finished the Beacon Press imprint of Gandhi an Autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth (1957). Although I found M.K. Gandhi’s writing style a little irksome I am intrigued by his experiments and I wonder what, if anything, they have to do with sufficiency? What are my truths? What could my…
