HeyJaredLetters to Beloved Community
My thoughts on healing, spiritual practice, nonviolence, gift economy and more.
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Because We Need Each Other Pt. II (opens the original)
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Heated Toilet Seats and the Vulnerability of Transparency (opens the original)
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It is that time again! (New to this practice? Click here to read why we do this)Sharing our finances continues to feel both deeply vulnerable and strangely liberating. We wonder how this practice is being received, and we’d love to hear from you!What comes up for you as you read this? Are there any challenging feelings that emerge? Do you read the whole thing? What are you curious about?Again, let’s jump to the punchline first.
What If This Is What It Is To Be A Man? (opens the original)
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Picture…A circle of men holding space for one another as we cry, wail, scream and release emotions we’ve been taught would make us weak or dangerous.Four men spending an hour taking turns offering each other gentle touch while humming and weaving simple songs together.Two men looking each other in the eyes, offering words of affirmations.Fifteen men surrounding one, singing to him as fifteen pairs of hands held his body while he collapsed into waves of profound grief.Men playing games, laughing
Holding Two Truths (opens the original)
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I wrote about the Buddhist teaching of the Doctrine of Two Truths in my book Fierce Vulnerability, but it feels like such an important teaching in these times that I wanted to expand on it a little bit here.Specifically, I continue to see how many political movements are struggling with fractures and burnout while many spiritual communities are lost in spiritual bypassing. I believe that this teaching can help us bridge the gap between the two, and offer a different way forward.In a Restorative
The Myth of Independence (opens the original)
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Independence is a myth. Separation is a delusion. In the ultimate, there is only belonging.It’s been almost five-years since LiZhen and I moved into Canticle Farm, an intentional community in the heart of Oakland. We are a community of 13-ish homes and 45-ish people, countless animals and an abundance of fruit trees. We are intentionally diverse across every identity marker imaginable, with people with inherited wealth living alongside those who escaped violence in their home country and migrate
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