[Oe List ...] Kaira Jewel Lingo - Richard Rohr Daily Meditation: Accepting What Is

Wed Nov 10 04:20:43 PST 2021

Thanks for sharing this, Ken.  Kaira's book was just published last week.
I've ordered my copy from our local bookstore.

Shelley Hahn

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 5:33 AM Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> *Kaira Jewel Lingo, a former Buddhist nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum
> Village community in France, reflects on coming to terms with the
> unpredictable challenges of life:*
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> Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
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> Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
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> From the Center for Action and Contemplation
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> Week Forty-Five: Christianity and Buddhism
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> Accepting What Is
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> *Father Richard has often said that transformation mostly comes through
> great love and great suffering. The First Noble Truth of Buddhism shows how
> accepting the inescapable nature of suffering can lead to greater freedom.
> Kaira Jewel Lingo, a former Buddhist nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village
> community in France, reflects on coming to terms with the unpredictable
> challenges of life: *
>
> In the Buddha’s most essential teaching of the Four Noble Truths, he
> shares his discovery that suffering is a part of life, and there is no
> escape from it. This is the first Noble Truth and acknowledging it can help
> us to suffer less. If we can accept where we are, and not judge the
> disruption in our life as wrong or bad, we can touch great freedom. This is
> because fighting what is doesn’t actually work. As the saying goes,
> “whatever we resist persists.”. . .
>
> Thay [Thich Nhath Hanh] often said, “A true practitioner isn’t someone who
> doesn’t suffer, but someone who knows how to handle their suffering.” We
> could say that the measure of our accomplishment or success is not that our
> life has no ups and downs, but that we can surf the waves!
>
> This attitude of acceptance is freeing when we apply it not only to our
> personal suffering but also to the suffering in the world. Once, as a young
> nun, when I was practicing a classic Plum Village guided meditation, I came
> to the final exercise, “Breathing in, I dwell in the present moment;
> breathing out, I know this is a wonderful moment.” Suddenly I found myself
> stuck when I did this practice, questioning how we could truly affirm it
> was “a wonderful moment” with all the violence, hatred, inequality, and
> preventable tragedies that are happening in the present moment all over the
> world. . . .
>
> I sat in the question of it and began to see that along with all the
> suffering and pain, there are also many beings that are supporting others
> in the present moment. There are many hearts of compassion, opening to
> relieve suffering, to care for others, to teach, to show a different way.
> There are people who are courageous and standing up for what they believe
> is right, protecting our oceans, cleaning rivers and beaches, advocating
> for those who are oppressed. There are those in every corner of the planet
> who are quietly doing the things no one else wants to do: caring for the
> forgotten people, places, species, and doing what needs to be done.
>
> When I focused on that other part of the larger picture, I was able to
> touch that, yes, this present moment is also a wonderful moment. I saw that
> suffering doesn’t have to disappear in order for beauty to be there. That
> life is about all of these things. . . . The reality is that there is great
> terror and pain, and there is great love and great wisdom. They’re all
> here, coexisting in this moment.
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>
> Kaira Jewel Lingo, *We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving
> through Change, Loss, and Disruption* (Parallax Press: 2021), 28, 30–31.
>
> *Image credit:* Rose B. Simpson
> <https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-atiukc-tlkrtuhhul-y/>, *Reclamation II* (detail),
> 2018, sculpture.
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> We featured the artist of these sculptures, Rose B. Simpson, at our recent
> CONSPIRE conference—so many of us were impacted by her creations that we
> decided to share her work with our Daily Meditations community for the
> month of November.
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> *Image inspiration:* *This piece is of a series of reclamation and it's
> about finding our identities and our empowerment in our histories and
> stories and timelines and how do we apply that to our beings in order to
> become whole.* —Rose B. Simpson, CONSPIRE Interview, 2021
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> *Loving God, you fill all things with a fullness and hope that we can
> never comprehend. Thank you for leading us into a time where more of
> reality is being unveiled for us all to see. We pray that you will take
> away our natural temptation for cynicism, denial, fear and despair. Help us
> have the courage to awaken to greater truth, greater humility, and greater
> care for one another. May we place our hope in what matters and what lasts,
> trusting in your eternal presence and love. Listen to our hearts’ longings
> for the healing of our suffering world. Please add your own intentions . .
> . Knowing, good God, you are hearing us better than we are speaking, we
> offer these prayers in all the holy names of God. Amen.*
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