Community Retreat Day: Live and In-Person
Save the date for the next:
Saturday September 21st 9:30a-5:30p
at Portland State University
Saturday September 21st 9:30a-5:30p
at Portland State University
Plan to join us for the next retreat day.
Theme TBA: let us know what you're thinking/feeling/sensing!
Currently this is the page to tell us your experience of this year's coastal retreat exploring care, and your ideas for what is next. All feedback is helpful to us!
Thank you to the 30 participants who shared so much together. We truly enjoyed every minute of it and were full of energy even at the end because you all shared yours! To your energy, your generosity, your kindness-- cheers and thanks to you all.
Dale and Deb
Theme TBA: let us know what you're thinking/feeling/sensing!
Currently this is the page to tell us your experience of this year's coastal retreat exploring care, and your ideas for what is next. All feedback is helpful to us!
Thank you to the 30 participants who shared so much together. We truly enjoyed every minute of it and were full of energy even at the end because you all shared yours! To your energy, your generosity, your kindness-- cheers and thanks to you all.
Dale and Deb
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Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism says that Generosity is a form of compassion and an approach to life…. The ultimate spiritual experience in Buddhism.
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without “for me,” and without “for them.” It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness…. It is the attitude that one has been born fundamentally rich rather than that one has to become rich… Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people, because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. They recharge your energy, because in the process of relating with them you acknowledge your wealth, your richness... There is no feeling of poverty at all in this approach to life. Author Leo Buscaglia: The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor.
But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt. |