In this week’s episode Thanissara speaks with Joanna about: Standing Rock, a historic gathering under the guidance of indigenous wisdom; standing up for the sacredness of Nature; a huge wake up call for all of us; a new kind of activism and community-based citizen resistance; feeling the wound of separation from the Earth; finding our way through the authenticity of anger; the planet need us to protect it; reclaiming the sacred feminine and healing the wounded masculine within us all; waking up to the aliveness and intelligence of the Earth; intimacy with all beings; staying tuned to the inner heart.
Thanissara started Buddhist practice in the Burmese school in 1975. She was inspired to ordain after meeting Ajahn Chah and spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun where she was founding member of Chithurst Monastery and Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. She was also co-initiator of events for children and families at Amaravati. Thanissara has facilitated meditation retreats since 1989 and has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice from Middlesex University and the Karuna Institute in the UK. She is author of several books – “Garden of the Midnight Rosary”, The Heart of the Bitter Almond Heart Sutra”, co-author of “Listening to the Heart”, and her latest is “Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for our Earth”. She is a core teacher at Insight Meditation Society, MA, guiding teacher of Chatanooga Insight, TN and affiliated teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA.
“I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Thank you so much Joanna. Let us indeed, hold the light together.
Love and all blessings for your beautiful work,
Thanissara.
Dear Joanna,
Thank you very much for your interview with Thanissara this week.
There is no doubt whatsoever that this is one of the clearest and most cutting edge responses to what is happening to us all right now.
With your permission, I wanted to send this link to my mailing list of 250 people. It seems that important. Especially potent was the bit about anger which has been so misjudged and which Thanissara and yourself have so potently corrected.
In forwarding to my list your link, I want to make sure I am doing it correctly.
I assume that people cannot listen to the podcast without first signing up for your website, is that correct?
In which case the link would be Holding the Light Together – Future Primitive Podcasts
If I have this right, do I have your permission to forward this link to my mailing list?
PS: I am the artist who is a friend of Chris Bache.
Sincerely,
Richard