Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for being part of this month of exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wish to extend my gratitude to the following. If you have appreciated this month of offerings, I encourage you to support the teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While many people have contributed towards this month’s emails, any errors are strictly my own. For whatever harm I may have done, in thought, word, or deed, by way of greed, hatred and delusion, intentionally or unintentionally, I humbly ask your forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that January is done, there are several options to stay inspired:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of a period of practice, there is a tradition called “dedication of merit” where any goodness cultivated by our wholesome actions are shared with all beings everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I first heard a melodic rendition of this practice when Eve Decker performed it for an Awakening Joy<\/a> session one year. You can listen to her version here: The lyrics were penned by Rev Heng Sure following the 9\/11 attacks, and they were set to the tune of Loreena McKennitt’s “Dark Night of the Soul.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rev Heng Sure described the creation of the song this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The song “Dedication of Merit” was born as an antidote to the grief and helplessness following 9\/11 and the fall of the two towers. 250 Buddhists and Catholics had gathered at a Benedictine Convent in Indiana to investigate the Rule of St. Benedict from a Buddhist perspective.<\/p> Sister Mary Margaret Funk invited the Buddhists to provide a dedication of merit, a practice of sharing with the world all the goodness created by any wholesome action. Using the mind to broadcast goodness is an effective form of spiritual activism.<\/p>https:\/\/www.uri.org\/what-we-do\/resource-library\/dedication-merit-song<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n You can read more about the song, and listen to other renditions here: As Rev Heng Sure said, when “many hearts dedicate together, the effect can change the world in profound ways.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n May it be so, Dear Friends, Thank you for being part of this month of exploration. I wish to extend my gratitude to the following. If you have appreciated this month of offerings, I encourage you to support the teachers. Jill Shepherd and DaRa Williams, for sharing their hearts of wisdom and making the talks from this retreat available. More talks by\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[302],"tags":[326,324,98,6,325],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2022","tag-dedication-of-merit","tag-eve-decker","tag-generosity","tag-gratitude","tag-rev-heng-sure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/youtu.be\/-X83ixo_GUg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.urbandharma.org\/udharma9\/merit.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"