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“(…) Care is not just a kind of maintenance technique. Certainly, there is an important technical dimension to care, but it isn’t done humanly without the listening, the recognizing of the other, without empathy, solicitude, participation or delicacy. In the beginning of care is the activation of our responsibility for the other. As in its opposite is indifference, abandonment or discard.

(…) Care is the great humanizing experience, the place in the world where we learn the most, the great space of authentic wisdom. ”

José Tolentino Mendonça, in Caring for the Fragile Life, 08.02.2021

[ OP Translation ]

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Caring Together

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2021…

That from the Openness to life and to the Other, we find the center on us and become naturally immune to any individual or collective ailment. 

More innocence, more forgiveness, more union, more trust.

More maturity, more cooperation.

All the Courage.

For an increasingly strong, light and luminous existence, with health, joy and art.

Gratitude.

Om Point

“What if our religion was each other.

If our practice was our life.

If prayer, our words.

What if the temple was the Earth.

If forests were our church.

If holy water – the rivers, lakes, and ocean.

What if meditation was our relationships.

If the teacher was life.

If wisdom was self-knowledge.

If love was the center of our being.”

Ganga White

– What if the invitation is simply to stay, be with me in silence?

I am not someone that you admire, applaud, follow or would follow unquestionably. I don’t have any talent, aptitude or quality that fascinates you or especially interests you. I have no use for you, apparently.

I am also not sad, I’m not sick, I’m not, perhaps, on the verge of death. I am not in misery. Nothing you owe me or are obliged to. I am not asking for help, alms or charity. I have no limitation or weakness that you may feel compassionate or obliged to help, apparently.

However, here I am inviting you to accompany me. In life, in presence, in perception…

Perhaps in the discovering of something… greater? different? unique? amazing?…

– What if the invitation is simply to respond lightly to this simple and perhaps common challenge?

Do you accept?

Do you venture?

Do you risk ?

Beyond any logic or motivation, here I am available to be with you, to share, to discover.

Has life a justification for every event?

Is there a formula for each existence, feeling, action?

Is there a formula for each life?

I challenge you to discover for yourself what you can find in surrendering to this simplicity of staying, being with me in silence.

Beyond fears, beyond expectation, beyond prejudice.

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With Me In Silence.

Do you let yourself be invited?

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Do I listen ?