Milo North Burn

Dharma friend goofing around and working for all beings

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

Dharma talk and conversation on the theme of perfectly imperfect, practicing from a place of abundance, this Sunday evening at the SF Commons. A friend will also be offering some gong fu style tea for the conversation portion of the evening.

https://t.co/e97vjQbikN

[Friend Tasshin @tasshinfogleman]

what it means to hold a dream in your heart is to remember it day by day, year by year. to believe in yourself in the quiet moments and the challenges and the solitude and the pain and even the triumph. to hold a seed in gardensoil and let it surprise U when it becomes a flower

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@danielbrottman Yeah! Thanks 🙏🏼
I hope somehow it also helps bring more people to engage in that wonderful place and practice center.

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

Excited for my new 1-2 year life chapter living at Green Gulch Zen Center while continuing to teach through Boundless Refuge

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

We don’t need to (nor can we or should we) become awareness, Buddha, or enlightenment. Big pervasive mistake!

We realize it’s a principle inherent in ourselves and all beings, fully complete here and now. Maybe meeting each moment just as it is without controlling it is the practice of the Buddhas.

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

Summer vacation!!! 🥳 🏝️ 🧘

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@TVachaW @richardludlow Probably more nuance, too, and different ways of looking at this but yea, yogic, heart, gut, body, community practices all are really important for us to look at.

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@TVachaW @richardludlow Yes, they are, and I think there’s a notion that if you take care of one side it takes care of all the rest, which I don’t think is true. These things are interdependent and interrelated but also distinct— sort of like cords in a cable.

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

Glad to be waking up in Yosemite. Grateful for this place, and places like it, and the ways they replenish my own and so many other souls.

“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.” -John Muir

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@zencephalon @sarabollman It can and often does go the other way around too. Either way, we are form and spirit, and both sides of us seem to be calling to find their full expression and be in balance

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@joey_f6 The full version is “aha bing bing moment” 😂 ☠️ 💃

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@credorelief Not enneagram woops I meant meyers briggs — another metric is intelligence has not increased with practice and absent mindedness has ;)

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

My hot take is twofold: I noticed my enneagram shifted similarly over course of practice. I suspect it’s that I am now more like what 3 year old version of me was like though — kind of revealed my basic temperament and personality.
Also, though, I noticed less extremes, and more balance amongst the types, and I have wondered, for example, is anyone really a pure introvert or extrovert by nature or are the more extremes related to clinging.
I don’t know though and this is a very loose and rough musing👏🏼

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@zencephalon Cool thought - just curious what would be signs for you that they are projecting vs not?

[Friend Tasshin @tasshinfogleman]

whatever situation U are in is an opportunity to cultivate some virtue. it may not be the virtue U want to cultivate. it may not be a situation U even want to be in. but U can always learn, grow, develop

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

@zencephalon True story.
That’s always seemed really clear to me, that good analysts, coaches, teachers, etc — different modalities but it’s basically a transmission of love.

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

Also, everything is framed from an Awakening paradigm / view of fundamental wellbeing, sanity and health rather than a fix it / fear mentality

[Milo North Burn @BoundlessRefuge]

Talking about an idea for an app with my friend. Think “Headspace” but for the rest of us ie our body. Well curated resources and guided practices from leading experts to build wellbeing in any area— ie gut , sexual vitality, secure attachment, sleep, and many realms. AI power would prompt reflections as you go along and over time develop a map of your body with recommendations and connections drawn. Message me if you think this is cool and want to help build it!