Lebo Seitshiro

Loving Mother Earth. Learning. Co-creating. Nurturing. Healing. Practising Botho (UbuNtu). Interbeing.

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Did you know? 🔔There are #scholarship places available for the next cohort of our online course, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet starting March 24.

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Dear friends, @mindfulnessbell invites submissions reflecting on the insight of nonduality, and healing from the illusion of separateness, in your personal practice. Deadline: April 13, 2024 to be considered for print inclusion. Submission guidelines 👉🏽https://t.co/2lBywIFQH4

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Dear friends, you can now join the next cohort of the online course Zen & the Art of Saving the Planet, a great opportunity to delve into how we can address the climate crisis with insight, compassion, community & mindful action. 🙏🏽
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In harmony as nature.
We give thanks for life.
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Dear beautiful family. What an interesting time we are experiencing in our collective history.
A time for transformation.
Let's join Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, a community that revers life.
Celebrating Ubuntu.
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[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“The old people came literally to love the soil, and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power.

It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth.

Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth.

The birds that flew in the air came to rest upon the earth, and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew.

The soul was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing. This is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of propping himself up and away from its life-giving forces. For him, to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and to feel more keenly. He can see more clearly into the mysteries of life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him.”

~ Chief Luther Standing Bear – Teton Lakota, (1868-1939)

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My state impacts the world. In taking responsibility for my nervous system I offer a gift to the world.
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'I want to feel your place...I want to feel the discomfort in order to stay present in the tension. The more I do that, the more I become a unifying space. When more people practice this, we begin to build a meeting ground for a solution.'
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Roshi Joan on AI: speaking truth about harms, with recommendations for next steps.
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Chief Redcloud's Speech after Wounded knee Massacre in 1890:

"I will tell you the reason for the trouble. When we first made treaties with the Government, our old life and our old customs were about to end; the game on which we lived was disappearing; the whites were closing around us, and nothing remained for us but to adopt their way—the Government promised all the means necessary to make our living out of the land, and to instruct us how to do it, and with abundant food to support us until we could take care of ourselves. We looked forward with hope to the time we could be as independent as whites, and have a voice in the Government.

The army officers could have helped better than anyone else but we were not left to them. An Indian Department was made with a large number of agents and other officials drawing large salaries—then came the beginning of trouble; these men took care of themselves but not of us. It was very hard to deal with the government through them –they could make more for themselves by keeping us back than by helping us forward. We did not get the means for working for our lands; the few things they gave us did little good. Our rations began to be reduced; they said we were lazy. That is false. How does any man of sense suppose that so great a number of people could get work at once unless they were once supplied with the means to work and instructors enough to teach them?

Our ponies were taken away from us under the promise that they would be replaced by oxen and large horses; it was long before we saw any, and then we got very few. We tried with the mean we had, but on one pretext or another, we were shifted from one place to another, or were told that such a transfer was coming.

Great efforts were made to break up our customs, but nothing was done to introduce us to customs of the whites. Everything was done to break up the power of the real chiefs. Those old men really wished their people to improve, but little men, so-called chiefs were made to act as disturbers and agitators. Spotted Tail wanted the ways of the whites, but an assassin was found to remove him. This was charged to the Indians because an Indian did it, but who set on the Indian?

I was abused and slandered, to weaken my influence for good. This was done by men paid by the government to teach us the ways of the whited. I have visited many other tribes and found that the same things were done among them; all was done to discourage us and nothing to encourage us.

I saw men paid by the government to help us, all very busy making money for themselves, but doing nothing for us . . . The men who counted (census) told all around that were feasting and wasting food. Where did he see it? How could we waste what we did not have? We felt we were mocked in our misery; we had no newspaper and no one to speak for us.

Our rations were again reduced. You who eat three times a day and see your children well and happy around you cannot understand what a starving Indian feels! We were faint with hunger and maddened by despair. We held our dying children and felt their little bodies tremble as their soul went out and left only a dead weight in our hands. They were not very heavy but we were faint and the dead weighed us down. There was no hope on earth. God seemed to have forgotten.

Someone had been talking of the Son of God and said He had come [a reference to the Ghost Dance movement]. The people did not know; they did not care; they snatched at hope; they screamed like crazy people to Him for mercy they caught at the promise they heard he made. The white men were frightened and called for soldiers. We begged for life and the white men thought we wanted theirs; we heard the soldiers coming. We did not fear. We hoped we could tell them our suffering and could get help. The white men told us the soldiers meant to kill us; we did not believe it but some were frightened and ran away to the Bad Lands.

The soldiers came. They said: “don’t be afraid—we come to make peace not, war.” It was true; they brought us food. But the hunger-crazed who had taken fright at the soldiers’ coming and went to the Bad Lands could not be induced to return to the horrors of reservation life. They were called Hostiles and the Government sent the army to force them back to their reservation prison."

~ Chief Red Cloud, Maȟpíya Lúta; Oglala Lakota (1822 – December 10, 1909)

Chief Redcloud is my Maternal Great x5 Grandfather! It was sad reading how children were dying in parents arms, cutting rations, driving natives off their homelands, deploying personal to destroy thousands of years of cultural infrastructure! (which provided a sustainable life for many tribes long before the U.S was created!)

This is Genocide and unfortunately still exists in todays World! .. seeing the countless atrocities being committed against children is the ultimate act against life!

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For those interested, the transcript of Thich Nhat Hanh's talk on the practice of touching #peace, offered in Berkeley, California, in the late 1980's, is on our blog: https://t.co/wTgGyDyh8E...

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New Ways November - Day 1: Make a list of new things you want to do this month https://t.co/VeJd1azPJQ #NewWaysNovember

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An Invitation to Sit Together for Peace 🪷

In response to the current situation in the Middle East, the International Plum Village Community shares an open letter, a guided meditation, and a letter to the President of the United States.

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Our online course, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, explores how to respond to the climate crisis with insight, compassion, community, and mindful action.

Registration now open - join the Oct 15 - Dec 3 2023 course cohort.

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How can I fight the injustices of this world without being consumed with anger, bitterness, outrage and resentment?🔔Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh answers this question during a retreat in #PlumVillage in May, 2014.

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“Small changes in the way we think will lead to big changes in the way we live.”

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“A regenerative culture will have to facilitate the healthy personal development of a human being from ego-centric, to socio-centric, to species-centric, to bio-centric, and cosmos-centric perspectives of self.” — @DrDCWahl https://t.co/bGD8QhwK0f

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