Boundless in Motion

08/24/2024

We cannot create radical political changes we need without inner healing. People cause harm and trauma when they haven't learnt to love themselves. All of these offerings, except the residential retreat, are available by Dana (voluntary donation).

**If you are just a beginner and want to develop a compassionate attitude towards your own body and mind, please start with our online offerings on Monday night (only for BIPOC) or Saturday mornings where we offer guided meditations for relaxation and contemplation.

**If you are ready to dip into narrow focus concentration techniques, try our free Introduction to Zen module number 1 and attend Wednesday evening sangha where we have two 25 minutes periods of silent meditation.

** If you are ready to go deep, we have half a day of meditation every alternate Sunday to truly hear the sound of deepest buried pain in our own body. The path isn't rosy but it is easier with community.

** If you are curious about our Buddhist community's framework for change, please sign up for all seven introduction modules that are available on Boundless in Motion website.

**If you are ready to attend a Zen retreat, the next one is from Oct 8-13 in Colorado and will include a day of silence and kinning in wilderness. We have scholarships.

Our sangha looks forward to serving you in these times of polycrisis. Please message us your email address if you want to be added to our email list.

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03/30/2024

Join Lama Rod Owens and I this Monday, April 1st at 12 noon ET (10 Mountain time) for an IG live where we will draw on Lama Rod's latest book, The New Saints and discuss our relationship with the invisible realms of ancestors, spirits and deities. As a climate scientist and a Buddhist teacher witnessing deep levels of helplessness, rage and grief around the ongoing gen0cides, I am definitely looking forward to discuss about how spiritual practitioners can find a sense of agency in these times.

Please note that Lama Rod is coming to Colorado this summer to lead an Ecodharma retreat from May 25-31 that will be hosted at Cal-Wood by our Retreat Center.

I continue to co-lead a number of Ecodharma retreats for people of color and mixed-race groups in our Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.

Please tune in on Monday (10 am MT). If possible, check out the retreats. Let us serve your hurting bodies-hearts by joining these retreats that have been curated with deep care for our collective healing and resilience.

See or meet you soon!

03/26/2024

Join and I this Friday, March 29th at 12 noon ET (10 Mountain time) for an IG live where we will draw on quotes and messages from Lama Rod's latest book, The New Saints and discuss our relationship with the invisible realms of ancestors, spirits and deities. As a climate scientist and a Buddhist teacher witnessing deep levels of helplessness, rage and grief around the ongoing gen0cides, I am definitely looking forward to discuss about how spiritual practitioners can find their sense of agency and belonging in these times.

Please note that Lama Rod is coming to Colorado this summer to lead an Ecodharma retreat from May 25-31 hosted by our Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.

I continue to co-lead a number of Ecodharma retreats for people of color and mixed-race groups in our Ecodharma center (.mt.ecodharma).

Please tune in on Friday (10 am MT). If possible,check out the retreats and let us serve your hurting bodies hearts via joining these retreats that have been curated with deep care for our collective healing and resilience.

See or meet you soon!

03/25/2024

I am asking everyone who cares about P@lestine, Climate crisis or democracy in the US, to take the time to focus on your healing and joy so that we can come back to fighting a graceful fight. Without accessing healing, our capacity to hold the pain of the world is also decreased. We take actions from a place that is not spacious but rather a narrowed down emotional spectrum. We cannot be creative when we are numb. Yes, it is possible to get stuck in just "healing" without caring about the larger world but we cannot keep taking actions without healing.

Anger is sacred and natural when injustice is happening. Grief too. Fear too. But what is the pathway to sow love for both the short and long term? Unless we mindfully work with our inner trauma, rage or grief in spaces dedicated for this healing process, we might end up taking actions that manipulate or hurt others and perpetuate the very cycles of oppression and trauma that we are opposing.

Our Boundless in Motion sangha has two healing retreats for activists, educators and changemakers coming up at the stunningly beautiful Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center

1. May 14-19 for people of all backgrounds (only a few spots left) coleading with beloved Bianca Acosta (BRebel)
2. June 18-23 for people of color (coleading with beloved Kaira Jewel Lingo)

Both these retreats are designed to release grief and rage. These retreats include mindfulness practices to connect with the natural world. We would love to see you in the Rocky mountains of Colorado. Lots of scholarships available, especially for people working on climate justice and helping P@lestinian communities.

12/15/2023

What does it do to a soul-heart or body to kill? What kind of person do they become after killing? What violence would they commit in their personal lives? Towards their own children or elders? Or violence towards their own emotional parts that are softer, tender and need love?

We want to stop violence not just for one group but for everyone.

Indigenous traditions around the world and Eastern spiritual lineages say that we are deeply interconnected with each other at the energetic/spirit level. These teachings imply that even the soldiers, corrupt leaders, fossil fuel executives, are as much a part of me/my soul/my energetic being as the babies being m@ssacr=d, starving refuge=s and species going extinct. These beings who have power under the capitalist and patriarchal systems committing violence to those who have lesser power are also on their journey to eventual liberation. In multiple lifetimes (if you want to entertain that thought - something not available in monotheistic traditions including Islam, Christianity or Judaism). Certainly, Eastern traditions don't believe anyone is permanently evil. Believing that one person or one group is permanently evil is what leads to more cycles of violence.

As they say in Buddhism, may all beings be free. Of course, this shouldn't become a way to bypass speaking up for those who are most vulnerable.

12/13/2023

A new deal has been agreed at the UN climate summit in Dubai after days of negotiations. For the first time, the deal calls on all countries to move away from using fossil fuels - but not to phase them out, something many governments wanted
The text recognises the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions if humanity is to limit temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The COP28 president said nations had "confronted realities and... set the world in the right direction". BUT Island nations hard-hit by climate change are critical - representative Samoa says they were "not in the room" when the deal was approved. The agreement clearly doesn't go far enough; it won't be possible to achieve the transition in a "fair and fast manner". What will happen next?

The answers lie buried in how we deal with our own traumas and how we access our own power in these times of polycrisis.

12/11/2023

Irony! Climate advocates in the Global South are rightly asking financially richer nations to set up a "loss and damage" fund because the escalating climate crisis will lead to more and more damage to human life, critical life supporting infrastructure, historical monuments, sacred sites etc. Global North has, of course, been slow in creating pathways for this "loss and damage" fund. But see, we are not able to stop the losses right now and most climate movement leaders aren't speaking up enough about the genocidal violence, loss of all infrastructure, unending trauma and the refugee crisis that has ravaged Gaz@ and will impact the region.

Thank you and you should try to get this published.

12/08/2023

Refaat Alareer, brilliant Palestinian poet, academic and journalist killed earlier today by an airstrike on his sister's home. Sister was killed too. So were her four children.

**Would you fly a kite in Refaat's honor?
**Or maybe you could actually become a colorful kite (with a white tail) for children in Gaza who loved him? Like in your dreams?
**Would you become tears of love for him and then maybe even spread that small pool of tears on tiny imaginary seedlings so they would become mighty trees. Trees that can dream of taking vow to protect all beings?

I know you could say that's illogical thinking. How could a few tears nourish anything?

But that's what I have got right now. An apparently insignificant pool of tears. But I do hope and pray that in a quantum world, everything is powerful. In Buddhist worlds, indigenous worlds, intentions are everything. My tears are not useless. Some loving power inherent in our relationships is hearing the sound of these tears (oh, I can weep silently and I can wail like a thunder) and using them to nurture our collective ability to love those who are different, those who are dying, those who are truly abandoned and indigenous. Those from whom modernity, racism, colonization has stolen their life (or their ways of life).

I have marched. I have sat in the offices of congressmen to ask for a permanent ceasefire. I have sat in and organized meditation/prayer and grief circles. I have sat with my helplessness and that of others. There is a survivor's guilt. Sometimes it does feel like everything is useless. But I am committed to keep trying. I hope you are too!

What is this human life if not a constant attempt to feel all the hard emotions of aging, sickness, death, destruction, separation, loneliness and still keep striving to somehow love, care and belong fully.

And belonging means respecting not stealing. It means sharing in a reciprocal way. How will you live in peace Israel after killing so many innocent civilians? And will the innocence turned into terror not come to bite you in a few years no matter what you thought of Hamas or jihadist agendas? How could you kill so ruthlessly and not expect terrorism in return?

I digressed. Did I?

Anyway, don't look away for too long. I know our pool of tears has the power to heal...

11/20/2023

US as a country might have thought or acted differently if these were 7,000 white kids in Paris or California or other parts of Europe or the US. In the end, US government is not viewing P@lestini@n kids as fully human. The brown muslim kids are somehow more dispensable in a quest to give some Jews (and some powerful US allies) a sense of false short-term safety. This will only breed more support for H@m@s and more terrorism overall.

This genocidal violence isn't leaving time or energy for humanity to respond to climate crisis which can make both Isr@el and Gaz@ inhabitable for any human in a few decades.

What a colossal ugly tragedy the universe wants us to face everyday! Thank you fellow warriors who are speaking up for peace, healing and justice. I would not want to live in this world without you.

11/12/2023

Today is Diwali - Indian festival of lights. These days, I am often left completely speechless and my body feels heavy or dark. My heart cries hard whenever I watch my social media feed - especially posts by young intrepid journalists I have come to love and respect so deeply. Amidst the darkness, I derive much light and courage from those of you who are not looking away and taking actions that align with restoring peace and justice.

And often I turn to ancestors and invisible world for guidance and releasing my grief at the state of the world. I make altars and call in the inner bodhisattvas. This one is from two days ago. Notice Jewish sacred symbol. menorah and Islamic calligraphy of Allah in the middle.

May you somehow feel held by the love of the universal invisible realms which exist but do feel inaccessible at dark times. May there be access to the inner light and love for you today and always.

11/08/2023

Today. Boulder. Bring signs that encourage loving all beings. Organized by .boulder, local and INN.

10/30/2023

Today. Every Monday. Guided meditation, silence, sharing and sanctuary. For us. People of color.

No fixed cost. Donation accepted.