Today I’m writing about friendship. And about ways to grow our imagination beyond our atomized, hyper-individual selves. And beyond our narrow take of how a nuclear family should live. I often say that one day I want to start a congregation. Not something that pretends to be totally new. In my dreams, I call it the “Congregation of Co-Evolution Through Friendship.” Because that is what is at the heart of this dream. A way to nurture our togetherness. A way to co-create a space of mutual aid and support in matters that are both spiritual and material.

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A reflection on empathy in the age of polarization, including an invitation to join me for an hour of practice. AND a reminder that you can still join us for Six Weeks of Meditation

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Today I write to invite you to meditate for six weeks. You commit to at least 10 minutes of meditation every day. You are of course welcome to sit longer. The six weeks of practice will be split into two sets of three weeks each.

We will practice Tonglen from Sunday, March 10 to Easter Sunday, March 31.

And
We will practice Loving Kindness from Easter Sunday, March 31 to Sunday, April 21.

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Here I invite you to reflect on how our togetherness is the best way for us to cope with the tragic and its inevitability. I share tips and resources on how to come together and bring people together.

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I’m writing to invite you to think about your Minimum Viable Philosophy (MVP).

Your Minimum Viable Philosophy is like your “trojan mouse.” It is your experimental framework for how to live a good life. When your minimum viable philosophy meets reality you get a sense of how it works. You gather feedback from your experience interacting with others, yourself and the world. And you iterate. You learn.

How are you going to live?

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Join me in celebrating the Winter Solstice on Thursday, December 21, at 4PM Eastern time. We’ll meet just for an hour. An opportunity to connect with each other. And to honor the sacred cycle of the Earth, the Sun and the Night.

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What I share here with you might often be about our work, about strategy and thought. About amazing people. And about what will help us become better.

But I also mean to share my heart with you. My journey. What I’m learning, and where I mean to go. I mean to share it, because I want to continue to find the others, those of us who are saying yes. We’ll face forward. Here we go.

What I share with you is my heart and my life. And so of course I will share with you one of the happiest, fullest days of my life. The day I married Tuesday Rivera. The day we became husband and wife.

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I am looking for people to join me in a 10-week training program. (BOOST is a 4-week program.) It will include our time doing BOOST, but it will start before and end after BOOST.

I am not teaching this breathing program. I just really want to learn it. And I know I will need other people to help me stick to it.

We are talking about TWO 20 minute training sessions every day for 10-weeks. Joining includes purchasing the book, an app, and a tool for “biofeedback.” So that we can be scientific about our progress.

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