Scavenge + Starlight

What I liked about Buddhism when I found it was all the mind training and the easy step-by-step already discovered and verified ways to get yourself out of anything. I also really appreciated the take-it-or-leave-it-ness of the teachings; it matched what my own elders had been trying to remind me: if it works for you, excellent. if it doesn't, just ignore that part and move on. Each path is unique and perfect as it is for each person. I needed Buddhism because my own Nipissingism had been carved up and tossed about/away by the impacts of colonialism (which is a nice way to say white supremacist ideologies that were governmentally approved worked to inflict a multi-fold, many generations genocide on my peoples, which is incidentally still occurring in its latest iteration). There wasn't much Nipissingism spirituality teachings for me to find and work with as a young kid. The entirety of First Nations' spirituality felt like it was in the beginning stages of ju...

"Surrender is the art of letting fear be" is what spirit said one time to me. I was jotting down the framework for the moon-ish ceremony I was hosting, and this nugget was the last thing I wrote down. I found the sheet I speak from yesterday; I was cleaning up my bookcase, hoping to find room for more art supplies, and as I was chucking out other moon-ish ceremony framework pages, I came across this one. And I just couldn't throw it out. Just let fear be. So simple, ya, but in practice, it's tough. I see clients struggle with this aspect; I struggle with this aspect. Just let fear be. Be has two ways I see it: leave it alone, and let it exist. Both are different ways of letting fear be. I think spirit meant "surrender is the art of letting fear exist and leaving it alone there while you see it and stay near but non grasping (rationalization, solution, assistance)" but sometimes spirit is very compact in what it says. It'll give you...