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Ethics

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#Ethics#Santosha#Sutras

Practicing Contentment in a Consumerist World

By Kristen Krash

In recent years, having flung myself headlong from the consumption bus to see what would happen, I’ve picked up some neat life hacks along the way. 

You don’t have to build a house from mud or raise chickens to be more of a creator. Here’s some very simple methods I’ve distilled that anyone can apply to practice clean living and contentment.

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Re-Membering Our Relation to the Earth Soil for Ecologically Sound Cities

By Jean Gardner

The Ecology of Tantra: Why Yogis Eat Carrots Rather Than Cows

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Shoulders to the Wheel

By Christopher Rzigalinski
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A Less Obvious Problem: Spirituality As Bypass

By Serenity Tedesco

Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death.

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#Ethics #Spirituality

Cornel West on Spiritual Citizenship (#137)

In this interview with Dr. Cornel West, originally a keynote event from our July 2021 Spiritual Citizenship Online Conference, co-host for the conference, Oneika Mays, explores the relationship between Cornel West’s spiritual and religious commitments and his political activism.

By Jacob Kyle
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#Cultures #Ethics #Social Justice

#BlackLivesMatter and the Yogic Art of Negation

To be a true yoga master, you need to master the art of negation. That’s Patanjali’s idea, from the Yoga Sutras: 2.33 Vitarka badhane pratipaksha bhavanam. The practice of pratipaksha bhanavam prescribes that, when disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite thoughts should be brought into awareness.

By Erin Luhks
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#Ethics #Practice

Consume Your Emotions, Before They Consume You

What’s happening is real and painful, but if we recognize that our emotions function within a narrow level of our consciousness, we can save ourselves from being devoured. Even as we’re being bludgeoned by an experience, we can pull back and tune in to a deeper dimension in ourselves.

By Swami Khecaranatha
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