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The Red Thread

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The red thread holds all the great forces, the fraught encounters, and intense relationships with people. Why are we so entangled? Will we find a place of ease and peace that severs the complications of the red thread? Is that even a good idea? Connection is a way we understand our own hearts. Complete Sunday Zen session with Guest Host Tess Beasley, Music for meditation from Michael Wilding vows with Amaryllis Fletcher & Jesse Cardin. As recorded March 26, 2023.

Summary

The red thread holds all the great forces, the fraught encounters, and intense relationships with people. Why are we so entangled?

Will we find a place of ease and peace that severs the complications of the red thread? Is that even a good idea? Our stories change us somehow.

The great human drama makes things interesting. What are you refusing when you want to sever the passions and influence of relationships?

Buddha took the Great Middle Way.

Socrates often said that love and learning were inextricably connected—that love makes the connection. Connection is a way we understand our own hearts. It’s like having teenagers! Anger may actually indicate great love.

The red thread messes with the part of us that wants to control things.

Clarity and mystery are not really so separate if we include all experience, all life. Things are not always as they seem.

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Complete Sunday Zen session with Guest Host Tess Beasley, recorded March 26, 2023.

Michael Wilding plays sax for meditation. Amaryllis on violin intro with Jesse Cardin singing a cappella vows.

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