by Lily Forester | May 26, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 464 There Is No Scorecard The man in the hall said “Much of what I do is motivated by a desire to make up for the bad things I did in the past.” Many in the room stood up in the circle to show that they resonated strongly with what he’d said, that they too...
by Lily Forester | May 23, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 463 The Great Confusion In the Lakota tradition, they have this phrase “Wakan Tanka”, which is often translated as “Great Spirit”, meaning God or Divine Nature. However, some scholars suggest that a more literal translation is “Great Mystery”. Many times we...
by Lily Forester | May 18, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 462 The Big Lie When we were children, many of us couldn’t wait to grow up. We wanted to be independent, to be responsible for ourselves, to have the freedom that adulthood would afford us. Now we may be grown, and we think about those carefree days of our...
by Lily Forester | May 16, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 461 Make It Holy In many parts of the world, people are charmed by images of the Buddha. They liked to put them on a mantlepiece or in their garden as ornaments, perhaps without thinking about the deeper meaning of these statues. In Thailand, the image of the...
by Lily Forester | May 12, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 459 Why Don’t You Just Go? At certain dark times in our lives, we might begin to wonder if it’s worth going on. We might start to think about taking our own life, and even seriously considering it. If we’re in that position, it can become apparent that...
by Lily Forester | May 9, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 458 Ordinary Guy In Keith Johnstone’s book Impro, he describes a situation where there is a circle of actors improvising in verse. As the circle goes around to one of the actors, he comes up with some incredible rhyme that has the actors gasping and the...
