The Ways We’re Experiencing Beauty: Your Curated Monthly Love Letter from the Rasa Casa
Through heartbreak and laughter, we just keep going; greeting the sun with each new day. Here’s what’s healing us, making us quake with irreverent laughter, and humbling us as we move forward, step-by-step.
This will MOVE you.Thich Nath Hanh burial requests as he approaches his final days.
“One senior monastic disciple, Brother Chan Phap Dung, recalled a powerful teaching shared by Thay before he became sick, in which he instructed his community not to build a traditional memorial stupa for his remains after he dies:
“Please do not build a stupa for me. Please do not put my ashes in a vase, lock me inside and limit who I am. I know this will be difficult for some of you. If you must build a stupa though, please make sure that you put a sign on it that says, ‘I am not in here.’ In addition, you can also put another sign that says, ‘I am not out there either,’ and a third sign that says, ‘If I am anywhere, it is in your mindful breathing and in your peaceful steps.’” (Plum Village)”
This will remind you of the interwoven beauty of NATURE. This beautiful documentary film follows the life of a peculiar octopus in the kelp forests of Africa.
This will make you feel CONNECTED. The Bengsons touch our hearts us with the “Keep Going Song”—we dare you to watch this and not *at least* well up a little.
This will make you LOL. Just Firstman’s killer impression of Mother Nature brings an supremely irreverent (and hilarious) note to a dark year (Note! Don’t swipe to his other videos if you are easily offended. Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!) 😉
