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SUMMARY:Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Archive
DESCRIPTION:Avalokiteśvara from the Ajanta Caves \n  \n  \nOpen Road Meditation & Mindfulness Community \n  \nIn September of 2020\, Open Road board members–Bill Faricy\, Deborah Buchanan and Katie Radditz–along with Howard Thoresen and I\, inaugurated the Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Community\, for people who live in prison and for those who don’t. If you are interested in meditation and mindfulness\, you are welcome to join us. The idea of the Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue is to provide support and encouragement for your spiritual practice–that is\, whatever gives your life meaning. \n  \nWe are not promoting any religious tradition. We will just be sharing our thoughts\, experiences\, questions and friendship in order to support and encourage each other in living more peacefully and mindfully. To begin\, we will be using Your True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh as a jumping off point for dialogue. As we go along\, we will use other inspirational texts and poems\, along with everyone’s personal ruminations. \n  \nI will coordinate the writings of prison residents through the Open Road post office box\, and use email for everyone else. To begin\, everyone is invited to find one of the 365 meditations in Thich Nhat Hanh’s book that inspires you and write something in response to it. You can use other sources of inspiration as well. \n  \nOn the 15th of every month I will send out what I’ve collected from everyone to all the participants. You are free to respond to what other people write\, or just ponder it. \n  \nHere is the first Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on September 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the second Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on October 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the third Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on November 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the fourth Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on December 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the fifth Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on January 15\, 2021. \nHere’s the sixth Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on February 15\, 2021. \nHere’s the seventh Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on March 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for July 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for August 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for September 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for October 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for November 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for December 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for January 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for February 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for March 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for July 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for August 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for September 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for October 15\, 2022 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for November 15\, 2022 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for December 15\, 2022 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for January 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for February 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for March 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for July 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for August 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for September 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for October 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for November 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for December 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for January 15\, 2024 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for February 15\, 2024 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for March 15\, 2024 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2024   \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2024  \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2024 \n  \nHere are two meditation texts:  \na talk on Beginner’s Mind by Shunryū Suzuki (1904-1971) \nthe earliest Zen text\, Hsin Hsin Ming\, by Seng Ts’an\, the Third Zen Patriarch (529-606 A.D.) \nIf you’d like to join our merry band\, email me and let me know. \n  \nJake was in segregation (solitary confinement) at Two Rivers prison when he wrote this: \n\n49 – What is a leaf?\n \nIs one of my favorites! In segregation we have paintings that are of different scenes. At first it was cool\, then I and others got over it. But since putting this wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh in perspective you see more than a painting. For it opens my eyes to the time\, the painter\, the painter’s years of art skills\, everything down to what makes paint…paint. There are so many miracles that came together to make these paintings! It’s amazing. Now I try to be mindful of what miracles come into place to make people I meet\, foods I eat. Being conscious of what had to come together to create your best friend or your favorite food gives you much more appreciation for how they come to be in your life .\n \nThank you for giving me a chance\, Johnny. I’m really working on myself. My goal is day by day. (Today be less ego-oriented.) Trying to not care who judges me for being me. Because that’s not my problem\, I am happy and peaceful. It’s been a sacrifice\, but as I’m learning sacrifice is the way to a peaceful life!\n \nPeace Love Happiness\n \n–Jake\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nMay all people be happy. \nMay we live in love. \n  \n–Johnny Stallings \nExecutive Director\, The Open Road
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SUMMARY:peace\, love\, happiness & understanding  7/4/24
DESCRIPTION:photo by Abe Green \n  \n  \nTHE OPEN ROAD \npeace\, love\, happiness & understanding \n  \nJuly 4\, 2024 \n  \nI asked some friends to answer this question: “What stories do you tell yourself to feel okay\, cheer yourself up\, bless the day?” \n  \nI like to remind myself that everything is miraculous. I tell myself that life is short\, this day is precious and so I want to live it in the Golden World. The Golden World is a name I give to a feeling that everything is perfect\, that this is Paradise. I’m most likely to feel this way in the quiet time at the beginning of the day—especially when thought and language fall away. So\, in addition to telling myself stories to cheer myself up\, I love to enjoy “the storyless state”—free of narratives\, free of cares.  \n  \nI have friends in books who have written about those moments of perfect beauty and joy: Walt Whitman\, Hafiz\, Thomas Traherne\, Kim Stafford\, Thich Nhat Hanh\, and others. I love the little book by Peter Schumann of the Bread & Puppet Theater\, St Francis Preaches to the Birds. I love Giotto’s painting of Saint Francis preaching to the birds. Nancy and I enjoy watching “Jeeves and Wooster” with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. We love watching Wes Anderson movies. The “Chaiyya Chaiyya” video (with English subtitles) from the movie “Dil Se” on YouTube always makes me happy. \n  \n—Johnny Stallings \n* \n  \nRe: the discussion\, after Jill’s reading of Mary Oliver\, of what to do with our one wild and precious life\, I offer this link to a video seasons greetings card I made when we lived in the Sierras\, long ago\, made with my little camcorder and scratchy sound\, circling the wildness we once tried to rein in\, and later yearned to touch: \n  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFTtCsj0js \n  \n—J Kahn \n* \n  \nHere’s the Mary Oliver poem that Jill Littlewood shared\, that J was referring to: \n  \nThe Summer Day \n  \nWho made the world? \nWho made the swan and the black bear? \nWho made the grasshopper? \nThe grasshopper\, I mean— \nthe one who has flung herself out of the grass\, \nthe one who is eating sugar out of my hand\, \nwho is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— \nwho is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. \nNow she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. \nNow she snaps her wings open\, and floats away. \nI don’t know exactly what a prayer is. \nI do know how to pay attention\, how to fall down \ninto the grass\, how to kneel down in the grass\, \nhow to be idle and blessed\, how to stroll through the fields\, \nwhich is what I have been doing all day. \nTell me\, what else should I have done? \nDoesn’t everything die at last\, and too soon? \nTell me\, what is it you plan to do \nwith your one wild and precious life? \n  \n—Mary Oliver \n* \n  \nA Translation Project for Peace \n  \nby Kim Stafford \n  \nA friend at the Oregon Society for Translators & Interpreters\, whose members work primarily in hospitals and the courts to help patients and clients outside the English language to navigate the system\, asked if she could invite my poem “A Proclamation for Peace” to travel around the world. \n  \nI said yes\, of course\, and last fall we held a zoom session with translators online in Japan\, Nepal\, India\, and elsewhere\, at work translating the poem. Since then\, we’ve decided to invite more languages into the project and make a book. We’re up to fifty languages and counting. As I describe the project on the back cover: \n  \nThis book sends a poem for peace around the world so it may become a new poem in Arabic and Hebrew\, Russian and Ukrainian\, Tibetan and Mandarin\, Tamil\, Vietnamese\, Polish\, Yoruba\, Yucatec\, and a host of  other languages. Together with notes about the peace-making translators and their languages\, and recordings of voices speaking gentle words\, this book is for the children of the world. \n  \n—from A Proclamation for Peace: Translated into World Languages \n  \nHere’s the poem in English\, and in Persian\, as translated by my friend in Tehran\, Alirezza Tagdareh: \n  \n     A Proclamation for Peace  \n  \nWhereas the world is a house on fire;  \nWhereas the nations are filled with shouting;  \nWhereas hope seems small\, sometimes  \n     a single bird on a wire  \n     left by migration behind.  \n  \nWhereas kindness is seldom in the news  \n     and peace an abstraction\n     while war is real;  \n  \nWhereas words are all I have;  \nWhereas my life is short;  \nWhereas I am afraid;\nWhereas I am free—despite all  \n     fire and anger and fear;  \n  \nBe it therefore resolved a song  \nshall be my calling—a song  \nnot yet made shall be vocation  \nand peaceful words the work  \nof my remaining days.  \n  \n  \n \n  \nAnd here is the poem read in Yoruba\, by my friend Abayo Animashaun from Nigeria: \n  \n \n  \nThe book will be available at Bookshop.org and other outlets by mid-September. \n  \n—Kim Stafford \n* \n  \nElizabeth Domike sent this: \n  \nTo live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient  \nfor human beings; we need to transcend\,  \ntransport\, escape; we need meaning\,  \nunderstanding\, and explanation;  \nwe need to see over-all patterns  \nin our lives.  \nWe need hope\, the sense of a future.  \n  \nAnd we need freedom (or\, at least\,  \nthe illusion of freedom) to get beyond  \nourselves\, whether with telescopes  \nand microscopes and our ever-burgeoning  \ntechnology\, or in states of mind  \nthat allow us to travel to other worlds\,  \nto rise above our immediate  \nsurroundings. \n  \nWe may seek\, too\, a relaxing of inhibitions  \nthat makes it easier to bond with each other\,  \nor transports that make our consciousness  \nof time and mortality easier to bear.  \n  \nWe seek a holiday from our inner  \nand outer restrictions\, a more intense  \nsense of the here and now\, the beauty  \nand value of the world we live in. \n  \n—from Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks \n* \n  \nAlex Tretbar wrote: \n  \nHadn’t seen this one of Bill Stafford’s before. How gorgeous. \n  \nLove the Butcher Bird Lurks Everywhere \n  \nA gather of apricots fruit pickers left \ngleam like reasons for light going higher\, higher; \nI look half as hard as I can to tease \nthe fruit out of its green. \n        (It is time to run lest pity overtake us\, \n        and calamity pit invents to accompany itself: \n        to sigh is a stern act—we are judged by this air.) \n  \nDown the steady eye of the charging bear \na gun barrel swerves—intention\, then flame; \nand willows do tricks to find an exact place in the wind: \nresolution steady\, bent to be true. \n        (While there’s time \n        I call to you by all these dubious guides: \n        “Forsake all ways except the way we came.”) \n  \n—William Stafford\, from The Paris Review\, issue no. 22 (Autumn-Winter 1959-1960) \n* \n  \nThis is a summer poem if ever there was one.   It makes me think of your and Nancy’s back yard. I can relate except for the part about having no aches after working in the garden. sigh . . .  I know it will get better after all the beds are prepared and the seeds get growing. Then the salads make it all worth while.   \n  \nGift \n  \nA day so happy.  \nFog lifted early\, I worked in the garden. \nHummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.  \nThere was nothing on earth I wanted to possess. \nI knew no one worth my envying him.  \nWhatever evil I had suffered\, I forgot.  \nTo think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.  \nIn my body I felt no pain.   \nWhen straightening up\, I saw the blue sea and sails.  \n  \n—Czesław Miłosz \n  \nWishing you all such a summer moment.    \nxoxo  Katie Radditz \n 
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SUMMARY:¡Bardaphilia!  7/19-8/9
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n“All the world’s a stage\, and all the men and women merely players…”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nBardaphilia!  \n  \nIf you don’t already love Shakespeare\, this class will remedy that. And if you do…you know there’s nothing more fun than reading the plays and poems together with friends. Actor and director Johnny Stallings is the genial host. Bring copies of some of the plays—(optional). We will make up the “curriculum” as we go along. This is an Open Road event. You’re invited! \n  \n\n\nArtspace Room at Taborspace\, 5441 SE Belmont \nFriday evenings\, July 19th & 26th\, August 2nd & 9th: 7-9 pm \nsuggested donation $5 per class    \n\n  \nIf you have questions\, you can email me at: stallingsjohnny.com \n  \npeace\, love & poetry \n  \nJohnny \n 
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