Reading Archives (Author)

A Bigger Container

Charlotte Joko Beck

We can talk about “oneness” until the cows come home. But how do we actually separate ourselves from others? How? The pride out of which anger is born is what separates us. And the solutio...

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18K reads, 14 comments

Willing to Experience our Suffering

Charlotte Joko Beck

 A few weeks ago someone gave me an interesting article on suffering, and the first part of it was on the meaning of the word – “suffering”. I’m interested in these meanin...

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16K reads, 13 comments

Walking the Razor's Edge

Charlotte Joko Beck

When we aren’t into our personal mischief, life is a seamless whole in which we are so embedded that there is no problem. But we don’t always feel embedded because – while life is ju...

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17K reads, 6 comments

Life is Relationship

Charlotte Joko Beck

Every moment of our life is relationship. There is nothing except relationship. At this moment my relationship is to the rug, to the room, to my own body, to the sound of my voice. There is nothi...

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6K reads