MWA Newsletter, -  Mar 16, 2020

MWA newsletter: STOPPING

Dear Friends of Mountains and Waters Alliance:

There is a pandemic. We do not know what is coming, or how long it will last. This is just a note with a few practical thoughts.

We’ve closed down all group activities here. This leaves more time for writing, meditation, land care, energy healing – the core activities. I invite you to a few things:

• Zazen every morning at 6 Central Time. You’re invited to join me from where you are. No internet now, maybe later.
• Please use this website to stay in touch if you like – to say that you are sitting meditation with us, or whatever healing work you may be doing where you are – including self-healing, prayers, energy healing, and service work such as running errands for people who need to quarantine. We’re not close enough to share such service physically, but we can share encouragement and creativity.
• You’re welcome – no, encouraged – to post poems and writings there if you like.
• If you have found a reliable online source of pandemic information, please post it too.
• We’ll use the “Study/action” category of the website for all of this, so please make sure you’re signed up for it if you’d like to be part of the conversation.

Please honor the safety restrictions. It’s a pandemic, there’s no herd immunity, and the last time we had one of these (1918) a lot of people died. Though I’m not personally worried, I’m following guidelines (mostly staying home) in order to protect others. It is possible to transmit the virus before having symptoms.

If you’re local and need help of some kind, let me know. I expect to go out once a week. If you would like to come and walk in the woods or work outdoors, you’re more than welcome.

I’m very aware of relying on the internet. If it were to crash, I would lose my phone service as well.

I’ll write more later; trying to get this out now.

Warmly,

Shodo