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Overview

Today I share a brief story about a lesson taught to my son and I by Teacher Heron, and encourage us to turn to the Natural world in order to absorb Her deepest lessons.

Chapters

* 00:00 Introduction: Nature as Teacher

* 02:25 A Meditation Lesson from a Heron

* 06:21 Small Moments, Many Times

References

* 01:33 American Transcendentalism, Wikipedia

* 01:40 Emerson’s Nature (PDF), Project Gutenberg

* 02:42 Habitat Education Center & Wildlife Sanctuary, Mass Audubon

* 06:35 Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tergar

*I support the democratization and crowdsourcing of knowledge, and I regard platforms such as Wikipedia as valid and valuable repositories of human knowledge that help balance academic gatekeeping of epistemic authority. I also value rigorous fact-checking and common sense.

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