From Strands 

The last course is the course of relationship and community. This is the course that brings all the seemingly separate parts of our life together into a harmonious whole. It’s the course that turns all the other courses—spirituality, livelihood, social action, and study—into a joyous feast.

From Instructions to the Cook by Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields

Family

Friends

Communities

Teachers

Caregivers

Healers

My (mostly fantasy) love life before Mary

Public figures

Dialog Dimension Table of Contents

Passion

The padma family glows with the vitality of red energy. Padma sanity is a finely-tuned intuition that discriminates subtle experiences without bias. When people manifest the wisdom aspect of padma, they are engaging, magnetizing and charming. This energy listens deeply and speaks from the heart. Padma also can have an obsessive desire to magnetize and grasp the most pleasurable and ideal situations. When people manifest its confused quality, they can cling to what gives pleasure, are overly emotional, and perpetually seek confirmation.

From “The Five Buddha Families” by Irini Rockwell, Lion’s Roar online, September 5, 2018