Regarding Appropriation

In getting involved with different spiritual traditions, there’s always the question of cultural appropriation. Maybe never more so than today. So - along with respect for the people who’ve carried these traditions in their minds and bones, I also hold the question of what the energies of any given tradition want. Do the celestial energies of Daoism or the deities of Tibetan Buddhism want to express themselves here? Do they want to express themselves in the Canadian Rockies? Or in the new and strange realm of Zoom? Are they most at home with their oldest friends, or is the whole world their home? The bottom line discipline is respect. And mixed in with that, an openness to the new.