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  Drop the Weight of the World https://www.spreaker.com/episode/drop-the-weight-of-the-world--71015334 You think you're helping your community, but what if you're actually holding it back? We throw around the word "Ujima"—Collective Work and Responsibility—but most of us are practicing it backwards. We’ve been conditioned to believe that being a good friend, a good family member, or a pillar of the community means sacrificing our own peace to carry everyone else’s chaos. Are you playing the savior in a situation where the other person doesn't even want to be saved? Are you gripping so tightly to the idea of "family loyalty" that you're suffocating your own joy? There is a massive difference between building together and bleeding out together. If your version of community work leaves you drained, bitter, and exhausted, you aren't practicing Ujima. You're just repeating a cycle. Call to Inaction A hand clutched tight around poison cannot accept...
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God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
-Swedish Proverb

Let the spirit out – Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
Bruce Lee

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