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APRIL 2021 VOLUME 15 ISSUE 2
AWAKENING AND MATURITY
FOR SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS
The graphics for Genjo Marinello’s new book In this book, Genjo Marinello reveals his own
“Reflections on Awakening and Maturity for journey through brokenness and repair, bravely
Spiritual Companions” (just out on SDI Press) and generously, allowing us all to read ourselves
are meant to invoke the Japanese art of Kintsugi into him. After all, who among us hasn’t struggled
(“golden joinery”), a process whereby broken with trauma and loss? And despair when we can’t
items are carefully seamed back together with seem to find our way through?
gold. The results are prized for their aesthetic
value, as a celebration of “wabi-sabi,” or the All of this is the province of spiritual companions,
inherent beauty in the flaws and imperfections of and Genjo expertly shows us how to move
an object. But the concept extends more broadly forward, not just through his insights as a long
into a generalized acceptance of impermanence, time spiritual director, but also in his roles as a
imbued with serene melancholy and spiritual psychotherapist, and, perhaps most significantly,
longing. as a Zen Master (or “Roshi”). Who better to
help us discern our path than someone who has
What a perfect analogy for anyone on a spiritual dedicated his life to doing his own deep work for
path! the sake of others?
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