Sunday Mindfulness Meditation Group
This Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Sunday on Zoom from 9:30am-11:00am Pacific
Virtual mindfulness meditation, talk, and discussion.
I will also incorporate some of the latest neuroscience.
No prior experience necessary. This is a gentle session open to beginners as well as advanced students.
We will practice Tonglen (Compassionate Breathing) for the people of Ukraine & Russia
I will give a talk and we will have a discussion on Chapter 10 -The 3 Marks of Existence
from the book
When Things Fall Apart
by Pema Chodron
You need not read or have the book to participate
When: March 6th, Sunday 9:30 am Pacific Time (US and Canada)-11:00am
Often peace is taught as the fourth mark io existence. This isn’t the peace that is the opposite of war. It’s the well being that comes when we can see the infinite pairs of opposites as complementary. If there is beauty, there must be ugliness. If there is right, there is a wrong. Wisdom and ignorance cannot be separated. This is an old truth-one that men and women like ourselves have been discovering for a long time. Cultivating moment to moment curiosity, as we just might find that day by day this kind of peace dawns on us, and we begin to understand what all the books have been talking about. -Pema
“A man’s only son was reported dead in battle. Inconsolable, the father locked himself in his house for three weeks, refusing all support and kindness. In the fourth week the son returned home. Seeing that he was not dead, the people of the village were moved to tears. Overjoyed, they accompanied the young man to his father’s house and knocked on the door.
“Father,” called the son, “I have returned.”
But the old man refused to answer. “Your son is here, he was not killed,” called the people. But the old man would not come to the door.
“Go away and leave me to grieve!” he screamed. “I know my son is gone forever and you cannot deceive me with your lies.”
So it is with all of us. We are certain about who we are and who others are and it blinds us. If another version of reality comes knocking on our door, our fixed ideas keep us from accepting it.
Sending Love and Peaceful Wishes for the people of Ukraine.
Deep Bows,
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