West London Buddhist Centre

Online Retreat: Earth, Heart, Sky

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 Day 1: Earth

 

Resources for Day 1:

‘We realise the nature of reality primarily  through our selves, our own bodies.’

‘We have to learn to love ourselves not because we’re perfect but because we’re wounded and imperfect’

’’There’s no such thing as meditation, there’s just meditators.’

Paramananda

Monday 8am

Approximate timings
Welcome
2 mins Dedication Ceremony
7 mins 40 Poem and meditation

 

 

 

 

Monday 10:30 am

Intro to retreat
7 mins Paramananda’s talk
25 mins Paramananda introduces meditation session and laying down followed by poem (Earth by Derek Walcott) and led meditation,
1hr 13 mins laying down
1hr 39 mins Just Sitting

 

 

 

Monday 4pm

Led meditation by Paramananda (21 mins)

 

 

 

Earth

Let the day grow on you upward
through your feet,
the vegetal knuckles,

to your knees of stone,
until by evening you are a black tree;
feel, with evening,

the swifts thicken your hair,
the new moon rising out of your forehead,
and the moonlit veins of silver

running from your armpits
like rivulets under white leaves.
Sleep, as ants

cross over your eyelids.
You have never possessed anything
as deeply as this.

This is all you have owned
from the first outcry
through forever;

You can never be dispossessed.

by Derek Walcott

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