Online Retreat: Earth, Heart, Sky
Day 4: Heart
Resources for Day 4:
’To lose contact with the heart is to lose contact with our life.’
‘Our practice has to bring us to a point where we can embrace ourselves fully, with all our glory and all our despair’.
Paramananda
Thursday 8am
Welcome to Day 4.
Poem (The Sun Never says by Hafiz).
45 min unled meditation with bells marking 5 stages.
The Sun Never Says
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
” You owe me. “
Look
What happens
with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
Hafiz
Thursday 10.30am
Talk
28 mins Bodhilila on posture and being kind to our bodies
35 mins Bodyscan
1 hr 8 mins Silent tea
1 hr 12 mins Butterfly Metta, unled sit
1 hr 32 mins Amitabha mantra
With That Moon Language
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them,
” Love me. “
Of course you do not do this out loud,
Otherwise, someone would call the cops.
Still though, think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon
in each eye
That is always saying,
With that sweet moon language,
What every other eye
In this world
Is dying to hear.
Hafiz
Thursday 4pm pt1
Open sit (unled) with Paramananda.
‘Ring the bells (ring the bells) that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)
That’s how the light gets in’
from Anthem by Leonard Cohen
Thursday 4pm pt2
Exploring Meditation; responses from Paramananda and Bodhilila during the Q&A session.
