Online Retreat: There is a Field
Day 4
Resources for Day 4:
Wednesday 8am
Welcome to Day 4, led intro to meditation
Rumi Poem
40 min unled meditation with bells marking 5 stages.
Out beyond ideas
of wrong doing and right doing
there is a field
I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down
in that grass
the world is too full
to speak of.
Ideas, language even the notion
one another
makes no sense.
Rumi
Wednesday 10.30am
Approx timings
Welcome and thoughts on this stage of the retreat
Talk by Paramananda
Led meditation (35 mins)
Lying down with drumming and Vajrasattva mantra (1 hr 5 mins)
Sitting meditation (1 hr 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.
Derek Walcot
Tuesday 4pm (pt.1)
Meditation led by Paramananda
Tuesday 4pm (pt.2)
Q & A session with Paramananda and Bodhilila.
‘What we need now is an embodied love for the world.’
