Online Retreat: There is a Field

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Day 5

Resources for Day 5:

‘a potential space, an open space where anything can happen…’

Bodhilila

Thursday 8am

Welcome to Day 5
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

Thursday10.30am

Approx timings
Welcome and salute to the 3 Jewels
Talk by Bodhilila
Led meditation (57 mins)
Lying down (1hr 28 mins)
Ella (1hr 45 mins)

‘It’s bigger on the inside than the outside!’

said by many, many characters on Dr Who

Tuesday 4pm (pt.1)

Meditation led by Paramananda.

Tuesday 4pm (pt.2)

Q & A session with Paramananda and Bodhilila.

May my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile

e.e.cummings

A musical offering from Bodhilila…..

Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime