Mandala of the Heart – Thursday
Online Retreat: Mandala of the Heart
Thursday 29 July
‘Energy can’t be destroyed, only changed or transformed’
Recordings
8am
Saluting the 3 Jewels
Poem
Unled 45 min meditation with bells to mark 5 stages
Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Raymond Carver
10.30 am
Talk by Bodhilila
Amoghasiddhi mantra
Walking
Amitabha mantra (plain chant)
Just sitting
Amitabha mantra (melodic)
Sting, The Shape of my Heart
Tantric precepts
1. Do not obstruct the energy of another person.
2. Do not drain the energy of others and give freely of your own energy.
3. Do not misuse energy.
4. Using for whatever purpose the energy appropriate for that purpose, not inappropriate energy.
5. Do not allow energy to become turgid and to keep it bright and clear.
4pm
Meditation led by Paramananda
Q&A with Paramananda and Bodhilila
When the heart
Is cut or cracked or broken,
Do not clutch it;
Let the wound lie open.
Let the wind
From the good old sea blow in
To bathe the wound with salt,
And let it sting.
Let a stray dog lick it,
Let a bird lean in the hole and sing
A simple song like a tiny bell,
And let it ring.
Michael Leunig
