Online Retreat: Our Bodies Break Light
Day 2
‘There is no inside or outside, there’s just the world and we are part of the world.’
Paramananda
Resources for Day 2:
Monday 8am
Welcome to Day 2
Salute to the Three Jewels
Poem
45 min unled meditation – open sit with bells at the beginning and the end.
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
John O’Donohue
Monday 10.30am
Talk by Paramananda
Led meditation
Lying down
Meditation
Overland to the Islands
Let’s go — much as that dog goes,
intently haphazard. The
Mexican light on a day that
“smells like autumn in Connecticut”
makes iris ripples on his
black gleaming fur — and that too
is as one would desire — a radiance
consorting with the dance.
Under his feet
rock and mud, his imagination, sniffing,
engaged in its perceptions — dancing
edgeways, there’s nothing
the dog disdains on his way,
nevertheless he
keeps moving, changing
pace and approach but
not direction — “every step an arrival.”
Denise Levertov
Monday 4 pm
Meditation led by Bodhilila
Q & A with Paramananda and Bodhilila
