Poetics of Awakening – Wednesday
Day 4
28th September
‘We try to express our love for the world by sitting’
Paramananda
Session 1 – 9am
Programme
Talk by Paramananda
Cosmic Meditation led by Paramananda
Short break
Short meditation led by Paramananda (breathing into and through the heart)
Recordings
To follow the way is to study the self
To study the self is to forget the self
To forget the self is to be illuminated by the myriad of things
To be illuminated by the myriad of things is to move beyond any idea of attainment
To move beyond any idea of attainment is to follow the way.
— Dogen
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
Session 2 – 3.30pm
Programme
Meditation led by Paramananda
Q & A with Paramananda
Recordings
Session 3 – 7.30pm
Programme
Reflections on Paramananda’s talk
Just sitting
Sevenfold Puja led by Bodhilila and Ratnadeva
With Tara mantra led by Ratnadeva
Heart Sutra read by Ratnadeva
Padmasambhava mantra led by Bodhilila
Recordings
