Poetics of Awakening – Saturday
Day 7
1st October
How can the heart in love ever stop opening?
Rumi
Session 1 – 9am
Programme
Talk by Bodhilila
Just Sitting
Standing meditation
Walking meditation
Lying down
Just Sitting
Dana appeal by Bodhilila – Paypal link for the retreat:
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Recordings
‘It is the pauses which make beautiful the music of our lives.
It is the empty spaces which give richness and significance to them.
And it is stillness which makes them truly useful.’
Sangharakshita from ‘Crossing the Stream’
The Sun Never Says
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
” You owe me. “
Look
What happens
with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
Hafiz
Awake my dear
Be kind to your sleeping heart
Take it out to the vast fields of light and let it breathe
Hafiz
And love says,
‘I will, I will take care of you’
To everything that it is near.
Hafiz
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Session 2 – 3.30pm
Programme
Meditation led by Paramananda
Recordings
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 3 – 7.30pm
Programme
Reflection on retreat journey
3 stage Metta Bhavana meditation
Appreciations and thank yous
Sevenfold Puja led by Bodhilila and Paramananda
Maitri mantra led by Bodhilila
Heart Sutra read by Danadasa
Padmasambhava mantra led by Bodhilila
This being, that becomes,
From the arising of this, that arises,
This not being, that does not become,
From the ceasing of this, that ceases.
Recordings
Awake my dear
Be kind to your sleeping heart
Take it out to the vast fields of light and let it breathe
Rumi
