Roots in Sky – Monday
Online Retreat: Roots in the Sky
Monday 24 January
8am
Teaching from Padmasambhava
Unled meditation with bells to mark 5 stages
‘Disposing yourself to be physically calm, as in an empty house the raindrops slowly gather, relax – do not force your mind or body.’
from Padmasambhava’s Advice to the Three Fortunate Women
10.30 am
Talk by Paramananda
Led meditation
Lying down with drumming
Just sitting
if there are any heavens
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor
a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
it will be a heaven of blackred roses
my father will be(deep like a rose
tall like a rose)
standing near by
(swaying over her
silent)
with eyes which are really petals and see
nothing with the face of a poet really which
is a flower and not a face with
hands
which whisper
This is my beloved my
(suddenly in sunlight
he will bow,
& the whole garden will bow)
by ee cummings
4pm
Brief Q&A with Paramananda and Bodhilila
Speaking from silence – sitting in silence together
Meditation led by Bodhilila
Padmsambhava mantra
