Roots in Sky – Thursday
Online Retreat: Roots in the Sky
Thursday 27 January
Recordings
8am
Salute to the 3 Jewels
Refuge verses from the Avatamsaka Sutra
Teaching from Padmasambhava
Unled meditation with bells to mark 5 stages
‘Saying there are obstacles will get you nowhere: do what you can at the time,’
from Padmasambhava’s Advice and Admonition to the Revealers of Treasures
10.30 am
Talk by Bodhilila
Led meditation
Lying down with sounds from singing bowls
Amitabha mantra (not Avalokitesvara!)
Just Sitting
“Then, Bahiya, you should train yourself thus:
In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen.
In reference to the heard, only the heard.
In reference to the sensed, only the sensed.
In reference to the cognized, only the cognized.
That is how you should train yourself.
When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard,
only the sensed in reference to the sensed,
only the cognized in reference to the cognized,
then, Bahiya, there is no you in terms of that.
When there is no you in terms of that, there is no you there. When there is no you there,
you are neither here nor yonder
nor between the two.
This, just this, is the end of stress [dukkha].”
translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
4pm
Six Element Meditation led by Paramananda
