Exploring the watery qualities of the heart. Longing as heart's response to it's own vastness. The movement from the depths to the surface.
A preamble to a Tara Puja given on the GFR Metta as a Path to Insight retreat held at Taraloka February 2016
Beginning to look at Metta with Dharma as reference. Shifting focus from content to nature of our experience - a natural movement in meditation.
Understanding that the labels we put onto our experience are not the same as our actual experience.
Followed by a led meditation exploring these areas.
Looking into Metta with Dharma as reference. Dayajoti investigates the nature of the conditions giving rise to our experience - exploring resistance, dukkha and impermanence and the way we fix our experience with labels.
A 5 stage practice - beginning with our heart wish and resonating with where freedom actually lies.
From a GFR retreat - Metta as a Path to Insight held at Taraloka in February 2016
Exploring how to be fully present and open to experience without getting caught up in it. To feel fully and to let go, not to solidify around feelings.
Responding to questions about metta. Looking at the difference between taking in anger and violence rather than suffering within the anger. What resources do we have available to us to do this?
Because there’s more to life!
And the world needs change…
Monthly gatherings for young people aged 18-25 (ish)
Starting Sunday October 16
5-6.30pm (with a tea break)
✨ meet with other young people who care about the world’s problems
✨ discuss the Buddha’s insights about freedom, radical loving-kindness and social transformation
✨ learn to meditate - and make your own mind happier
“This year the Vancouver Buddhist Centre has moved into a new big space to accommodate the needs of its thriving Sangha. There is currently around thirty Mitras and five Order Members in Vancouver. And later this year there’s also a plan to start a Young Buddhist group at the Centre!”
Check out the presentation here to find out more about this up-and-coming Sangha!
