Somatic Going For Refuge: Embodying True Safety, Dignity and Belonging As a Path of Collective Awakening
by Free Buddhist Audio, 19/06/2024 00:00
This talk was given at the June 2024 Women's Area Order Weekend themed "I am because we are". In it, Singhashri reminds us of Bhante's emphasis on the development of the true individual, positive group and spiritual community. She then links an embodied and relational approach to our individual and collective going for refuge, encouraging us to explore how a direct experience of safety, dignity and belonging in the sangha might support collective awakening. She ends by sharing specific ways we may practice "somatic going for refuge" which she describes as not a new level of going for refuge, but rather a way of practicing that we can "needle through" our lives from provisional to cosmic going forth.