Expensive Toby,
I hope you have got loved the Christmas break & run as much as the brand new yr!
Listed here are the first occasions for January 2024, beginning with the brand new years meditation:
Tues 2nd, Weds third January – 2024 New year ‘Beginners mind’ meditation
Tuesday/Wednesday night 9/10th January – Effortless effort – The art of doing by non-doing, a ten-week meditation course
Saturday thirteenth January, 9.30am-12.30pm – An Introduction to Integral Mindfulness & Meditation Practice 3 hour workshop
Saturday twentieth January, 9am-12.30pm – Qi Gong for Improving your Health and Energy Levels and for Self-Healing
I’ve positioned under a brief meditation story & reflection from my vacation, I hope you take pleasure in it!
Within the spirit of awakening,
Toby
What will probably be with you unto the tip of the world?
I spent a really windy Christmas with my household on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. Close to the home within the village the place we had been staying was a small struggle memorial church. Throughout the stained-glass window on the entrance of the church was a quote from the Bible, New Testomony, Matthew 28.20:
‘Lo, I’m with you all the time, even unto the tip of the world’
I spent twenty minutes or so quietly meditating within the church with this quote. By conference it seems like an individual expressing their religion in an everlasting (outer) God. Nevertheless, from a meditation perspective, I discovered that it fitted very properly as a sort of ‘Zen koan’. When you flip the quote right into a query, you get one thing like this:
‘What’s it that’s with you all the time, even unto the tip of the world?’
On the earth of outer kind, and on the earth of inside kind (thoughts) after all all the things is altering. Issues and ideas come and go, we reside and die, secure issues turn into unstable. None of these items are ‘with us all the time’, definitely not till the tip of the world.
Nevertheless, in every second the expertise of consciousness itself, with out outer or inside kind stays a relentless and secure function of our expereince. If we will sit and pay attention to that which is acutely aware inside us, we uncover experientially a supply of formless, timeless presence that’s with us, unchanging actually ‘till the tip of the world’. It was additionally current with us in any respect phases in our previous, and was ‘our unique face earlier than we had been born’, as they are saying in Zen.
So, in case you like you should utilize this query as an entry level to the formless, timeless current in your meditation and contemplations. Whenever you lose it, simply re-ask the query, and re-centre your self within the expertise of consciousness itself.
Associated article: Dynamic calm – working with Zen koans
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