Fri, 20 Nov, 7.30 – 9.30pm
期待共修时见到您。Looking forward to sharing this practice with you.
When the sun rises… empty space does NOT gain in brightness
When the sun sets… empty space does NOT darken
Light and dark are just phenomena within empty space that alternate with each other…
BUT the nature of empty space itself remains unchanged
~ Zen Master Huang Po
Sunrise and sunset within empty space – is like our thoughts and emotions (i.e., mental activity) rising and setting within our minds.
Meditation opens a gateway into this larger space by relaxing our tendency to identify with the thoughts and emotions that usually fill it up.This capacity to relax and trust in the open space of being is essential in creative work. Artists, scientists, inventors, and mathematicians often make their most creative discoveries in moments when they are not directly concentrating on the problem at hand, but relaxing and giving it space to be. The deepest spiritual realizations also arise out of this alert empty-mindedness, which allows the mind to move upon silence, into self-arising wisdom.Come and experience this relaxed state into the expansiveness.
We look forward to your loving presence.
Date: 6 Nov 2015, Friday
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: 妙心林 Good Hearts Garden, Singapore
Please wear comfortable clothing as we will be seated on the floor.
With Loving Kindness,
Jian Xin Shifu
About Venerable Shi Jian Xin
Venerable Jian Xin also holds a Specialist Diploma in Counselling and Guidance and a Postgraduate Diploma in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy. She used to work as a professional Counsellor and Therapist for 15 years. She has assisted many individuals to gain insights, clarity and direction in their lives. She has also been trained in group facilitation and has conducted numerous personal transformation workshops.
Since her first encounter with Buddhist teachings at the age of 15, her life has been greatly transformed. She now shares the teachings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and aspires to assist in the awakening of individuals.
期待共修时见到您。Looking forward to sharing this practice with you.
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
Renunciation Day of Bodhisattva Guan Yin falls on 31 Oct (19th Day of the 9th Lunar Month) this year.
Let’s come together to celebrate this auspicious day.
Bodhisattva Guan Yin has touched countless lives all these thousands of years with Her Great Compassion.
We will share more about Her Great Compassion Aspirations and meditate on Her Great Compassion and Loving Kindness.
Date: 30 Oct 2015, Tuesday
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: 妙心林 Good Hearts Garden, Singapore
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“Namo Great Compassionate Avalokitesvara,
May I quickly know all Dharmas”
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Looking forward to your presence.
Please wear comfortable clothing as we will be seated on the floor.
With Loving Kindness,
Jian Xin Shifu
About Venerable Shi Jian Xin
Venerable Jian Xin also holds a Specialist Diploma in Counselling and Guidance and a Postgraduate Diploma in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy. She used to work as a professional Counsellor and Therapist for 15 years. She has assisted many individuals to gain insights, clarity and direction in their lives. She has also been trained in group facilitation and has conducted numerous personal transformation workshops.
Since her first encounter with Buddhist teachings at the age of 15, her life has been greatly transformed. She now shares the teachings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and aspires to assist in the awakening of individuals.
- Unobstructed, never limited of confined by the thoughts or feelings arising within it
- Omnipresent, always immediately available, and extending in all directions
- Impartial, allowing everything to be what it is
- Vast, extending infinitely beyond all the mind’s limitations
- Formless, unable to be contained within any conceptual box
- Pure, uncontaminated by anything that arises within it
- Stable, neither arising nor passing away, but the ever-present ground of all passing experience
- Beyond existence, for it cannot be located in any definite way
- Beyond nonexistence, for it is not simply nothing, but rather a clear, bright presence
- Ungraspable, for it cannot be fixed or held on to in any way
Meditation opens a gateway into this larger space by relaxing our tendency to identify with the thoughts and emotions that usually fill it up.
Looking forward to your presence.
Date: 23 Oct 2015, Friday
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: 妙心林 Good Hearts Garden, Singapore
Please wear comfortable clothing as we will be seated on the floor.
With Loving Kindness,
Jian Xin Shifu
About Venerable Shi Jian Xin
Venerable Jian Xin also holds a Specialist Diploma in Counselling and Guidance and a Postgraduate Diploma in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy. She used to work as a professional Counsellor and Therapist for 15 years. She has assisted many individuals to gain insights, clarity and direction in their lives. She has also been trained in group facilitation and has conducted numerous personal transformation workshops.
Since her first encounter with Buddhist teachings at the age of 15, her life has been greatly transformed. She now shares the teachings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and aspires to assist in the awakening of individuals.
期待共修时见到您。Looking forward to sharing this practice with you.
- Unobstructed, never limited of confined by the thoughts or feelings arising within it
- Omnipresent, always immediately available, and extending in all directions
- Impartial, allowing everything to be what it is
- Vast, extending infinitely beyond all the mind’s limitations
- Formless, unable to be contained within any conceptual box
- Pure, uncontaminated by anything that arises within it
- Stable, neither arising nor passing away, but the ever-present ground of all passing experience
- Beyond existence, for it cannot be located in any definite way
- Beyond nonexistence, for it is not simply nothing, but rather a clear, bright presence
- Ungraspable, for it cannot be fixed or held on to in any way
Meditation opens a gateway into this larger space by relaxing our tendency to identify with the thoughts and emotions that usually fill it up.
Looking forward to your presence.
Date: 16 Oct 2015, Friday
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: 妙心林 Good Hearts Garden, Singapore
Please wear comfortable clothing as we will be seated on the floor.
With Loving Kindness,
Jian Xin Shifu
About Venerable Shi Jian Xin
Venerable Jian Xin also holds a Specialist Diploma in Counselling and Guidance and a Postgraduate Diploma in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy. She used to work as a professional Counsellor and Therapist for 15 years. She has assisted many individuals to gain insights, clarity and direction in their lives. She has also been trained in group facilitation and has conducted numerous personal transformation workshops.
Since her first encounter with Buddhist teachings at the age of 15, her life has been greatly transformed. She now shares the teachings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and aspires to assist in the awakening of individuals.