An Evening of Deep Spiritual Meditation
The essence of our mind is like space, for it is
- 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 compulsive thinking that usually fills 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 loving presence.
Date: 8 Jun 2012, Friday
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Energy Exchange: Donation of any amount
Venue:
Leksem Ling (Tibetan)
Good Hearts Garden (English)
Miao Xin Lin (Chinese)
Please wear comfortable clothing as we will be seated on the floor.