Our Moving into Meditation class explored what it means to live with a trusting heart.  We drew inspiration from Jack Kornfield’s book, No Time Like the Present:  Finding Freedom, Love and Joy Right Where You Are. In Chapter 5, Fear of Freedom.  In this chapter, Jack explores the various ways our fears curtail our freedom and full engagement with life.  He suggests that we can use loving awareness as a way of cultivating the courage and inner stability we need to take chances and embrace life fully.

We also explored poet Jane Hirshfield’s views about creativity and mediation as outlined in her Tricycle Magazine interview, Felt in its Fullness.  Jane asserts that art and meditation are both awareness practices that are essential to personal transformation.

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Our Moving into Meditation class explored what it means to live with a trusting heart.  We drew inspiration from Jack Kornfield’s book, No Time Like the Present:  Finding Freedom, Love and Joy Right Where You Are. In Chapter 4, The Eternal Present, Jack encourages us to live in the present moment.  We were moved by excerpts from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.  Robin is a Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, a poetic writer and passionate advocate of a much more generous and expansive vision of relatedness between humans and the natural world. If this notion inspires you, listen to her On Being interview, The Intelligence in All Kinds of Life.

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Our Moving into Meditation class explored what it means to live with a trusting heart.  We drew inspiration from Jack Kornfield’s book, No Time Like the Present:  Finding Freedom, Love and Joy Right Where You Are. In Chapter 3, Trusting the Living Universe, Jack invites us to trust and let the mystery be.  Poet David Whyte‘s poem, Working Together, is a word dance we enter through life’s ordinary miracles. Continue reading →