The Columbia City Yoga on-line Moving into Meditation class met this morning. In today’s class we explored the ways our inter-being can help us to respond to the world. Dancing joyfully under the cherry trees and demonstrating our truth on city streets are expressions of deep caring and aliveness. They are both ways of bringing our practice alive in the world.
We drew inspiration from Annaka Harris’ new audio documentary, Lights On. In Lights On, neuroscience writer Annaka Harris draws on conversations with neuroscientists, physicists and meditators to explore consciousness. These fascinating conversations explore the nature of consciousness. How do we perceive ourselves and the world? How do these queries relate to human flourishing? As a listener, I came away with a deeper appreciation of the miracle of awareness and the mystery of consciousness.
We heard Maria Popova’s poem inspired by the Field Bunting drawn from her exquisite Almanac of Birds: Divinations from Uncertain Days. She introduces this work with these affirming words:
As we enter each other’s worlds in love — whatever its shape or species — we double our way of seeing, broaden our way of being, magnify our sense of wonder, and wonder is our best means of loving the world more deeply.