The Columbia City Yoga on-line Moving into Meditation class met this morning. We reflected on the vast web of inter-being of which we are a part. Our capacity for listening and for witnessing each other arouses deep caring and empathy. When we recognize our shared humanity we realize ourselves as pilgrims in the kinship of time.
We heard Buddhist Chaplain Willa Blythe Baker speak of our human need to be witnessed in her Tricycle Magazine article, Listening as Spiritual Care. She avows a commitment to being a good listener.
We heard Jan Richardson’s beautiful poem, For Those Who Have Far to Travel.
We contemplated ourselves as flows of energy and consciousness embedded in the deep time of past, present and future. We are conditioned by the doings of those in the past and present. Our doings condition the present and the future. The choices we make may be more important that we can know.
In meditation, we created a broad field of loving awareness. We drew on our imagination, kindness, empathy and compassion to include others in our circle of caring.