Thursday, January 16, 2014

New Year's Class

Let go of the resolution or intention you planned, and listen deeply to your body.

Meditate with your body.  Allow your awareness to rest on sensation.  Go towards feelings.  Be interested in images and dreams.

"Buddhism invites us to take seriously our entire human existence, to take everything in our life "as the path".  It proposes that everything that ever happens to us is part of our journey towards realization.  There is finally nothing that leads us away, no possibility of true regression, no actual mistake; everything is learning, opening, and moving forward, even when the opposite seems to be the case.  This leads to a kind of fundamental and boundless optimism about what human life is and why we are here, and an underlying trust that runs through life's most difficult circumstances."
-- Reginald Ray, Touching Enlightenment, p. 16

"We sense that our mediation has become an invitation for the body to begin showing us things."

"Thus it is that we find that we have a partner on the spiritual path that we didn't know about-- our own body." p.59