Here are the notes and community insights from our exploration of holding space, especially in a "liminal" state, a threshold of transition.
We want to fix things, give good advice, control the outcome, or avoid the conversation all together...Holding space is what we do in the liminal space w...
Thoughts on the The Perfection of Patience chapter from The World Could be Otherwise, by Norman Fischer.
Preview on Google Books. Click the Front Cover button, then click The Perfection of Patience
Frodo sighs “I wish it need not have happened in my time.” Gandalf nods, and then dr...
We were online for our Tuesday, March 17th session - having transitioned away from in-person sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic. After sitting meditation, we read and discussed an article by Dr. Christiane Wolf on how mindfulness can help us adapt to the pandemic. She writes:
Mindfulness i...
After sitting and walking meditation, and tea, we read and reflected on an article by Sharon Salzberg about anxiety. What is it? How does it differ from fear? What can we do to relieve it? Salzberg writes:
...anxiety feeds on itself. Sylvia [Boorstein] describes it as a “free-floating hyperacti...
Our topic this week, after sitting and enjoying some tea, is how both meditation practice and expressive arts like writing or taking photos are ways to enter into life more fully. In Mark Nepo's book, Drinking From The River Of Light: The Life of Expression, he writes:
The simplest and hardest...
After tea, we listened to Amanda Palmer reading Wislawa Szymborska's poem, Life While-You-Wait. The poem, translated from Polish, contains these lines:
If only I could just rehearse one Wednesday in advance,
or repeat a single Thursday that has passed!
But here comes Friday with a script I...
After tea, we watched a video on emotional agility and the ways in which we benefit by accepting our emotions as natural. In it, psychologist Susan David observes:
Like that delicious chocolate cake in the refrigerator - the more you try to ignore it, the greater its hold on you. You might thi...
Our discussion was about the tension between trying to control our life and surrendering to what is. As Edward Espe Brown wrote:
At least as important as the activity itself is what we implicitly bring with us when we move into action: the way we see the world and how we go about doing things.....
In honour of Groundhog Day (the day), we explored the lessons for living that can be found in Groundhog Day (the movie). Let's call it, "How Is This A Dharma Movie?"
The idea was to watch in advance and then discuss, which we did!
Where to Watch It
Here are some places to watch the movie:
- N...
We watched and discussed a short video featuring Adyashanti, in which he considers what it would be like to respond to each moment instead of searching for one right answer. Adya says:
Something is always coming into existence and something is always falling out of existence. Because that's the...