This accompanies the talk entitled: Listening for the Deeper Silence

Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth Prayer by Ralph Metzner | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

Enseignement sur la pratique, méditation guidée, enseignement sur la conscience, pratique guidée et questions/réponses

How do we extinguish the fires of greed, hatred and delusion that burn within the mind? The Buddha has thrown us a lifeline. We grab hold of it right here and now – one moment at a time. Free yourself from relentless conceptualizing and the suffering that comes of it. Stop and be aware –  again and again. What is happening within you? The Buddha's first aid is just this – see each moment of turmoil or fear that is assaulting us as impermanent. Witness these feelings of despair or darkness arise and pass away – not what you are. Breathe free. Breath by breath, we let the heart heal – at peace.

Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an icaro by Manari Ushigua | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

The heart’s splendor is known in pure awareness – not tainted by any harmful thought or feeling. It is integrity itself – present now. Traverse from the self, the narrow sense of me and mine, to surrender – knowing that we are nothing of this realm. But this emptiness is a fullness, measureless and complete – so vast that it dwarfs everything. It is universal love, compassion, supremely gentle, kind.  Once known, it can never not be known. We are not separate from awareness. Like the sky. It is always there – a silent homage, our true home.