Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.

Ways of relating to images; using or not using the list of characteristics; characteristics of eros and distinguishing it from clinging, energy body as a guide, theatre-like quality and the risk if this isn’t acknowledged, meaningfulness, two-ness, autonomy.

Unlimited possibilities for images with a range of examples, including God and gods, wild images, images based on people, the sense of being called, image with no figure, embodying an image, felt sense and image of spirit of place; putting aside questions about the reality status of images; Eucharistic imagination; fully and partially imaginal images; Iain McGilchrist on left brain right brain, and the world not being given before it’s experienced; Rob Burbea’s list of elements or characteristics and the characteristics: two-ness, unfathomable quality, participation, loving and being loved; different orientations of imaginal and insight practices.

Reading a short text by Franz Kafka ('Before the Law') – what can we learn from that gatekeeper? 3 ways to counter the feeding power of aversion or hostility to thoughts: gentle questioning, turning towards, making space. Stickiness: thinking & identity.