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RETREAT -- Our retreat next weekend, May 21 and 22, is filling up and we will likely need to move to a larger space, so be sure to go ahead and register ASAP at the link below. If you're thinking of coming but can't commit yet, kindly send me a note so I know how to plan. Also, read below to find out how you can follow the blog of our speaker, Greg Bender, who is currently in solitary retreat.
FRIDAY NIGHT -- With all of the stress of this post-flood time, this Friday night we will start with a little longer period of meditation than usual, so please try to arrive early or on time. Then we'll continue with "Wake Up to Your Life," by Ken McLeod, beginning at the bottom of page 64 in Chapter Three, Cultivating Attention. Including - Mindfulness
- Awareness
- Relaxing and Energizing
- Energy Transformation
- Building Momentum
- Developing Attention I
Books are still available for $12 at my house or you can order through this link on our website: hereFriday,
7:00 -9:00 p.m. Door open at 6:45. Location:Home
of Rita Frizzell in the Belmont/Hillsboro neighborhood, 1716A Linden
Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. 615-463-2374. Click here for map.
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Retreat This Month: with Greg Bender
Register Now!
Friday, May 21 - 7:00-9:00 pm
Saturday, May 22 - 10:00 am-5:00 pm with a break for lunch
Registration is now open for our retreat with Greg Bender, which takes place two weeks from now, May 21 and 22. We will meet Friday night at our usual time and Saturday 10-5 with lunch and tea breaks.
Greg has been a practitioner for over 30 years and has been encouraged to teach Mahamudra, a method of direct awareness in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He writes of the topic for this retreat:
"By recognizing and cultivating a manner of being alive, awake and aware in our world, we can embrace the gift of grace, its beauty, kindness, love and compassion. By embracing and sharing grace we come into a sense of joy which engages the world and brings comfort and abundance for ourselves and others around us.
We will discuss the ideas around awareness, grace and joy, contemplate their experience and through meditation open the gate of possibility."
Greg is in solitary retreat in New Mexico for the two weeks prior to his visit, so we will be fortunate to catch the fresh rays of his experience. While in retreat, he is taking the opportunity to blog sparingly at Ken McLeod's ning site. You can get a good sense of where he comes from by reading his musings. Read Greg's retreat blog here.
We are going to keep this retreat focused and intimate, so space is limited. Please register as soon as possible if you're interested so we can get a good head count.
For more information or to register, please click below.
Register Now!
If you have any questions about the event or how to register, please contact me via the email or at 615-463-2374.
Thank you for your attention and response. I look forward to seeing you at the event. May it be a time of Joy, Grace, and Awareness.
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Quote of the Week
When you practice, say you find yourself in a deep state of stillness; often it does not last very long as a thought or a movement always arises, like a wave in the ocean. Don't reject the movement or particularly embrace the stillness, but continue the flow of your pure presence. The pervasive, peaceful state of your meditation is the Rigpa* itself, and all risings are none other than this Rigpa's self-radiance. This is the heart and the basis of Dzogchen practice.
One way to imagine this is as if you were riding on the sun's rays back to the sun: You trace the risings back, at once, to their very root, the ground of Rigpa. As you embody the steadfast stability of the View, you are no longer deceived and distracted by whatever rises, and so cannot fall prey to delusion.
- From Rigpa "Glimpse of the Day" * Rigpa (Skt. vidyā; Wyl. rig pa) is a Tibetan word, which in
general means 'intelligence' or 'awareness'. In Dzogchen, however, the highest teachings in the
Buddhist tradition of Tibet, rigpa has a deeper connotation, 'the
innermost nature of the mind'. The whole of the teaching of Buddha
is directed towards realizing this, our ultimate nature, the state of omniscience or enlightenment -- a truth so universal, so
primordial that it goes beyond all limits, and beyond even religion
itself. (from the Rigpa wiki) |
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Let's wake up!
With love,
Rita Frizzell
Luminous Mind
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