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Friday Night Schedule
Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:45.
1716A Linden Avenue (door on the right)
Friday, October 14 -- "Monsters Under the Bed" podcast with Ken McLeod, George Draffan, Claudia Hanssen.
Friday, October 21 -- OFF
Friday, October 28 -- Dalai Lama: The Four Noble Truths
Thursday, November 3 -- Retreat starts at 7:30 p.m. Ends Sunday after lunch.
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The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and, most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
The diminishing of your grasping is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness." When you live in that wisdom home, you'll no longer find a barrier between "I" and "you," "this" and "that," "inside" and "outside"; you'll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of nonduality.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche
A sign of imbalance is that things become increasingly harder and require more effort. A sign of balance is that doors just open. Another way this is often talked about is being in tune with things. Balance facilitates opening. Imbalance produces suffering. Balance is the optimum condition for presence to arise. Imbalance requires you to exert more and more effort to experience things as they are. The implications of that are internally you resort more and more to compensating behaviors and suppression, and externally the world becomes more and more problematic.
--Ken McLeod, Buddhist teacher and writer
"Without attention, it's is all conditioning, it's all patterns. Without attention, there is no intention. There is no on-going awareness, it's just reaction. It may be very strong reaction, but it's just reaction."
--Ken McLeod, Buddhist teacher and writer
To cultivate attention, it is sufficient to rely on one basic principle: return again and again to what is already there. Our body knows how to sit straight. Our breath knows how to flow naturally. Our mind and heart already know how to rest. In this practice, we simply allow them to do that. Whenever there is a disturbance, we return to what is already there.
--Ken McLeod, Buddhist teacher and writer
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