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Schedule
Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:45.
1716A Linden Avenue (door on the right)
Coming in April at
First Unitarian Universalist Church
All events are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 4, 7:30 p.m. -- Public talk by Zen teacher Michael Elliston, hosted by the Nashville Zen Center. Michael is Abbot of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and a respected leader among zen practitioners.
Wednesdays, April 11 - May 2, 7:00-8:30 pm -- Rita Frizzell will be teaching a class based on Ken McLeod's work, Releasing Emotional Reactions. Come work with these methods for coming to completely know your experience.
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Whatever thoughts and emotions arise in meditation, allow them to rise and settle, like the waves in the ocean. Whatever you find yourself thinking, let that thought rise and settle, without any constraint. Don't grasp at it, feed it, or indulge it, don't cling to it, and don't try to solidify it. Neither follow thoughts nor invite them; be like the ocean looking at its own waves, or the sky gazing down on the clouds that pass across it.
You will soon find that thoughts are like the wind; they come and go. The secret is not to "think" about the thoughts but to allow them to flow through your mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.
--Sogyal Rinpoche
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This week is Session 2 in our wonderful new series by Pema Chodron, Noble Heart. Tonight is a meditation workshop with Pema: "Cultivating Unconditional Friendliness Through Meditation." She will talk us through such instructions as gentleness, precision and letting go.