Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first lines of a book, a speech, a song, a movie, often points to the subject or theme that will be explored in the work. (You can probably think of several opening lines that have stayed with you over the years.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christina Feldman starts A Boundless Heart<\/em> with this paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no greater love than the immeasurable friendliness that can embrace all beings, all events, and all experiences with unshakeable kindness. There is no compassion greater than the fearless heart that can turn toward suffering and pain, tremble with empathy, and live with the commitment to end the causes of anguish. There is no greater happiness than inwardly generated joy and peace. There is no equanimity more unshakeable than the profound poise of the liberated heart that can meet the world of ungraspable conditions and events without being shattered.<\/p>page 1<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n This is what we’re going to explore this month – these qualities of heart-mind that we can bring into our meditation and, more importantly, into our lives, as we relate to one another and ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like the opening sentence of a book, we can start our meditation, our day, our month, and so on, by setting an intention. This can help us determine our purpose\/values\/aim and can help us realign when we find we’ve veered off course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want a bit of inspiration, here’s a 16 minute meditation and talk by Oren Jay Sofer: Note – for dharmaseed.org, if you’re listening on a mobile device, you probably have to choose the “download” option. On Chrome or other browsers, you may have to click on the box where the player is to enable the Flash Player.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n What brought you to meditation, to this month? What’s your “opening sentence”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n With warm wishes, Dear Friends, The first lines of a book, a speech, a song, a movie, often points to the subject or theme that will be explored in the work. (You can probably think of several opening lines that have stayed with you over the years.) Christina Feldman starts A Boundless Heart with this paragraph: There is no greater love\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[162],"tags":[137,69,119],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2019","tag-christina-feldman","tag-intention","tag-oren-j-sofer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2018-04-20 Guided Meditation: Settling and Arriving<\/a>
https:\/\/www.dharmaseed.org\/teacher\/248\/talk\/49656\/<\/a>
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Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"