In my weekly chapter meeting with my fellow ordained brothers we agreed to make ‘Beauty and Pleasure’ our theme yesterday evening. I made a few notes prior to the evening and tried to recollect things in my life that I experience related …
Something I’ve been noticing lately is how much my emotional and mental states jump around. I do wonder if it has something to do with these extraordinary times we’re living in. I find there is both beauty and challenge in …
On Sunday morning I prefaced our meditation by talking about the Four Sublime Abodes – also known as The Brahma Viharas (dwelling places of the gods). These are well known ways of describing four expressions of kindness (metta). So in …
I’m really enjoying our online meditations ….. They were something I was unsure about in advance but now we’re up and running I’m experiencing them as something precious. No commuting time, meeting each other from the intimacy of our homes …