If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.~Buddha
Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation, we will be sitting from 7:30 to 10:00 PM EST. It is not necessary to sit for the entire extended time, which is set up to make it convenient for people in four North American Time Zones; sit for as long as you like and when it is most convenient for you.
Monday Group Meditation is open to everyone, believers and non-believers of all stripes who are interested in gathering in silence. If you are new to meditation and would like to try it for yourself, Mindful Nature gave a good description of one way to meditate in an earlier diary, copied and pasted below:
"It is a matter of focusing attention mostly. In many traditions, the idea is to sit and focus on the rising and falling of the breath. Not controlling it, but sitting in a relaxed fashion and merely observing experiences of breathing, sounds, etc. Be aware of your thoughts, but don't engage in them. When your mind wanders (it will, often), then return to focus on breath and repeat."
Hello, everyone. Last Monday night right after our meditation my computer crashed. I'm told I will be lucky if I have it back before Thanksgiving. So here I am typing this on a library computer, thinking I need something for Monday quickly....Flower Sermon. :-)
So if this diary posts with an auto Tip Jar, please know I am every bit as much here as any other Monday, but I will have only a temperamental tiny Kindle Fire, aka tk, to post from. Depending on which version of Daily Kos it allows me to load I may or may not be able to recommend comments.