Simple Meditation, Mindful Meditation

A class for those new to meditation, or those wishing to meditate in a group and for those for whom meditation has never worked.

Meditation is an active process and if you want to bring about change in your life, it will require a deliberate engagement on your part. No one else can do this for you and how you approach it is important.

 So bring your curiosity – seeing the world as a child and all is new and amazing; 

Bring your patience – learning to trust the process and letting it unfold is important. 

Do not strive – meditation does not require a goal, the process is the important part of the journey.

We will begin with a simple meditation to connect you to the Earth and find that feeling of support and centeredness

This will be followed by a mindful meditation. 

Come along and bring your curiosity, your willingness to engage in the process of change, and your patience for the journey you begin here. 

Thursday 2^nd July 2015

The White Room

@

The Bank, Eye, Suffolk

7:15 – 8:30pm

£5 or a donation welcome

email: Ellieurs@gmail.com

 

Dealing with Difficult People

http://www.ramdass.org/a-heavy-curriculum/

The Above is the link to some writing by Ram Dass on how we can change perspective on dealing with those difficult people in our lives.

Transformation

If somebody is a problem for you, it’s not that they should change, it’s that you need to change. If they’re a problem for themselves that’s their karma, if they’re causing you trouble that’s your problem on yourself. 

So, in other words when Christ is crucified, he says “forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing”, they’re not a problem for him, he’s trying to get them out of being a problem for themselves, because he’s clear. 

Your job is to clear yourself. In ideal situations you would clear yourself within the situation, but very often it’s too thick and you can’t do that.

Now, what you do then is you pull back and you do the stuff you do in the morning or at night before you go to work, you do the stuff on weekends, you do the stuff that quiets you down and then each time you go into the situation to where you have to work, you lose it again. 

And then you go home and you see how you lost it, and you examine it, and then you go the next day and you lose it again, and you go home and you keep a little diary “how did I lose it today”, and you saw that, and then you go and you do it again, and after a while as you’re starting to lose it you don’t buy in so much. 

You start to watch the mechanics of what it is that makes you lose it all the time.

If I’m not appreciated, that’s your problem that you don’t appreciate me. 

Unless I need your love, then it’s my problem. So my needs are what are giving you the power over me. 

Those people’s power over you to take you out of your equanimity and love and consciousness has to do with your own attachments and clingings of mind. That’s your work on yourself, that’s where you need to meditate more, it’s where you need to reflect more, it’s where you need a deeper philosophical framework, it’s where you need to cultivate the witness more, it’s where you need to work on practicing opening your heart more in circumstances that aren’t optimum. 

This is your work. 

You were given a heavy curriculum, that’s it. 

There’s no blame, it’s not even wrong, it’s just what you’re given. You hear what I’m saying? It’s interesting. Can you all hear that one?

-Ram Dass, Summer 1989