Sangha Day Festival: two
TALK 1- Fixed self view
Nowadays, there can be a tendency to keep relationships superficial and not very real through:
Social media
Being nice and polite
Not engaging really with people. People are like moving pictures in my life with no deep meaning.
Trying to keep the sensation of them pleasant over being more real with them.
MEDITATION 1_
What does my heart really want in my relationships with people? What does my heart really want from the sangha?
To go deeper with the sangha, what do we need to do?
1- Be honest with ourselves (example from Jutika- gave permission to others to voice difficulties in the chapter, she felt better)
2- Go deeper into ourselves and our experience of life. Gandhavyuha sutra- Indra’s net reflect other beings. We reflect everybody else. We are all connected- all mental states can be experienced within, and we can help others to break through- It takes effort to touch our own depth of experience. We get distracted.
3- Manage to communicate our depth as skillfully as possible.
4- Create gravitas- SV’s atom story and allow electrons to be around the nucleus. Allow them to stay with each other long enough. The natural way of things is depth and deepening if they just stick around long enough.
5- Be an individual not a copycat. There is a sense of different views in different parts of the world. We feel a bit threatened if we feel like we have a different opinion, or if our opinions are challenged.
Nowadays, there can be a tendency to keep relationships superficial and not very real through:
Social media
Being nice and polite
Not engaging really with people. People are like moving pictures in my life with no deep meaning.
Trying to keep the sensation of them pleasant over being more real with them.
MEDITATION 1_
What does my heart really want in my relationships with people? What does my heart really want from the sangha?
To go deeper with the sangha, what do we need to do?
1- Be honest with ourselves (example from Jutika- gave permission to others to voice difficulties in the chapter, she felt better)
2- Go deeper into ourselves and our experience of life. Gandhavyuha sutra- Indra’s net reflect other beings. We reflect everybody else. We are all connected- all mental states can be experienced within, and we can help others to break through- It takes effort to touch our own depth of experience. We get distracted.
3- Manage to communicate our depth as skillfully as possible.
4- Create gravitas- SV’s atom story and allow electrons to be around the nucleus. Allow them to stay with each other long enough. The natural way of things is depth and deepening if they just stick around long enough.
5- Be an individual not a copycat. There is a sense of different views in different parts of the world. We feel a bit threatened if we feel like we have a different opinion, or if our opinions are challenged.
FIXED SELF VIEW
6- The way we view political events is often determined by media output and family conditioning. What holds us back is often the fear of being alone. Realising this is a step towards more freedom.
7- We are free to change- reality is open. Don’t accept yourself. If you constantly accept superficial relationships and what everybody else tells you you should be, it will be hard to make progress.
8- Be open to blind spots being pointed out and learn to receive this with more gratitude rather than anger.
9- Rejoice in merit and value others. Be a true friend and communicate your experience of them.
MEDITATION 2-
How do I deepen my relationship with myself? What are the things I feel I can’t change in relation to my relationships with others?
Try to communicate it after the meditation.
6- The way we view political events is often determined by media output and family conditioning. What holds us back is often the fear of being alone. Realising this is a step towards more freedom.
7- We are free to change- reality is open. Don’t accept yourself. If you constantly accept superficial relationships and what everybody else tells you you should be, it will be hard to make progress.
8- Be open to blind spots being pointed out and learn to receive this with more gratitude rather than anger.
9- Rejoice in merit and value others. Be a true friend and communicate your experience of them.
MEDITATION 2-
How do I deepen my relationship with myself? What are the things I feel I can’t change in relation to my relationships with others?
Try to communicate it after the meditation.
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