Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts Lindsay Bridges

How a brutal motorcycle trail race teaches us all about being alive and using our practice to wake up.

This meditation again draws from the Somatics work of Amanda Blake and Embright Organization, and is offers a strong way to use the body as a rooting anchor of support.



 

Today’s sharing on safety is an inquiry practice into the qualities that make a friendship a safe place and how these qualities are manifesting, or not, in our mindfulness practice.



Note: One quality named was “perspective”. It needs to be acknowledged that a friend offering a larger perspective on an issue can be either helpful or unhelpful— depending on how it is offered...

Opening up to the shared physical nature of our being is an avenue for contemplative experience of safety, connection, and respect.

This time we look at a reliable sense of safety more through the lens of neuroscience/modern psychology as well as introduce the Buddhist practice of lovingkindness-- which was originally taught as an antidote to fear.



 



Discourse on Good Will



From teachings of the Buddha, complied by Jack Kornfield



May all beings be filled with joy and peace. 



May all beings everywhere,



The strong and the weak,



The great and the small,



The short and the long,



The subtle and the gross:



May all beings everywhere,



Seen and unseen,



Dwelling far off or nearby,



Being or waiting to become:



May all be filled with lasting joy.



Let no one deceive another,



Let no one anywhere despise another,



Let no one out of anger or resentment



Wish suffering on anyone at all.



Just as a mother with her own life



Protects her child, her only child, from harm,



So within yourself let grow



So a boundless love for all creatures.



Let your love flow outward through the universe,



To its height, it’s depth, it’s broad extent,



A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.



Then, as you stand or walk,



Sit or lie down,



As long as you are awake,



Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;



Your life will bring heaven to earth.

How do we learn to meet ourselves, just as we are, in a way that provides an internal sense of safety?

 

Erich Fried, translated by: ANNA KALLIO 



It is nonsense

says reason

It is what it is

says love



It is calamity

says calculation

It is nothing but pain

says fear

It is hopeless

says insight

It is what it is

says love



It is ludicrous

says pride

It is foolish

says caution

It is impossible

says experience

It is what it is

says love