Tuesday, September 08, 2015
News from Anam Cara
September 8, 2015
Anam Cara Meditation Foundation
Perennial Wisdom For The Soul's Journey
Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Dear Friend
The finite mind, bound by layers of identification with self, body, gender, roles, beliefs, groups, memories of the past and fantasies of the future, yearns for liberation, yearns to cast off its chains and live a life of true freedom. Yet all the mind imagines becomes another prison.
How is true freedom known? How do we escape the confines of the mind when it is the mind itself that confines our consciousness?
Our spiritual and religious traditions give us practices and disciplines to reign in the mind and begin the work of transformation. But in the end we can only directly and fully know our boundless, infinite nature through the power of knowing whose source is beyond the mind, whose source is the Infinite, the One, the Divine, Para-Atman, Buddha, Christ-consciousness...
Through the power, the grace, of our inherent Buddha mind - bodhicitta, Holy Spirit, the Great Mother Prajnaparamita, or Kundalini - the yogic term for our innate universal power of revelation and transformation - consciousness regains awareness of its eternal fullness once again, knowing its all-encompassing, all-embracing, all loving nature, enveloping us as gracefully as space envelops our body, dissolving all boundaries.
The poet saint Kabir says, "all know the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."
Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Judith Simmer-Brown
The Great Mother Prajnaparamita
"Knowing the nature of emptiness nondualistically is liberation. Whether you call it emptiness, the absolute, or the dakini makes no difference. All are liberating."
-Ven. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Pranjaparamita refers to wisdom or "penetrating insight" (prajna) that is perfected or has "gone beyond" (paramita), which means that it has transcended concept, expectation, or conventionality of any kind. The earliest of these sutras, the Ashtasahasrika, proclaimed Prajnaparamita to be the "mother of all the buddas"...
pp.84-85
Awakening To The Infinite: The Path To Radical Freedom
Meditation and Kundalini empowerment retreat led by Lawrence Edwards
Friday evening Nov. 6 - Sunday afternoon, Nov. 8, 2015
The Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
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Meditation Programs
Anam Cara Meditation Foundation
Everyone is welcome to our non-denominational meditation programs. No experience is necessary.
2nd & 4th Thursday Evening Meditation - 7:15pmThe next program is Sept. 10.
2 Byram Brook Place, Armonk, NY 10504.
914-219-8600
All are welcome! No registration needed.
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Our highest nature is always manifest in relationship - to all other beings, to the environment, in relation to our own body and mind. Becoming mindful of the quality of our relationships allows us to learn where the light shines and where it needs to shine more. The ideal of Anam Cara is to continuously endeavor to expand the depth and the inclusiveness of the loving kindness we bring into every relationship, every moment, every breath.
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With all my appreciation and love,
I thank you all.
May all beings know complete freedom from suffering and may all our actions reflect only wisdom, compassion, patience and love.
Lawrence Edwards, Ph.D.
Founder and Director
Anam Cara Meditation Foundation
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