Mindfulness is usually taught as an individual, internal practice, but we live our lives with other people and need the power of mindfulness in the challenging arena of our relationships.
Just as compelling, we can engage the power of relationships – of spiritual friends – to amplify and sustain mindfulness. When the power of mindfulness ripens, the calm and receptive presence of another can make insight into not-self accessible rather than scary, a natural result of de-centering the self.
The Buddha’s most important teaching on establishing mindfulness, the Satipatthana Sutta, teaches us to establish mindfulness internally, externally, and both, but rarely is this practice explicitly taught.
Join Gregory Kramer – founding and guiding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community – for a live Day of Practice to explore this teaching together, as a refined but accessible practice of interpersonal meditative contact.
We will touch into individual mindfulness practice and, through the long tested and effective relational practice of Insight Dialogue, extend awareness to and with others. Our focus will be the first three Insight Dialogue guidelines: Pause, Relax, and Open.
In particular, Open offers a methodical approach to mindfulness of ourselves and others, deepening our capacity to meet each moment – and each other – with awareness, receptivity, and compassion.
