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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ayala Gill – Week of 10 November, 2025

Ayala Gill

We are delighted to have Ayala Gill guiding our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May these sessions support and enrich your practice.

This week’s theme is: Three Jewels: Love, Truth, Belonging

We will explore the “Three Jewels” of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha through the immediate, embodied experience of love. By diving into the felt sense of this moment, we discover the precious refuge of love, truth and belonging.

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Receiving Refuge

November 10, 2025

Buddha's Love

November 11, 2025

Dharma's Truth

November 12, 2025

Sangha's Belonging

November 13, 2025

Being Refuge

November 14, 2025

What if?

Once I believed, like you
that we were empty, alone
needing to fill up
own Love
consume Earth
define Self

In hollowness
we sought to stamp identity
on everything around us
Calling the world
to reflect ourselves back
so we didn’t disappear

But what if
in truth
we are so very full
that skin appears an arbitrary boundary
and eyes a portal
through which Being spills and slides
to spiral with breeze
dance with waves
fly with birds?

And what if
in truth
love is not a transaction between us
needing guarding, defining
always scarce
But the waters we swim in
the air we breathe
the light that shines from our eyes?

What if
love is abundant
already here
and free?

Poem by Ayala Gill ~ www.ayalagill.com

Discussion

One thought on “Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ayala Gill – Week of 10 November, 2025”

  1. Hello friends! Just to clarify a comment I made in response to a question on November 11th (Buddha’s Love) – the Buddha does of course talk about love in other contexts, describing Metta, Karuna, Mudita and Upekha in great depth (which we explored together here in March 2024). Though he speaks about the fully liberated mind naturally radiating compassion, as far as I know he didn’t use the word “Love” to describe “Awakeness”. Later Mahayana traditions made more of a connection between Awakeness and Love, with no separation between them. And of course the Buddha himself always invited us to turn towards our direct experience, which was the invitation of this meditation: what does it feel like to rest in the safety and refuge of Awakeness? What does “the one who is thus, neither coming nor going” feel like? What does the space of awareness feel like? To me, the word which best describes the qualities of this direct experience, is simply Love.

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