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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ayala Gill – Week of 04 November, 2024

Ayala Gill

We’re 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: Love’s Fullness

 

Mindfulness is a practice of remaining present, open and loving to the deepest truth of this moment as it arises and dissolves. It invites us into an intimate, warm and embodied relationship with life, where each moment is sensed, felt and known with love. The four foundations of mindfulness return us to love’s fullness.

"Lovefulness" of the Body

November 4, 2024

Feeding the Worms ~ Danusha Lemeris

Ever since I found out that earthworms have taste buds all over the delicate pink strings of their bodies, I pause dropping apple peels into the compost bin, imagine the dark, writhing ecstasy, the sweetness of apples permeating their pores. I offer beets and parsley, avocado, and melon, the feathery tops of carrots.

I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar—though now, it seems, they bear a pleasure so sublime, so decadent, I want to contribute however I can, forgetting, a moment, my place on the menu.

"Lovefulness" of Feeling Tone

November 5, 2024

“Yes, We Can Talk” by Mark Nepo.
Or here:
Yes We Can Talk
Having loved enough and lost enough,
I am no longer searching,
just opening.

No longer trying to make sense of pain,
but trying to be a soft and sturdy home
in which real things can land.

These are the irritations that rub into a pearl

So we can talk awhile
but then we must listen,
the way rocks listen to the sea

And we can churn at all that goes wrong
but then we must lay all distractions down,
and water every living seed.

And yes, on nights like tonight
I too feel alone. but seldom do I
face it squarely enough
to see that it is a door
into the endless breath
that has no breather
into the surf that human shells
call god.

~ Mark Nepo

"Lovefulness" of Emotions and Mindstates

November 6, 2024

"Lovefulness" in Relationship

November 7, 2024

Love's Power

November 8, 2024

A few lines from Lord of the Rings:
“I wish it need not have happened in my time”, said Frodo.
“So do I”, said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
And a few lines from the song “We Shall be Known” by MaMuse:

It is time now, and what a time to be alive
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love

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