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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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.