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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ayala Gill – Week of March 18, 2024

Ayala Gill

We’re fortunate that Ayala Gill has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Gill, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

 

This week’s topic is “Love’s Flavours and Flow”

 

Love never leaves us. It’s already here in each thought, sight, taste, smell, sound, sensation and movement. Love is already here, resting beside each pain, celebrating each delight and expanding into the great unknown with infinite patience and warmth. Love effortlessly flows into giving and receiving, and mysteriously radiates in wordless Being. Love’s presence is known in the moment we choose to recognise, allow and participate in the dance of its ongoing flavours and flow.

 

Love's Luminous Warmth

March 18, 2024

Here are the words from Mary Haskell to Kahlil Gibran:

“Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I’d like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you. You cannot disappoint me.”

They can also be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/396810-nothing-you-become-will-disappoint-me-i-have-no-preconception

And also here (towards the end) with some more explanation about their relationship: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/20/kahlil-gibran-mary-haskell-love-letters/ 

Love’s Tenderness

March 19, 2024

Ayala’s poem Here.

Love’s Delight

March 20, 2024

Poem by Lalla: “Dance, Lalla, with nothing on”

Love’s Spaciousness

March 21, 2024

Ayala’s poem “Feathers into Empty Space”.

Giving Love, Receiving Love, Being Love

March 22, 2024

Ayala’s poem “This Was Just Another Day“

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