Daily Meditation Recordings, with Christine Kupfer – Week of April 10, 2022
Christine Kupfer
We’re fortunate that Christine Kupfer has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Christine, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here.
Recordings are posted 24 – 36 hours after the live session runs.
This week’s topic is “Body like a temple“.
We often refer to the body as if it were a functional tool. We talk about my body, as if it were supposed to be at our service. Sometimes all it takes is one breath for everything to change, and in a dazzle, we experience body as a temple, a sanctuary for life. What is a temple? It is a sacred place, a place whose spiritual reality goes beyond the physical plane. In our daily meditations this week, we will bow to the miracle of the body that we are, honoring the presence of life unfolding in all its realities.
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