Nirmala Werner
We are delighted to have Nirmala Werner guiding our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May these sessions bring peace and depth to your practice.
This week’s theme is: Sacred Body, Sacred Path: Feminine Principles on the Spiritual Journey
This week, we explore the profound role of the feminine principle on the spiritual journey in Buddhism. We will engage in embodied practices, examining the qualities of the elements and nature, while opening ourselves to what truly serves us on our path to awakening. Where does our practice lead us when we open to an embrace of life, seeing all experience as sacred?
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Thank you for bringing your light to the world Nirmala.
I really loved these teachings – I would love to get a transcript of Anayalo’s writing about Sati (session on Thursday 20th March on the sacred body). Is this possible?
Hello Caz! I believe it’s possible, yes. We’ll ask Nirmala and let you know.
@Caz, here’s the transcription you asked for:
Analayo on mindfulness;
Also mindfulness need a cultivation, being a quality that needs to be established. Bit such a cultivation is not a forceful matter. It can be useful to take in considaration that the world satti in the Pali-language is feminine. My suggestion would be to relate to satti as a feminine quality. In such way sati can be understand as receptive and giving birth to new perspectives.
Venerable analayo: Right away from the moment of waking up in the morning our good friend sati can already be there. Like a good friend she is waiting for us. She is ready to be with us for the rest of the day. She is ready to encourage as to be receiptive and open, soft and understanding. She never gets upset when we happen to forget about her. As soon as we remember the is ready to be with us right away. Visualizing the practice as coming back to the presence of a good friend, helps to see, that sati is not a forceful act of higher attentiveness that requires strength effort in order to be maintained. Instead being in her presence carries the flavor of an open receptivity and an soft alertness to whatever is taking place.
Thank you Jorge. I am using Nirmala’s teachings from March25 for our Women’s Sangha this weekend. We explore many things. This will be a delightful contribution
Thank you so much for this exploration Nirmala