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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Sept 12, 2022

Ulla Koenig

We’re fortunate that Ulla Koenig has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Ulla, 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 (Be)Come As You Are.

 

Our driven-ness, our ruminating thoughts, and our feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety never allow us to simply ‘be’. They evolve around a sense of identity , a process the Buddha called selfing (bhava), a form of suffering (dukkha). We are endlessly trapped in a narrative of who we think we ought to be, were in the past and should be in the future.

We will dedicate our shared time together to build an awareness of these processes and find alternative ways to relate to the many experiences of life.

Who are you? – Exploring self-reference

September 12, 2022

Being me hurts - Suffering and selfing

September 13, 2022

Need a hug? - Embracing the sense of self

September 14, 2022

To become or to be? - From selfing to being

September 15, 2022

To become or to be? - From selfing to being beyond roles; the bliss of being nobody

September 16, 2022

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