Weary: From the Proto-Germanic worigaz: to wander, totter
We are weary… With the burden of becoming
We are weary… With the duty to do
We are weary … With the responsibility of our failures
We are weary… With the weight of worry
We are weary… With promise of mañana
We are weary… With the memory of our misdeeds
We are weary… With the pressure of pandemic
We are weary… With the constriction of words of warning
We are weary… With treading water in an ocean of unshed tears
We are weary… With the fear of unknowingness
Listen to the weariness
Let it bow you down
Let it lie you down
Let it wrap you, melt through you, rinse you
And finally liberate you from
Becoming
Doing
Failure
Worry
Misdeeds
Pandemics
Warnings
Tears
Fears
Unknowing
Let it loosen your grasping Let it release your clinging Let it show you that your
Burdens
Duties
Responsibilities
Weights
Promises
Memories
Constrictions
Treadings
Fears
Are your
Adornments,
Guides,
Teachers,
As you wander, tottering, on this path of
Being human.
Practice
There are as many myriad of ways of practicing meditation as there are the myriad of sentient beings in all of the cosmos. With each of these practices, over time, or in an instant, comes an understanding of the nature of personal suffering and the suffering of others. With this understanding, knowledge of the causes and conditions that give rise to this suffering become clear. In the light of this awareness, the grip of the habits, of thinking, acting, and speaking, on being, loosens and compassion for personal afflictive conditioning and the afflictive conditioning of others emerges; like a child awakening from a nightmare. Then the soothing voice of truth dawns with the light of first hand experience of how to alleviate suffering for all beings. And like each dawn of every day, in every location on this planet, and on all the planets throughout all directions and in all times, each first hand experience is unique, as is each response to that experience.
Practicing in sangha, even virtually, seems to activate the yeast of meditation practice in a different way than sitting solitarily. The members of the Sangha of the Pandemic, invite you to share the bread of the practice with us, No experience is required. There is no cost. Everyone is welcome.
We practice on ZOOM:
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9 AM Eastern Time
Sunday at 10 AM Eastern Time
and
Wednesday evening at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
ZOOM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89989680789
May all beings in all directions, throughout all times be free from suffering.
William, Linda, Brian, Chuck, Paul, Mike, David, Jeff, Ginny, Tom, Randall, Angie