Erin: Zen traditions embrace doubt and uncertainty as a pathway to insight. As someone who experiences an awful lot of doubt and uncertainty, especially in these bizarro times, I appreciate the idea that not knowing and flailing about unsure and unsteady can actually maybe lead me to stumble upon some greater understanding. Tonight we’ll amplify our … Continued
Jeff: Again and again, meditation teachers talk about the benefits of “popping out of your thoughts” – of panning back to a more spacious perspective, no longer embedded in fatalistic loops of rumination and mood and whatever else. To successfully do this, it helps to understand the terrain of thinking and feeling in the first … Continued
James: Neurobehaviouralists suggest we experience only the surprising. Everything else gets lost into the deep blue of our subconscious mind, with its business ends of icebergs and ridiculous fishes. The connections made there are so beyond comprehension, no number could catch them. You can get a sense of what might remain unseen in at least a … Continued
Luke: There are SOOOOO many interesting references and symbols to inner vision in many ancient civilizations. From the ancient Egyptians and the eye of Horus to the Hindu deities and forehead adornments of the third eye to the many biblical references of the inner eye, there is an interesting reference and reverence to the forehead as … Continued
Erin: The quest for insight can be a heady endeavour. Tonight we’ll take the practice out of our heads and see what the body has to teach us, asking our bodies “what are you trying to tell me?” and waiting patiently for answers.