Offered online through Boston Meditation Center
When we observe the natural world, we see that everything is in process. Nothing exists in a fixed state of initiation or completion. Life is constantly moving, cycling, and in sacred flux. Spiritual practice is the same. Sometimes the process involves slowing down, gestating, and hibernating, like the wintertime. Sometimes our revelations accelerate, like the growth cycle of the spring. Spiritual growth cannot be pushed or pulled. But because humans are conditioned to fear what we don’t know and cannot visually see, we sometimes attempt to control, judge, or speed up the process. We fall into the false belief that Enlightenment is an end and a goal, when it is neither.
Join dharma teacher Deborah Eden Tull for an evening meditation and dharma talk about celebrating process. Can we go beyond the use of spiritual practice as a step by step program geared to outcome? Can we release the conditioning - stemming from capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and individualism - that focuses on attainment achievement, and getting somewhere? Can we let go of the story that life as it is, is not whole? Can we recognize the awakened state that already exists, in every moment we are willing to surrender to process?
All are welcome… both experienced meditators and those who are new to practice.
