Day of Reflection, Sat 7th November
We held a Day of Reflection on Saturday at Howard's, on the theme "Seeing Others with the Eyes of Love". We began the day with a checking-in council circle, then we listened to a 40 minute guided meditation on cd of the Metta Bhavana, the same one we listened to last month. After that we did an exercise based on a painting of Green Tara that Sheila Hixon gave us from her house. We looked at the painting, and had 3 sessions where we wrote down: 1) What Buddha qualities the image and the symbols/colours etc. suggested to us. 2) What good qualities of Ourself we could see reflected in the painting and symbols. 3) We chose someone we know well, and reflected what qualities of them were reflected in the painting. We had 4 periods of silent meditation, one between each reflection, and at the start and finish. After a shared lunch (big feast again!), we did some singing together from the Arabic from a beautiful cd of chants I found last month- half of us chanted "Y...