Meditation on Election Night!
By happy coincidence, our monthly Leicester 'Great Heart Circle' meditation class fell on Thursday 6th May- the day of the British General Parliamentary Election! It felt a good moment of the poetry of life- an evening of calm and appreciation of diversity whilst the country was in a frenzy of anticipation... We began with guided awareness and kindness meditation as usual, followed by tidying up rubbish from the grounds of the chapel where we were meeting! Then we studied a section from the book 'Bearing Witness' by our Zen master, Bernie Glassman, where he talks about meditating regularly as a group in the grounds of a derelict school in New York, gradually cleaning it up each day from rubbish and drug needles and even asbestos. The city were so pleased with what they were doing, they even sent them a squad of US marines one weekend to help out...! We had a period of silent Zen meditation towards the end, finishing with a poem and song by Rumi. Then we had a shared...