Leicester Great Heart Circle, Thurs 2nd June
This evening we held our monthly meditation training circle in Leicester. It was a warm Summer's evening, and the big trees in the chapel garden were lovely and green and alive. We talked about two poles of leading a spiritual life- the need to create spaces of refuge and peace for ourselves and others, and the need to plunge headfirst into the messiness and pain of life and be with it lovingly. Once again, a great celebratory feast was enjoyed at the end. Here is a poem written recently by Mike Petterson, one of our regulars: Invigilation To hear the broken silence With every sense of being To see the confusion of the moment And feel the stillness of the soul To penetrate the barriers of division And fuse the hopes of today To live life's essence every second And see truly disappointment and joy The dot of the i, the dash of the t The red of light and greys of night Blood and bone, sinew and flesh, atom and particle The details missed, part of you, part of me To really trav...