HOSTED BY THE REGINA INSIGHT MEDITATION COMMUNITY, SASK, CANADA
Divine Order and Innocence
Saturday, 27 August 2022
10:00 am - 4:30 pm SASKATCHEWAN TIME (9:30 am - 3:30 pm Pacific Time)
By slowing down and quieting ourselves with less distractions, we have the opportunity to know the freshness and innocence of our being and of all things.
Innocence comes from the Latin root, unwounded. This is sometimes known as the “emptiness and purity of heart". This can be experienced as a union with nature since we are nature and not separate from nature. As we allow our innate curiosity to know ourselves and reality, as we trust in the way nature unfolds, we may know the divine order that underlies everything. This is known in the ancient teachings as dharma. Our practice strengthens trust; allowing supports letting go; relaxing brings us closer to presence, to ourselves, to our deeper nature. Here we can sense this divine order and know ourselves in our innocence.
Our capacity for embodied presence allows for and gives us a way to hold our experience in a non-interfering way. This helps to lessen our sense of overwhelm because at these times, the awareness/presence is stronger than the conditioned mind. Our patterns are less likely to take hold. We are able to transform our pain so we are less identified with our pain. And the more open and allowing we learn to be, the more access there is to the positive qualities of our being. Then our pure goodness can flow out into the world.
For this daylong retreat, you are encouraged to set aside a day of quiet with few distractions so that the conditions support the opportunity for a deep experience into knowing your own innocence as well as the underlying order within and of all things. Along with the teachings offered by Sharda, there will be time for sitting meditation, discussions, as well as time for walking and/or moving in silence. There will be a 45 minute lunch break mid day. We ask that people commit to attending the full retreat.
Everyone is welcome.
To register, please email CHRIS GILBOY at christophergilboy@gmail.com or 306-522-0616 (it's a landline, so he has no access to text messages). Leave your name and email address so he can send you the Zoom links and some other retreat-related information.