... First meeting done!
All of us are
officially a part of the International Zen Peacemakers' Circle, with the
blessing (maybe!) of King Arthur's soul itself! What a better image for
starting such a new symbolically exciting journey?
Yes, the
journey has been started, thanks to a beautiful sun that warmed our
bones, while we were sitting in, probably, what was the most blessed part
of Chester's Amphitheater: the "corner" of Nemesis, the
ancient and beautiful god of justice. We began as usually with a brief
conversation in order to know each other and showing why we were enjoying the circle and what we expected from it. Then, we started with readings from the introduction of 'Instructions to the Cook' written by Bernie Glassman, about how the
practice of Zen meditation could positively affect not only our brain,
our way of thinking and our spiritual balance, but also our daily
life's experience, with concrete results, such as the Zen
Peacemakers' folks have done in Switzerland and are still working on
around the Europe for lots of homeless and people in need.
Learning from each other
seems to be the only master this practice has: everyone is a torch to
light, not just a container to be filled. If all of us is a part of the
same body, our spiritual development could be started, enriched and
improved only with the help of others. Only together it could be
possible discover ourselves since there is not differences amid the
outside and the inside, as Buddhism teaches us.
I'm still
excited by the experiment we did: sitting alone, close to the street,
after a brief moment of meditation done together, as usually. The looks
of the people hurted my heart not a little: sitting on the ground for
few minutes, and looking at the world from a different prospective
could be a really penetrating experience..
So... may we all be well and appreciate one another.
Always and always.
yours Clara
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