Mirror of Love, Compassion, and Wisdom
Within a warm, welcoming, and supportive community, David offers meditation and discussion classes to discover innate wellsprings of openness, love, compassion, and wisdom, allowing us to be naturally resilient, flourish, and operate from a fresh and awakened awareness in our daily lives.
From the Buddhist perspective, love is the unbiased wish for one’s own and all others’ happiness and fulfillment. Compassion is defined as the wish that one’s self and all others recognize, stabilize and operate from the view that completely liberates from suffering. Wisdom in this context means operating from the natural spaciousness of the mind allowing both love and compassion to be naturally and spontaneously present.
From the vantage point of the teachings from which David is sharing, these qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom already exist within as our natural essence. This essence however, may be temporarily obscured by limiting beliefs and habitual clinging to unhelpful patterns of thought.
These habitual patterns which obscure and create reactivity can be restored to their natural state through these practices. In other words; living from a place of spacious freedom is something that becomes possible.
The deeply transformative and inspiring wisdom teachings and meditation practices David shares come primarily from Indo-Tibetan traditions and have been adapted for people of all backgrounds.
Essential practices we’ll be exploring:
• Generating the intention for awakening to our natural state. Defining and taking aim toward the goal of liberating our hearts and minds for our own and others’ benefit.
• Taming the monkey and wild elephant mind - Concentration / Calm Abiding Practices. These practices help to stabilize the practices of operating out of open awareness that is done on and off the meditation cushion.
• Accessing and embodying a boundless source of love and compassion, thereby liberating difficulties into wisdom and compassion.
• Finding safety and freedom in openness (radical honesty), compassion, a supportive community, and wisdom teachings.
• Four profound contemplations to establish a stable and positive foundation for your practice.
• Integrating awareness, breath, and body through gentle yogic stretches done mostly from a seated position.
• Spacious-awareness meditations, discovering our true nature and innate capacity.
• Dedicating the benefits of our practice to the well-being of others thereby breaking down our sense of isolation and unleashing a spirit of generosity.
• Techniques to incorporate the practices into everyday life.
• Becoming a source of peace, creativity, compassion, and care for oneself and others.
I hope to have the opportunity to share these precious teachings with you and practice together,
Hearty Blessings,
David
The donation for the set of seven classes is $108. However, participants may make a generosity-offering on a sliding scale. No one will be turned away due to a lack of funds
