From greed, hatred and ignorance - to Spiritual Rebirth

From February 23rd, here's Varabhadri and the shrine from her evening on the animals at the centre of the Wheel of Life.








​Since then, we've been continuing the series following the book ​The Journey and the Guide. ​It's a journey that starts with mindfulness and positive emotion, and takes those practices into further experiences of letting go, and opening out. We have had two evenings on 'spiritual death' - about letting go of limiting ourselves by thinking of ourselves as fixed and separate. Here's a poem from one evening:
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​I will not an un-lived life
I will not live in fear of falling
Or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days:
To allow my living to open me,
To make me less afraid,
More accessible.
​Loosen my heart until it becomes
​A wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
To live so
That which came to me as seed
Goes to the next as blossom
And that which came to me as blossom
​Goes on as fruit.
​Davina Markova

​Next week, we begin to look at 'spiritual rebirth' - 'waking up to a world of colour' !

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