Hearing The Cries of The World

Here is our beautiful shrine to Green Tara from our day retreat yesterday, 25th October. Our theme was ‘Hearing the Cries of the World’.
We were inspired by the Zen Peacemakers:
' We come together in a small group in a profound way. We create a shared space that is safe, confidential and perhaps sacred. We each listen and speak from the heart, encountering and experiencing one another gently and with awareness. We are not solving problems or debating issues or making plans. We are making a healing space for each of us to hear and be heard, see and be seen.’
 
The Three Tenets of Zen Peacemakers
I will embody Not Knowing, thereby giving up fixed ideas
I will Bear Witness opening my heart to the joy and suffering of life
I will Take Loving Action arising out of Not Knowing and Bearing Witness