UPCOMING RETREAT
LIVING LIFE WHERE LIFE IS LIVED:
Coming Home to the Moment, Oneself, One’s People and the Earth
Friday, October 22–
Sunday, October 24, 2010
A Mindfulness Retreat with
Dharma Teacher Michael Ciborski
In our daily life, we are often lost in complex task of sorting out who we are and what is best for us in this busy, complicated and fast-paced society. We have many relationships—and all of them need our attention—and many responsibilities to ourselves and commitments to others that we are trying to manage and maintain. Sometimes when the pieces all fit together we think we “have it together”, but most of the time we are struggling with the dispersion and feel lost in our attempts to live peacefully and happily.
Mindfulness is the awareness of what is unfolding on each moment of life. By nature, it is unbiased and renders no judgement of right or wrong, better or worse, self or other. It is to be present and to “see” things as they are. Seeing things as they are we are able to speak and act appropriately to foster understanding and well-being.
Practicing mindfulness means to come home to life, and when we do, we discover that life has so much to offer. True happiness, meaning and fulfillment are found by being in deep relationship with all that is inside and around us — by being refreshed and healed through joyful celebration, by being clear and open in the midst of mourning and pain. Being aware and in relationship to what is actually going on, we are not pushed or pulled, this way and that, by stress, worry, fear and suffering. Mindfulness gives us this opportunity to practice accepting and embracing our suffering and whether or not we have wealth, recognition, success and material security we have deep happiness and fulfillment.
