Spirit (sky): indestructible stillness-openness, clarity, perfection beyond the mind’s capacity to grasp or reconcile, the felt unity of all this multiplicity, the cosmos in your cup of coffee. Unstoppable, ever-graceful flow.
Soul (rose): everything alive as Beauty. Art in the everyday quirks, cares, agonies and curiosities. Tending the need to create, relate, build and destroy. Reconciling Psyche’s movement towards wholeness. Answering the call to heal the meanness and alienation that fractures our worlds. Putting on the Altar the dark places and shining light in the shadowy corners of our very human hearts. The love and meaning for the flowers popping up in the cracks.
Meets monthly on Sundays from 10:30A PT - 12:30P PT / 1:30P ET - 3:30P ET
First Meeting Sunday October 13
This is a place for kisei and jogen to weave in practices and explorations of Soul Work that are typically not highlighted in the Buddhist tradition but that have nonetheless been sources of vitality, expansion and joy.
The intention is to blend the mystical and the soulful. Buddhist spaces tend to emphasize the work of spirit, helping us peer beyond our personal identity to the freedom and oneness at our core, but often neglect the work of soul, leaving us to find other outlets for this exploration. Other communities tend to emphasize soul work, but from a psychological perspective. The braiding of mystical and soulful, sky and rose—is an invitation to bring our whole selves to the path of awakening.
Here we ask together: What if we lived as if Love were the point?
We will:
Create a practice ethos of radical non-duality, a commitment to see into the dream of the self. Grounding in dharma practices of stillness, inquiry and openness.
Center parts work practices to explore the fluidity, span and dream of who we are - somebody, nobody, everybody.
Do interpersonal and group meditation practices of seeing, being and awakening.
Directly explore emotional embodiment & shadow work
Include Beauty, Art & Wonderment as core practice elements
We initiate Sky & Rose as an experiment in embracing Spirit and Soul simultaneously, together imagining and practicing collective liberation, playfulness and spaciousness in this time of deep adaptation.
We will begin with monthly 2 hour online sessions on Sundays. The schedule for a session can be found below. We ask each person to commit to coming for the entire session.
Opening—Sacred Invocation (10 min)
Meditation/Universe Somatic (45 min)
Group Shadow Work / Relational Practices (1hr)
Closing Dedication