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We invite everyone to find healing, community and connection by taking time to rest, to breathe, to meditate with others, allowing each of us to give and receive compassionate support.
Our individual and collective essential qualities include: love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
It's easy to forget who we truly are as our healing qualities become blocked by the daily onslaught of news and social media reporting - about the pandemic, the upcoming election, continuing racial injustice, social division, the increase of loss of life, loss of jobs and income, loss of safety and well being - that stirs the winds of suffering: aversion and anger, attachment, and ignorance.
Let's support each other to sit quietly for a little while, breathe and release the winds that disconnect us, and find the stillness, silence, and spaciousness that provide a healing refuge for ourselves and all beings.
Newsletter Highlights This Month:
- VIRTUAL FIRST THURSDAY GUIDED HEALING CIRCLE MEDITATION
- NEW VIRTUAL DROP-IN MEDITATION SESSIONS ON THE SECOND AND LAST THURSDAYS OF OCTOBER
- BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 30: THE NEW ON-LINE 9 MONTH COMPASSION PROJECT. NOTE: Wednesday evening meditation sessions available to everyone throughout the 9 month program.
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FIRST THURSDAY GUIDED MEDITATION HEALING CIRCLE
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| | The First Thursday of the Month Guided Meditation Healing Circle is offered on Thursday, October 1, 2020 via ZOOM.
Our Guided Healing Circle Meditation is not intended to by-pass
illnesses of the body, the emotions, the mind, or spirit - or the pain
and suffering of each other, our families, communities, and our society.
The
3 Doors practice we share on First Thursdays is a support to open our
hearts and embrace all the reactive emotions triggered by the winds of
aversion, attachment, and ignorance that cause suffering.
Please join us Thursday, October 1st, from 11 AM to 11:45 AM.
Led by Gabriel, the Healing Circle is open to everyone; there is no fee.
To join please follow the link below:
Topic: First Thursday Guided Healing Meditation Circle
Time: October 1st, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3579752624
Meeting ID: 357 975 2624
Passcode: @Gabriel
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THURSDAY MORNING DROP- IN MEDITATION SESSIONS
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| | There is a luminous, healing space of refuge within each one of us. It is important to make time to visit often and connect to the warmth of our nature. It is a prescription for liberating ourselves from unnecessary emotional reactivity; developing the capacity to host the pains of illness, loss, and grief; and remembering that others suffer just as we do, without exception due to age, gender/sexual orientation, geographic location, ancestral origin, or political affiliation.
We sometimes forget that space exists, or where and how to find it. It is always available - it is waiting for us behind the doors of stillness, silence, and spaciousness.
This month, as the pandemic and social, racial, and political unrest continue to trigger disconnection from our basic goodness, I'm offering virtual, drop in silent meditation sessions on the second and the last Thursdays: 10/8, and 10/29 @ 11 AM Eastern. Everyone is welcome! There is no fee.
Much love,
Gabriel
PS: Note the open invitation to join meditation practice on Wednesday evenings in the following newsletter item: The 3 Doors - Nine Month Compassion Project.
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THE 3 DOORS - NINE MONTH ON-LINE COMPASSION PROJECT presented by MARCY AND GABRIEL
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need each other now more than ever, yet the ways in which we can be
together are currently limited. It is also clear that we, as a global
community, urgently need compassion. The 3 Doors Compassion Project
can address both of these needs.
The
3 Doors invites you to join us beginning September 30 for our 9-month
online Compassion Project program, where we will explore how the
cultivation of self-compassion can empower and enliven our expression of
compassion for others. This Compassion Project will provide Spanish Translation so Latin Americans can fully participate.
The Compassion Project is much more than another meditation training program:
Previous Compassion Project programs have benefited from participation by persons living in the United States, Canada, Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as several countries throughout Europe. The program has drawn participation from people in their late teens to those in their eighties, established meditation practitioners and those receiving instruction and support for the first time, people in the healing professions, educators, artists, and persons of all races and genders.
The individual experiences brought to awareness by the practices of the 3 Doors, and the depth of sharing from such a wide and varied community of participants, makes the collective power of the Compassion Project a deeply healing program.
Live,
online sessions—including teachings, guided practice and an emphasis on
personal sharing—will be led by Marcy and me. Use this link below to learn more and register.
In this time of collective unrest and change, gathering together is
necessary medicine. We will also host weekly, live, guided open
opportunities to practice, not just for the participants in this current
Compassion Project, but for all past participants as well and their
families, friends, and colleagues.
Each Wednesday night from 8 pm - 8:30
pm Eastern Time, beginning on September 30, 2020, Marcy and I, along
with a host of 3 Doors Presenters, will offer a free, live guided
meditation via Zoom. Everyone is welcome, there is no fee to join these
practice sessions.
LEARN MORE AND SIGN UP TO GET THE LINK TO JOIN:
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