Coming Home This Week Is Thursday + A Recorded Meditation on Peacemaking

Dear Friends,

Coming Home, which is the group meditation practice I offer twice a week on Tuesdays at 9am and Thursdays at Noon EST, will only be offered on Thursday this week due to my travel plans. So…there’s no meditation tomorrow, but I’d love to see you on Thursday.

In the meantime, the recording here is from our group practice last Thursday. It was very beautiful and very peaceful. We all reflected on how we’re feeling about war in the Middle East and around the planet. We talked about our feelings of helplessness, our desire for a point of view that doesn’t involve hate or “othering.” We talked about a desire for miracles and the power of prayer. We were reminded of Rumi’s classic poem (below). So, we wove it all together into this guided journey that is a trip into the heart’s place of peace. I offer it tonight to anyone needing a little peace.

(If there are references to people or ideas in the meditation that don’t make sense, just know that this is a recording of a meditation composed on the spot from the conversation had just prior by a group of us.)

RUMI writes...

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”