Our self-protective habits of resentment and blame block intimacy and connection with ourself and others. This short talk and meditation are an invitation to deepen our understanding of the suffering of blame, and to release the armoring to loving freely. Includes a meditation using “RAIN on Blame.” (recorded at the IMCW 2019 New Year’s 5-day Silent Retreat)
Closing quote is from The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche, PhD.
There is a place in the heart where everything meets.
Go there if you want to find me.
Mind, senses, soul, eternity, all are there.
Are you there?Enter the bowl of vastness that is the heart.
Give yourself to it with total abandon.Quiet ecstasy is there - and a steady, regal sense of resting in a perfect spot.
Once you know the way
the nature of attention will call you
to return, again and again,
and be saturated with knowing,
“I belong here, I am at home here.”