Brother Richard

For now, though, we gently allow the two circles

of those we are in loving relationship with, and of those who are in our wider circle to fade.

And we return to the immense grace of knowing ourselves as fundamentally beloved.

Beloved.

And we can say inwardly, I am loved infinitely, eternally, and unconditionally.

And I choose to live from love towards all others insofar as I can.

Gently then breathing in and breathing out.

Gently beginning to move fingers and toes.

Taking a great stretch if need be.

And then allow the sound of the bell to draw you back to the activity of the day.

Welcome back.

One of the ways in which our interior reality is often described within the world of meditation is as weather.

When we think of the weather, we know it is constantly changing.

We can characterize it as good or bad, which often comes out of really what we want the weather to be.

But the weather comes and goes.

The seasons come and go and change.

And the sky is constantly changing.

And yet, though the weather moves around the world, the world remains solid.

In exactly the same way, the practitioner of meditation aspires to a solidity of presence

but while still allowing the movement of the interior reality of thought, feeling, sensation, reaction, is not caught up in them.