Hello dear friends,

We are approaching a very wonderful, auspicious time to practice. Next week is the Spring Equinox. The sun is returning, and the earth and all the constellations are aligned with our hearts, which long to receive the seeds of happiness. Everything is waiting, holding its breath.

I am familiar with several Buddhist practices for Planting Seeds.  These practices are simple and meaningful and very moving and gorgeous. They have the potential to open us up to our own Great Samadhi Power, called Mind Power like the Sun, also called Most Profound Awareness: The Mind for Planting Seeds of Happiness.

I’d like to share these practices with you this Friday, March 23, at 4:15, at 2Hot Yoga in HP.  The class will be two hours long instead of an hour and a half.

First, we’ll do the regular hour and a half Hot Practice.  Than, I’d like to teach you how to do Full Prostrations in the Chan way. This is called Embodying Enlightenment, a way to experience certain aspects of enlightenment as feelings in your own body.

After that we’ll Cultivate Seeds by making an offering of our intentions. We’ll literally write our intentions on a lotus leaf, to be placed on the Altar, along with a fruit offering or flower offering.  The studio will have flowers and fruit for you to offer, but you can also bring something special from home to place on the altar, if you like.  Then, we’ll practice Chan Walking Meditation as we Circumambulate the studio with our offerings.

We'll finish with Metta, Loving Kindness Meditation, the  practice which is known as Direct Path to Happiness From Within.

Hope you can make it!

With Metta,

Zoe