(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Honoring the defenses that have kept us alive and offering our love to those spaces that can't open yet.  The capacity to offer love can come from contemplating our generosity, the ways we are ethical and the beautiful qualities of awakened beings.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Honoring the defenses that have kept us alive and offering our love to those spaces that can't open yet. The capacity to offer love can come from contemplating our generosity, the ways we are ethical and the beautiful qualities of awakened beings.

Arinna Weisman: Respecting the Defended Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Thanissara, from London, was a monastic for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 35 years. She is co-founder of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South Africa, Sacred Mountain Sangha, California, and Chattanooga Insight, Tennessee. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the Karuna Institute UK and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry.

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Arinna Weisman: Respecting the Defended Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Arinna Weisman: Respecting the Defended Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)