Love for who. And where does that start. Well it begins with the mentor Deity. I'm alone in the room and I use an icon or some Buddhist image to open and embody one side of the relationship. The other side is coming from the mysterious depths of time and space.

This is the dynamic of faith in a modern world. The art of faith. Embodying the relationship with a mentor deity with words and with gestures.

And by the way, in the last quarter of the podcast I got into what is called the Seven Limbed Prayer which is a fantastic and wonderful pattern of mind training in Buddhist Tibet. If you like this section I can do much more on it in a separate podcast. Let me know. and thank you for listening and have a great weekend.

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 I lay awake wondering how to make a podcast in the face of the war that began last week in Ukraine. What do I say ? How do I go on ?

And then it came to me -  this podcast is a storytelling podcast. it's about how I'm feeling and what I'm doing and what strategies do I use to survive and maintain mental health. So all I need to do now is keep the podcast going and keep talking and sharing how my journey is going, hoping that by sharing it with you, you will feel less alone, and have more permission to access your own heart and soul.

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This is maybe the best podcast I've ever done. Or at least the one I'm most satisfied with. It's a meditation that sums up everything. And it just came to me, on a dreamy quiet evening in February when I was thinking about Valentines day and then drifted into a reverie about meditation and mindfulness that floated between Buddhist and Christian ideas. 

But this is a very simple pathway, and I hope you enjoy it. I also used that famous Tibetan text (Eight Verses Of Mind Training ) which is an exquisite jewel of Tibetan Buddhism.

Hope you had a great Valentines Day and now have a great weekend. And find yourself somewhere very tranquil and then listen to this.

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Wow. There's a lot of autobiographical stuff in this meditation. But it's a special day for me. so here it is;

My life going on elsewhere is the key to this meditation. That in everything I'm doing there is something bigger than me calling me. So sometimes life feels like it's going on elsewhere, and it means I must change my life. I must listen to the heart, and follow it, no matter what chaos is that creates. the Source draws us forward, like the rays of the sun. and in old age and ill health I find the same thing. the Source calls me home to live in the body.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

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So this is it. For Brigid's day, I wanted to share how I feel when the tide goes out, and I find myself becoming a bag of existential anxiety. Or as they used to say, I found myself in a dead zone, without god or meaning. What to do about that. Well don't panic. The tide went out. The tide will come back in again. Hope you enjoy.

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