Lovingkindness and Compassion - Daily Living Guiding Perceptions

Love and Compassion February 17-20

Michele Benzamin-Miki andCaitríona Reed
$220 + dana . Partial scholarships available

A Meditation Retreat focusing on the cultivation of Love and Compassion as guiding perceptions
rather than as sentiment or attachment, subject to the whims of circumstance

Just as a mother would give her own life to protect an only child, cultivate the same boundless love towards all of life.
Whatever you happen to be doing, wherever your are; seated, standing, walking, or lying down, so long as you draw breath, find ways to cultivate this quality of loving-kindness, this tender quality of mind, which of all qualities is said to most accurately reflect the truth of who you are. Let go forever of the idea you are in any way separate from the web of living beings. Let everything you do be informed by the understanding that all things are interconnected. Find ways to relinquish the indulgence and excess you have used as a substitute for love. Accept in their place this gift-the infinite pleasure, of love, joy, this boundless heart of kindness. —From the Buddha's teaching on Love

Let go forever of the idea you are in any way separate from the web of living beings. Let everything you do be informed by the understanding that all things are interconnected. Find ways to relinquish the indulgence and excess you have used as a substitute for love.

Accept in their place this gift—the infinite pleasure, of love, joy, this boundless heart of kindness.

Source: http://manzanitavillage.org/retreats/feb_2006.html