The Way of the Urban Meditator (Aug 2, 3 PM SLT)

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The Way of the Urban Meditator (Aug 2, 3 PM SLT)

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Movies and the popular media love to show images of clean-headed monks sitting hours on the same spot, silently, wearing their simple but impeccable clothing. We may admire or even envy them for that — but realize it's not for us, with our daily, busy routine. So we discard meditation as being merely something New Age-esque or "Eastern" with little bearing with our Western culture and civilization, and only fit for people who have nothing else to do. In reality, teachers over the past 2,600 years have developed thousands of different techniques to bring the benefits of meditation to pretty much anyone, no matter how "busy" one is.

In this series of meditation sessions, we will learn what meditation is *really* about, what it's good for, and how anyone, even on a 16-hour work day, can train the mind in exactly the same way, and gather the same kind of benefits, without the need of shaving one's head and living in isolation.

Join us to learn some simple techniques and practice a bit together!

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Trying to do this at the Neufreistadt Kirche again. Yes, I'll de-rezz the altar, now that I've learned how :)

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So sorry Gwyneth, have been indisposed this time, but I practised with some success what you taught us at the last session. Looking forward to the next event!

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I must also apologise for announcing these events with such short notice. Unfortunately it's very hard for me to predict when I'll be free :-(

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Well I'd really like to join your sessions Gwyn... when's the next one?

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Later on today :) At 2 PM, again at the Kirche!

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Gwyneth Llewelyn wrote:

Later on today :) At 2 PM, again at the Kirche!

https://secondlife.com/my/community/eve ... id=5212988

Hi Gwyn and thanks for the info ...

Is today still today, or is it yesterday? As you know, days of the week rather than "yesterday" "today" or "tomorrow" are rather more helpful these days! At the time of writing, it's now Wednesday 3.52 AM PDT :P

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It was yesterday! :-)

LOL, yes, this can be confusing. I'm sorry, Pip!

But I think I might be able to hold a session later today (THURSDAY, AUG 9 - hehe) at 2 PM.

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