Dear friends,
This week, we will meet Monday evening, July 21st, from 7-8:30PM EDT online; Wednesday morning, July 23rd, from 7-8AM EDT in person at our meditation space (3812 Northampton Street NW); and Friday, July 25th, 12-1PM EDT online.
On Monday night, Annie and Marie will co-facilitate, and we will continue to reflect on Thay’s book The Art of Power. This week we will focus on Chapters 6 (Boundless Love) and 7 (Being Present at Home and Work), pages 99-136.
They share: When we met to discuss these chapters, we were both struck by the power of this quote by the Buddha: “We have all that we are looking for within.”
In Chapter 5, Thay elaborates:
This is what the Buddha said at the moment of enlightenment: “How strange – all living beings have the fully awakened nature, but none of them knows it. And because of that they drift and sink from lifetime to lifetime in the great ocean of samsara, in suffering.
When we recognize that in us there is the essence of goodness, beauty and truth, we will stop going in search of something. We will stop wandering around feeling that we lack something… The great awakening occurs when we recognize that what we are looking for is within us.”