The painting shows Green Tara of the Forest. She’s a Tibetan Buddhist meditation deity. I painted her not quite in her traditional form. Our meditation work on this site is based on Tara’s tradition, in a form to be useful for modern people. You don’t need to be Buddhist to do them.
How can we live in the profound reality and be hands on in the ordinary world at the same time?
How can we transform difficult emotions to wisdom?
How do we calm the inner climate?
We have Meditations for each part of the recipe
Life:
I am alive
calm, settle, let thoughts float and dissolve like clouds.
When we’re alive, we’re aware – of breathing, sensing, body sensation.
Caring for life
Develop our natural capacity for love, caring, mothering,
Mother Nature’s Mothering
Four Loves
develop strengths
transform pain into love
climate anxiety
We are part of nature
We are all made of Elements
Learn to live by nature’s laws.
Buddhism teaches dharma, the laws of nature.
Interconnected
Community maintains life. Relationships maintain life of the heart.
I’m not a separate self, we’re all part of wider community, sangha
We are Good by nature
Mother Nature’s elements are pure. Nothing in nature is evil. Neither are we. When we behave badly, we’re confused, not evil.
Deep Mind
We settle into Deep Mind, to percolate our work and transform our life.
Great Mother ocean of mind is where we dream, meditate, imagine.
Deep Mind has its own processes for transformation, which happen naturally when we give them the space.
Great Mother
magic mystery beauty peace mother moment
Mother Nature, great mother. the sacred presence within all things The nurturing, mothering character of Mother Nature.