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Reality is characterised by impermanence. It is a mark of the Buddhist view that everything changes. We habitually grasp or push or ignore. These attitudes can be seen as strategies to hold on—to something, anything—and to protect the comforting fiction of our solid and unchanging selves.
This mark of impermanence can guide us in our path and our practice. Is our meditation supposed to put us into a desirable, unchanging state of mind? Or is it an opportunity to let go into the unruly flow of life from moment to moment? To join in the impermanence of everything, especially ourselves.
This short talk with guided meditation is offered to help us to see the opportunity to relax with impermanence in our practice. And for those who do not yet see that everything changes, I suggest that there is no better way to "road test" this teaching than in one's own meditative experience.
All practitioners are invited to join this study and practice opportunity.
About the Teacher
Steve Gleich. I still appreciate the teachings, empowerments, the heart-breaks and encouragements received from the Shambhala lineage of teachers and their main students. There have been many wonderful spiritual friends so far. As an engaged citizen of the Shambhala Buddhist world since 1982, I have served in many leadership and teaching roles, not to mention washing thousands of dishes, repairing broken decks and intervening in a few crises. My recent study and teaching have focused on the mind of great compassion, Buddhist fundamentals (the Four Noble Truths, the Four Seals, the Four Reminders, Lojong slogans, the Heart Sutra) and Shambhala teachings on good human society. I try to teach what I have learned. I encourage myself and my students to ask genuine questions. Having retired from careers in psychology and custom cabinet-making, I now teach at Dorje Denma Ling Retreat Centre, coordinate the Tatamagouche Shambhala Meditation Group, volunteer with the local food bank and help out with whatever else comes along. Sometimes words and events force me to agitate for a sane political world. Lilly and I have been married for 45 years. We live in the country near DDL in so-called retirement. May all our paths cross in the near future.