lessons from wednesdays
The Wednesday night meditation circle at Nipun’s parents’ house works as such:
- 7pm – 8pm: sit anywhere any meditate silently
- 8pm – 9pm: sit in sharing circle, discuss passage of the week or any thoughts you might have
- 9pm – 10pm: vegetarian dinner served to everyone and enjoyed in silence
Anyone and everyone is welcome, and they’ve been doing this every Wednesday for 13 years. On average, 30 – 60 people show up.
As the passage of the week was discussed, I was getting increasingly nervous by the philosophical nature of it. I understood maybe 20% of it. I remembered about 5% of it. Way beyond my head (how’s that for an ivy league education?). As we went around the circle, some discussed their thoughts on the passage, others shared their new year’s resolutions, others shared their thoughts on…whatever was resonating with them at the moment.
There were four things that really struck me during the sharing circle, which I’ll describe in the next four posts.
