Refuge & Bodhicitta: Inner Peace & Big Love
Paula Chichester
Sunday, March 17: 10:30am-12pm
“There is a place where I can go, when I feel low, when I feel blue.. and it’s my mind.” —The Beatles
Buddha showed us how to feel and know that our true nature is pure inner peace and love. This inner space is called refuge. We will start the morning with an experiential exploration into the refuge that is the birth right of all human beings. We will then discuss how we cross the bridge from the mental concept to the experience of total acceptance for all experience and all beings - that place where empathy, forgiveness, the ease of letting go and letting love arise.
Buddha showed us how to feel and know that our true nature is pure inner peace and love. This inner space is called refuge. We will start the morning with an experiential exploration into the refuge that is the birth right of all human beings. We will then discuss how we cross the bridge from the mental concept to the experience of total acceptance for all experience and all beings - that place where empathy, forgiveness, the ease of letting go and letting love arise.
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Paula Chichester began studying Buddhism when she was 14 at Berkeley High School in California. At university, she studied systems theory and has applied that to her 40 years of meditation. Understanding the whole body/mind/culture/ environment of the practitioner makes each person's journey in Tibetan Buddhism unique. As a dancer, Chinese Chi Gung practitioner, healer, singer, student of psychology, ecology, she brings all these elements into the understanding of the whole person and how tantra works in this greater context. She has spent the last 33 years practicing full time -- 23 years preparing for and completing long retreats -- under the guidance of her inspiring kind teachers: Lama Thubten Yeshe, Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche and Kyabje Ribur Rinpoche. She has also studied with teachers from all 4 schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Her goal in life has been steady since childhood: to realize Mahamudra and do all she can to bring peace to our world.
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