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Every year, meditators celebrate the full-moon night of Guru Purnima as the highlight of the Vedic lunar month called "Ashadha" (July-August). It is an evening of stories, eating of rich sweets together, taking in a moonlit stroll, and enjoying the great good fortune of being a meditator at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
This year, the full-moon night of Ashadha will be Sunday, July 25th. Our celebration will begin with a group meditation at 7:30 p.m.
The peak of the evening's festivity is the group performance of "puja", the beautiful ceremony of gratitude to the Tradition of teachers dating to antiquity. To facilitate the abundance of the ceremony, every meditator brings a few flowers to share and one to offer.
It is part of the mythos of Guru Purnima that a boon is granted in response to a wish offered with one's flower at the culmination of the puja. Some people like to write down their wish and to sign it, offering it with their flower as a symbol of surrender to the organizing power of nature. Others prefer a silent & unmanifest (mental) offering as a more fitting personal gesture.
It will be important to give our wish some worthy consideration. After all, this is an exercise in expansive thinking. What is it I actually want? How can I gain fulfilment of this desire in a way that helps the evolution of many others? What is a creative way to incorporate my own individual fulfilment into my wish and be mindful of the needs of all others, now and for the future?
As you can see, this is an opportunity to demonstrate large-scale thinking while considering our individual desires. In other words, it is practice in developing a style of thinking that is akin to nature's own program of mutually-inclusive individual and cosmic evolution.
Come along to the Studio City Meditation Center and enjoy an evening of camaraderie with other meditators, to be together, eat together, and enjoy the richness of the meditating life together.
RSVP by email, or by calling: 818 907-8767
We recently have begun a new track of Exploring the Veda, and are in the process of studying Part 1 each Wednesday evening.
There is more than adequate time to catch up in order to join us for Part 2 in May.
EXPLORING THE VEDA
with
THOM KNOLES
Exploring the Veda presents the knowledge base from which our meditation comes in a way that allows our understanding and our practice to blossom and expand.
Thom Knoles is recognized as one of the world’s foremost teachers of Vedic science - the Science of Consciousness Itself. In a six-seminar recorded course of nearly 80 hours, students learn techniques for deepening meditation, correcting the mistakes of the intellect and manifesting the life experiences that reveal and help us to experience our true state of fulfillment
Exploring the Veda, Part 2 May 21, 22, 23
Exploring
the Veda, Part 3 July 22, 23, 24, 25
Exploring
the Veda, Part 4 Sept. 17, 18, 19, 20
Exploring
the Veda, Part 5 Nov 18, 19, 20, 21
Exploring
the Veda, Part 6 Jan 13, 14, 15, 16
Exploring
the Veda, Part 7 in India, February 5 through the 14th
Prerequisite: In order to participate in Exploring the Veda the student must be a meditator in our tradition.
To sign-up, or for further information, contact Adele by email or phone: 818.907.8767.