(At Kripalu with Jack Kornfield, December 2008)
\nWhen we came in for the afternoon session Gate Gate was playing.\u00a0 I sat down in my place and began to sing along.\u00a0 I imagined holding the traumatized baby in my lap \u2014 she had been with me pretty continuously since I had talked to Hugh (and done some intense crying) after the session ended at 11:30.\u00a0 So I was sitting there holding her and singing and suddenly it came to me that she was dying, or maybe already dead.\u00a0 I began to weep, but kept the singing going through my tears.\u00a0 Then I thought about that time, over 20 years ago, when I had been here for the Inner Quest Intensive, and had lain on the floor and called out \u201cI want to be loved\u201d and a thunderous flood of love came down from the ceiling.\u00a0 I thought about this and it happened again.\u00a0 I had a sense of an infinitely kind face saying \u201cwe\u2019ve been here all along.\u201d I was able to allow the love to pour in to me and let it extend out to the infant in my lap.\u00a0 I realized I didn\u2019t know if she would be able to come back to life, or if she was dying, but I affirmed my intent to stay with her.\u00a0 I also extended love and compassionate presence to all those who were dying alone right then.\u00a0 It felt good, My heart felt eased and open and it lasted for a while.<\/p>\n
Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, Bodhi, Svaha\u00a0 is a Buddhist chant that means: gone, gone, gone beyond, gone beyond beyond, Awakening, rejoice.\u00a0 The version we were listening to was done by Robbie Gass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (At Kripalu with Jack Kornfield, December 2008) When we came in for the afternoon session Gate Gate was playing.\u00a0 I sat down in my place and began to sing along.\u00a0 I imagined holding the traumatized baby in my lap \u2014 … Continue reading