Online: Meditating With the Eyes
with Bodhipaksa
Thursday, May 5th, 2022 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
If you’re used to meditating with the eyes closed, you may well tend to ignore them. This may be a missed opportunity.
In more than 30 years of teaching and 40 years of meditating, Bodhipaksa has developed a unique approach to meditation that emphasizes being aware of the eyes and of our sense of vision. The eyes may constitute only a fraction of our body’s mass, but our sense of vision represents more than 70 percent of our sensory input, and how we relate to our visual field (even with the eyes closed) affects every aspect of our experience.
Bodhipaksa will introduce two core practices in this evening workshop:
He’ll show how “soft eyes” can radically calm the mind and give us access to the body’s sensations in a much more open, receptive, and holistic way than normal.
And he’ll explore how the practice of kind eyes can transform our practice of lovingkindness, giving us effortless access to feelings of warmth, appreciation, and caring both for others and for ourselves. Even after a brief experience of these two approaches to meditation, your practice may never be the same again.
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Teacher(s)
Bodhipaksa
Bodhipaksa is a teacher of meditation and Buddhism, known for his accessible and down-to-earth approach to practice. Born in Scotland, he now lives in New Hampshire and has two children. He’s the author of several books, including “Wildmind: A Step-By-Step Guide to Meditation,” “Living as a River,” “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha,” and “This Difficult Thing of Being Human.” He is also the author of many guided meditation CDs and audiobooks, and is the founder of Wildmind (www.wildmind.org), a prominent online meditation center.