This week, we’ll focus on the last of the eight points: Spiritual Fellowship and Spiritual Reading. These are topics that are typically experienced in person during a weeklong retreat in Tomales. For us here on the eSatsang, we have the following opportunities to experience these virtually as a community. You might consider joining fellow meditators for a virtual meditation next Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time. you might join Thomas à Kempis and your fellow eSatsang friends, by spending time with “The Wonderful Effects of Divine Love”. Feel free to just enjoy being with this passage. Is there something you would like to you try? Let us know if there’s already something you do to familiarize yourself with passages in an enjoyable way, and then share your ideas with us!
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Thanks to each of you for contributing your ideas and inspirations, and for contributing to last week’s online workshop with your presence and enthusiasm. It was a great boost to be able to share in this way!
We are very interested to hear how your spiritual fellowship, or satsang experiments went this past week. What did you learn? Did you try something new? Still looking for ideas? Feel free to share any reflections.
To keep us inspired, we’ll leave Easwaran with the last word. In this six-minute clip, he reminds of of our supreme goal, and the fruits of becoming aware of the Lord of Love, enshrined in our own hearts.
We’d like to share one last reminder with you about our online workshop tomorrow: Saturday, June 23 at 2:00p.m. –3:15p.m. San Francisco time. We look forward to enjoying the satsang with you! Even if you’re not able to watch the workshop live, if you register now we’ll send you the recording afterwards.
Can you identify some ways in which you currently enjoy fellowship with other spiritual aspirants? Is there another time during your week that might offer an opportunity for satsang? Think of a small experiment you’d like to try for this purpose.
We’d really love to hear your ideas for cultivating satsang opportunities this coming week! Next week, we’ll ask you to share any results you experienced. Your comments will inspire others, so consider sharing as a way of putting your eSatsang friends first!
We warmly invite you to join us for an online workshop on Saturday, June 23 at 2:00p.m. – 3:15 p.m. San Francisco time. This is a 75-minute workshop on the theme of Spiritual Fellowship. Many members of our eSatsang will be taking part, so it’s a chance for some real-time satsang! n the excerpt below, Easwaran looks at how all eight points can come into play when we are with other people – both passage meditators, and also family and friends who may not practice passage meditation.
What are some of the ways that Easwaran applies the eight points to satsang, which you find surprising? Is there anything in the reading that resonates with your personal experience? We’d love to hear your comments and reflections about how interacting with others impacts your spiritual practice in positive ways.
Would you like to meditate with others this month? If so, get an extra boost with this month’s theme of Spiritual Fellowship, and join our passage meditation community for a virtual meditation on Saturday mornings at 6:30 a.m. San Francisco time. We use Zoom software which allows us to videoconference with each other. In the reading that follows, Easwaran shares how important rich personal relationships are for everyone – and in fact they “constitute one of the great blessings of this earth.” He also reminds us of the important role that relationships have in helping us train ourselves to become more selfless in daily life. Do you have examples of how you can see this blessing in your daily life? We’d love to hear about how your relationships are helping you whittle away your self-will.
A little over a year ago, we launched the current interactive format for the eSatsang. It’s enabled us to communicate with each other more directly and in a timely manner on Easwaran’s teachings. As a one-year celebration, we’d like to re-visit the seventh point in the eight-point program: Spiritual Fellowship!
Throughout this month, we’ll look at how Easwaran encourages us to seek spiritual fellowship, or satsang, in different ways in our daily lives. We’ll explore this topic through a reading study of Chapter Seven in Easwaran’s book, Passage Meditation.
This month’s theme will culminate with the next Returnee Online Workshop on Saturday, June 23, at 2:00p.m. – 3:15 p.m. San Francisco Time. Many members of the eSatsang will be taking part, so it’s a chance for some real-time satsang and to extend our discussions. Please join us!
In this audio talk, Easwaran describes his visit to Gandhi’s ashram, where he watched Gandhi meditating on verses from the Bhagavad Gita.
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We are continuing with our exploration of what Easwaran means by satsang. He sheds light on the part that spiritual reading plays in offering us fellowship and encouragement.
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In this excerpt, Easwaran describes not only the benefits, but the necessity of satsang on our spiritual path. What is one way you’ve benefited from satsang? Are there any tips from the reading. . .
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Welcome to the new eSatsang! We are so glad you made it. To kick off the new eSatsang, we wanted to celebrate by offering a full 30-minute talk from Easwaran right here on our site.
We also wanted to take this opportunity and invite you to introduce yourselves. . .
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