(Recorded on April 21, 2021)
This guided practice combines elements of emptiness practice with the potential to tune into imaginal aspects of a portion of our own personal narrative (a story or situation from our life). A distinctive feature of Rob Burbea’s dharma is the possiblity to maintain a relationship with our specificity (who we are, where we came from, what happened to us) that is imbued with freedom. What might it look like to not be free of our stories, desires, and histories, but be free within them, and to know a sense of sacredness through them.
This guided practice is a riff on those ideas, plays with using some aspects of emptiness practice to “open up” what might feel to be a contracted view of a particular story, and then seeing if anything else might be available or wanted to emerge or come from the narrative (an imaginal perspective, a sense of the mythic qualities of the story) in ways that expand our ideas about who we are, or nourish us in some way.
Short teaching/explanation available below guided medtiation.