Poems for meditation (2022)

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A short introduction to a practice.
Mondays 17th, 24th, 31st January and 7th February 2021
8pm (UK GMT). Free.

Here’s the promise: a way to meditate that is as easy as reading a poem.
(And not even a difficult poem. Or a long poem. As easy as reading a short, simple poem.)

Two years ago, I wrote a short book - Poems for meditation. It’s just four short poems, based on four stages of meditation. Those four stages - and these four poems - are designed to move your mind from whatever-state-you-might-be-in towards a place of clarity. When you’ve found that clarity you can either just enjoy it - or use it as a starting point for further meditation.

To mark the new year - and to give myself the best chance of finding the clarity I need in the weeks and months to come - I thought it would be a nice idea to revisit the poems with a series of short Monday evening sessions.

They’re open to everyone. They’re free. The session itself will run from 8pm-8.30pm - and then there’ll be a further half hour in case anyone wants to stay on to talk more (or meditate more). We’ll start with a very, very simple meditation - just a kind of settling down. Then we’ll look at one of the four poems, read it a couple of times, talk about what we see, talk about how to use it as a meditation - and then meditate with it. That’s the plan anyhow. It might go differently on the night — I’ll just follow what feels right.

If you’d like to join, add yourself to the WhatsApp group [group now closed to new members ]. I’ll send all the info you need there, along with links to the calls.
(Any questions - drop me a line.)