Even after decades of teaching about the dead-end of hatred, I confess: I hate moving. Even when I’m moving to a more spacious and suitable situation, there is a hazy aura of loss, a premature nostalgia for the place I’m choosing to leave.
Our Los Feliz sitting group is moving to a new home on Monday, February 12th, after years of meeting in a classroom at the Philosophical Research Society. Our new space is not far away; we’ll be meeting in a beautiful room nestled in the soft green lawns of Hollywood Forever Cemetery. There’s ample room for us to grow, to warmly welcome newcomers to our community in a protected environment – and also plenty of free parking! A sacred historic site, the cemetery is called a “Library of Lives”.
The move is thrumming with new possibilities. This is our life, vibrating with unending movement, ceaseless change, impermanence. The fleeting moments we call our days unfold in all of eternity. Teaching at the cemetery last year, all of us who meditated there felt the powerful presence of our ephemeral humanity against a backdrop of eternal peace. We sit among those who have walked this way before on our journey from the unknown to the unknown. We sit together – and we move together, as a community – just like each star moves in a constellation.
And yet, change can be hard. We are sticky creatures, quick to bond with familiarity. Letting go is our practice, but we don’t have to like it! How is it for you when life changes? Do you resent and resist? Or do you seize an opportunity to wake up to a deep and profound truth of our life?
Love Trudy
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Gates open at 6:30pm
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Free onsite parking
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