2023-08-06 | Class 7 | I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully with Open Heart

00:00:20 - Joel Opens the Class wit a Brief Ceremony to Help Situate Us in Big Mind 00:01:20 - We Chant the 'Verse of the Robe' Together 00:02:42 - Figuring Out the Boundaries of the Class 00:07:16 - Joel Offers a Talk On the Precept - I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully and with an Open Heart 00:16:51 - Article - The Birds are Singing, but Not for Me’. Link - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/opinion/hearing-aging-deafness.html By David George Haskell 00:20:26 - Ways in Which we are Different from Other Species - Desire and Bonds 00:30:17 - Joel Leads us into Breakout Rooms with Clear Instruction - Looking at the List of the Precepts - Speaking truthfully - Speaking of Others with Openness and Possibility - Meeting Others on Equal Ground - Cultivating a clear Mind - Taking Only What is freely given, and giving Freely of all that I Can - The Way Of Letting go Of Anger - The Way Of Supporting Life, Consider How These other precepts help inform us of the Precept ‘I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully and with an Open Heart’ 00:31:44 - Joel Explains the Format of the Breakout Rooms - Sit for 5 minutes - Write for 10 Minutes Individually - 3 Minutes Each to Share What you are Willing/wish to Share - if you Do not wish to Share, Please take your 3 minutes to sit with others in Silence - 5 minutes for reflecting together/sharing - 25 minutes in Total 00:33:45 - Breakout Rooms Begin - Instructions in Above TimeStamp - 00:30:17 and 00:32:44 00:33:58 - Discussion Around Recording 00:37:02 - Reflections and Sharings for this Particular Precept were not Recorded To Offer Dana Please Go to: Appamada.org/contribute MB