Shared Breath

In mindfulness meditation, we teach how to be aware of the breath as an anchor or refuge, and in our current world, to invite awareness into the breath is to invite again awareness of “I can’t breath…”  That fact needs to be met with a lot of care and compassion.  This week we open to an awareness of George Floyd’s plea for breath and how it can inform us through our practice how to come into a stronger, more compassionate and responsive relationship with ourselves and our world.  Helpful resources are listed below.   From Rumi (translator?): I said: what about my eyes? He said: Keep them on the road. I said: What about my passion? He said: Keep it burning. I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: Pain and sorrow. He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.   Resmaa Menakem:  www.resmaa.com, My Grandmother’s Hands, https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/ Ruth King:  www.ruthking.net, Mindful of Race Tara Brach podcast:  www.tarabrach.com/courageous-presence-racism/