Appamada

00:01:14 - Poem - What is Our Life About - By Ezra Bayda (see Below) 00:17:39 - Laurie Explains the Dharma Activity (see Below on YouTube) 00:19:34 - Participants go into pairs for 26 minutes Exercise Get into pairs. Decide who will speak first Each person will take 10-15 minutes to do the clinging exercise separately Each person will share their experience of the exercise with the other for 5 minutes. Return to group 1. Think of a time (it could be now when you were caught in the illusion of a separate self. Not the worst situation, something small. 2. Notice the clinging that arises. Recall without judgment your feelings sensations. and state of mind 3. Practice letting go by relaxing the tightening of the mind and body. It is a relaxing of your grasp on how you want things to be. Say to yourself, "I don’t need things to be my way. don’t need them to be any way….content either way, because no matter what happens, the universe is truly divine 1. Notice the clinging that arises. Recall