Today, we are having
a whole day of mindfulness for about 330 people involved in the field
of education at the
Preparatoria Ocho, in Mexico City. People have come from the
university itself as well as people from
other schools and places around Mexico. Brother Phap Luu
reminds us that the pratice is a miracle : actually, being here
together today we are not losing our
time, because not only we are learning about the practice, and we are
learning to transmit it to
the young generations, but we are also here to practice for ourself
and to enjoy doing so! Our
Brother continues his sharing by giving keys on the important topic
of how to deal with strong
emotions, and doing so he invites the whole audience to stand up and
each one of us to become a tree,
first of all in the wind, then in the storm, and finally facing the
sun, in order to experiment our
feeling of stability and flexibility in any state of our mind. After
that, Sister Bôi Nghiêm explains the
principles of walking meditation and shows us how to walk as people
who are truly alive,
with lightness and creativity. In that way, she leads us to a
football field to benefit peacefully from the
warm sun that is offered to us today.
Once again we are
very grateful to meet such a group of educators who are thirsty of
learning about the pratice of
mindfulness and so enthousiastic to continue it by joining a Sangha
or applying it in their classrooms
after one day only of introduction and workshops like this.
