Birth of the Senses

This weekend is Vesak, which is the birth, enlightenment and the passing way of the Buddha, which occurred on the same day in different years, so we are told.

We then read a part of a Sutta about the birth of Buddha
click here - (a more up to date is avaialable in book form)

Short mediation. Just relax allow you mind to contemplate what birth is.

So this morning we started to give birth to magazine about the six senses.

So lets see how objects give birth
Each group is to take a object
1) Fruit 2) wool 3) Zafu 4) toilet paper 5) blank piece of paper 6) socks

See what you can turn your object into- give it a birth.
For example a walking stick can be used to push a button at a distance.
 

Explanation about this session

In this session we are looking at the way our mind gives birth to ideas. Watching the chain reactions of the mind. With awareness we can choice whether we want to follow a state or not - jus witness the whole event