Compassionate Response Learning Goals
- We affirm that we are gifted
- With capable, expansive, powerful hearts and minds
- That allow us to joyfully
- Harmonize and strengthen
- Our personal energy fields.
- Through meditation we can
- Heighten our awareness
- Of how we are currently responding
- To life’s challenges and opportunities.
- Let’s choose
- To generate compassion
- And Golden Body energy and
- Build community
- For the benefit of all sentient beings.
Why Now?
This is a particularly good time in the Earthchanges to gather for Compassionate Response and Golden Body energy practice. It happens that Mercury, the planet that governs communications, is going retrograde October 14 – November 3, 2020. This astrological influence usually brings communication breakdowns, mistakes in administration, and misunderstandings. In addition, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic shutdowns, and the US elections, many people are experiencing fear, anger, desperation, hopelessness, illness, and exhaustion right now.
How Can We Help?
“[W]e don’t have to accept the world that we’re born into as fixed and impermeable. When you zoom in, it’s atoms just like us. And they move all the time. And through energy and focus, we can actually change it.”—Laurene Powell Jobs, New York Times interview, September 8, 2020
We address our suffering in Compassionate Response meditation. Form follows energy, and we can shift energy through awareness. Constrictions can open and we can experience more flow, which
- Brings vitality
- Nourishes us
- Gets communicated, even if we don’t talk about it
- Helps life all around us.
RoseLight’s Golden Body energy helps you connect with higher flow and experience higher consciousness. Together we can build our bodies of higher vibrational energy for strength and hope.
Setup
Online Events UK and their technical support team are hosting these Compassionate Response practice sessions. Join us from your computer, pad, or smart phone. These sessions will not be recorded. If you attend, we ask that you agree to practice confidentiality, to not repeat anything of the sharings you hear in the sessions. Thank you.
Suggested Preparation for Practice Sessions
- Review this free video talk about the RoseLight Compassionate Response process and
- Review these free guided video meditations: RoseLight Awakening Your Golden Body Online, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
Format of Compassionate Response 2020 Practice Sessions
- Welcome
- Introductions
- Set intentions
- Guided practice of the four steps of Compassionate Response:
- Permission
- Distance
- Drawing-in
- Heart
- Partner exercises
- Sharing
- What You Are Taking From Practice
- Closing
Details
- Wednesdays, weekly, eight RoseLight Compassionate Response sessions total
- October 7, 2020 – November 25, 2020
- 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Pacific time – except on October 28, 2020 when it will be 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific time (because England changes their clocks before USA)
- Join one, several, or all eight sessions
- Sliding scale tuition: Suggested fee is 20 £ (about $26 US) per session, with a pay-what-you-can option
- Open to beginners & experienced students
- Register directly with Online Events
- Register for the October 7 practice session
- Register for the October 14 practice session
- Register for the October 21 practice session
- Register for the October 28 practice session
- Register for the November 4 practice session
- Register for the November 11 practice session
- Register for the November 18 practice session
- Register for the November 25 practice session
If you’d like to explore RoseLight home study guided meditations for Building the Golden Body™ you can find the audio files and transcripts for sale here.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche always used to emphasize the importance of unifying the practice and your life. He said, “It is not when things go well that you can judge a true practitioner. But when adverse circumstances arise, then you can clearly see the shortcomings of the practice.” Mind training should become an integral part of your ongoing experience, a practice that you can apply whatever the conditions. When this happens, difficult circumstances will not dishearten you, nor will favorable ones elevate you. Check repeatedly to see whether your way of being and the teachings have become one, and whether you can apply them in any situation.—Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche
Web page updated September 8, 2020