SUNDAY 11TH MAY // 5.30PM – LONDON

Join us in meditation that will be synchronized with a meditation flash mob taking place with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh in Barcelona on Sunday 11th May at 5.30pm GMT. Also joined by groups in Toyko and California.

From 5.30pm we will sit for 30 minutes in front of Marble Arch monument, which is directly across from Marble Arch Tube Station (Central Line).

See Picture: http://bit.ly/pP9htr
See Map: http://tiny.cc/lhzpm

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Sitting meditation is a way for us to return home and give full attention and care to ourselves. As we sit, we can begin by simply following our in-breath and out-breath. As we do this, we can notice with full attention what is within and around us. We let our minds become spacious and our heart soft and kind. When we sit down peacefully, breathing and smiling with awareness, we have sovereignty over ourselves. We can be with whatever is within us – pain, anger, irritation, joy, love or peace. We are with whatever is there without being carried away. We let it come, let it stay, then let it go.

Most of all, sitting is a chance for you to do nothing! You have nothing at all to do; just enjoy sitting and breathing in and out.

Sitting and breathing, we produce our true presence in the here and now and offer it to our community and to the world. This is the purpose of sitting: being here, fully alive and fully present. Feel free to follow your own practice during this time.

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Please feel free to bring something comfortable to sit on and a waterproof mat (in case of rain).

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This is an event open to everyone, all ages, from every path, experienced or not. Let us come together as one community.

“If you are a Buddhist, please come. If you are a Christian please come. If you are Jewish, Muslim, or belong to or identify with any other religions, creed or peace organization, please come. If you are white, brown, black, yellow, red or any other colour, please come.

We shall learn together that wrong perceptions of self and others are at the foundation of separation, fear, hate, and violence; and that togetherness and collaboration is possible.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Event in Barcelona with Thich Nhat Hanh: https://www.facebook.com/events/554327711347593/

Sign up to www.meetup.com/meditationflashmob to receive future invitations to your email.

Join us for a global meditation flash mob co-ordinated with over 300 cities around the world, on the occasion of World Water Day.

Every year the UN designates 22 March as World Water Day. It’s a chance for us to think about what freshwater means to us. And what it could mean to the millions of people around the world living without it.

This meditation is an opportunity to reflect collectively on the importance of water in our lives and in the world, and send out our love and gratitude.

We Love Water.

We Thank Water.

We Respect Water.

We Are All Water.

We Are All One.

– Masaru Emoto, Messages from Water

When: Saturday 22nd March 2014

Time: 11.30am to 12.10pm

Where: Potters Field Park, next to City Hall

Where: Potters Fields Park can be accessed either via Tooley St, Tower Bridge Road, the Queen’s Walk from More London, or from Shad Thames. The best postcode to use for SATNAV or Google maps is SE1 2AA.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/3hrveh4

Nearest station: London Bridge

What will happen: 

11.30am: The sound of the bell will mark the start of silent sitting meditation. The purpose is to stop in the here and now, and to simply observe our in-breath and out-breath. By practising mindful breathing, we can share our inner peace with those around us. By sitting simply to sit, we can just be in the moment.

Please feel free to follow your own practice if you have one. Feel free to mindfully stretch or move if your begin to ache from your sitting posture.

During this meditation, you can also reflect on the importance of water in our lives and in the world, and send out our love and gratitude.

12.00pm: The sound of the bell will mark the start of the sound bath. Use any mantra or sounds, for example, Om, Ah, Ong, Nah or any other sound that calls you personally. You can move closer to one another, donate your physical presence, your positive energy and your voice. Feel free to bring instruments to add to the sounds.

12.10pm: The final sound of the bell will mark the end of the meditation.

Bring: Feel free to bring a cushion, mat or stool if you have one. Instruments to add to the sound bath, such as singing bowls.

You will be responsible for keeping your personal belongings safe.

For: This is an event open and free to everyone, of all ages, from every path, experienced or not.

Links: 

Pictures of previous meditation flash mobs: http://www.facebook.com/wakeuplondon/photos

Videos of previous meditation flash mobs:
http://wakeuplondon.org/meditation-flash-mobs/videos/

Our intentions: 

1. To create an environment for people from all walks of life to come together in meditation.

2. To spread awareness of meditation to the public.

3. To come together as a community to send positive intentions out into the world.

4. To show that leading by example is the best way to lead. Simple acts can stimulate major paradigm shifts in thinking

Co-ordinated with Unify.

We are choosing to support WaterAid UK, an international charity that transforms lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation. Please go their website and read about the wonderful work they do and consider making a donation.

www.wateraid.org/uk

“Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.” – Jean-Michel Cousteau