Every week, few of us come together for a 90 minute virtual call to have a dialogue around a particular value and reading. To join, simply RSVP below and you'll be sent all the dial-in information.

This week, our reading is Cultivation Is For All Beings  -- an excerpt from Heng Sure and Heng Chau's Highway Dharma Letters. It is in continuation with the passage of last week: Field of Blessings and part of the same letter which you can read here. 

Some question we'll invite:

• How do you draw a boundary between “inner and outer,” “single and inexpressible number," “small and large” worlds?”
• What does “Cultivation” mean to you? Can you share some personal practices?
• While we are still on the journey of full awakening, how can we serve others without adding more suffering in the world?

 
As context, here's a quote from David Bohm that describes our approach to this call: 

"Awakening the process of dialogue itself as a free flow of meaning among all the participants. In the beginning, people were expressing fixed positions, which they were tending to defend, but later it became clear that to maintain the feeling of friendship in the group was much more important than to hold any position. Such friendship has an impersonal quality in the sense that its establishment does not depend on a close personal relationship between participants. A new kind of mind thus begins to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. In this development the group has no pre-established purpose, though at each moment a purpose that is free to change may reveal itself. The group thus begins to engage in a new dynamic relationship in which no speaker is excluded, and in which no particular content is excluded. Thus far we have only begun to explore the possibilities of dialogue in the sense indicated here, but going further along these lines would open up the possibility of transforming not only the relationship between people, but even more, the very nature of consciousness in which these relationships arise."

To join the call, just RSVP below with your email address.  Please note that the time is 6:00 AM Indian Standard Time on July 4, 2017 and 5:30 PM PST on July 3, 2017; you can convert it to your timezone here.