The Gift of RAIN | Kathleen Roberts

Check out Kathleen's talk on mindfulness & meditation as we dive into the "RAIN" method, and even try it out for ourselves! 

 

Quotes: 

Jon Kabat-Zinn: 

“The core invitation of mindfulness is for you to befriend yourself.”  

 “Mindfulness is essentially a universal approach toward suffering, especially suffering caused by our all-too-human tendency to be caught up in unhealthy mindsets as well as, often, circumstances much larger than we are which sometimes make it difficult to be fully at home in our own bodies and our own lives.”

 “Whatever it is for each of us that prevents us from recognizing and embodying our own beauty and belonging in the face of “the full catastrophe” of the human condition, mindfulness as both a formal meditation practice and as a way of being rapidly makes it evident that awareness itself is already free, both liberated and liberating from such automatic and usually unrecognized habits of mind.”

 

Rumi: 

“Don't turn away. 

Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. 

That's where the light enters you.”

 

Bapuji:

“My child, break your heart no longer.

Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.

You stop feeding on the love which is the wellspring of your vitality.

The time has come – your time to live, to celebrate and see the goodness that you are.

Let no one, no thing, no idea or ideal obstruct you.

If one comes, even in the name of truth, forgive it for its unknowing.

Do not fight – let go and breathe into the goodness that you are.”

 

Discussion Questions:

Did the RAIN meditation bring up anything for you? 

What are some ways that we can have self-compassion in daily life?