Bodhana

Awakening, Perceiving, Understanding

Experiential Notes

The Way

Feeling the call - Responding - Asking for grace - Vision quest - Setting out - Meeting the obstacles - Clearing the way - Following the path - False paths - Courage to return to the starting point -Perseverance - Acceptance - Many paths and no path - New directions

Along the way

Learning - Practice - The false voice of experience - The true voice of experience - Pausing to listen - When paths lead in unexpected directions - Expectations versus what actually happens - A glimpse of the beyond
Taking risks - Getting lost - The inferno - The dark night - Finding and losing - Keeping faith and hope and charity - Self and others
Fear ....of the unknown, of failure, of trying, of success, of change, of action, of stillness, of silence, of being alone
Self doubt - Despair - Renewal.

The Many Voices

Need - Want - Fear - The Critic - The Scoffer - The Defeatist - The False Comforter - The Underminer - The Harsh Judge - The Seducer - The Complacent - The Hypnotist - The Terrified Child - The Spoilt Child - The Resister - The Sabateur.