Sitting With The Earth
In the landscape of spring,
there is nothing inferior,
nothing superior.
Flowering branches grow naturally
—some short, some long.
-attributed to the Buddha
Just like the branches in spring, we all grow in our own unique ways, and there’s no need to compare or judge ourselves.Every expression of who you are is valuable and beautiful, just as it is. So whether you feel like you’re blossoming in a certain way or growing at your own pace, it’s all part of your unique journey.Embrace who you are and trust that your own natural way of being is perfect. You bring something special to the world just by being authentically you.
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Services
UNDOING THE PATH
What Is Left To Do Or Think About
When We Don't Put Ourselves On A Path?
When we allow ourselves to Be without engaging in any progress or projects, we let go of compelled activity – and we also let go of compelled stillness or rigid silent meditation. Speaking and silence come and go, and we aren’t on our way anywhere. When we notice ourselves on a path again, we can gently undo it, leaving us simply Here.I am offering a space for welcoming and allowing what the moment brings.
VOICE/VIDEO
We begin with some silence, or by checking in with each other. From there, we explore what being alive is like for us, sometimes sharing, sometimes just noticing. The space invites us into "what's next." And what's next is thisReserve a space to connect with me over phone, Signal, or Skype:
TEXTING
At the time our session begins, I will text you to open our channel. We rest in awareness and share texts along the way. Inviting acceptance and compassion, we explore our given experience together
SWTE Retreats
For those who want to explore this form of
being and contemplation more deeply with a retreat
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About
"When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.”
– Ajahn Chah
Open, Allowing, Free
Stepping Out Of Our Stories
SWTE offers an opportunity to let go of attachments and aversions — or at least to observe them dispassionately. When we meet, there is no agenda, nothing to do, and nothing in particular to think about.This does not mean that we are rigid in any stillness or silence that arises. We are present for each other with nothing to achieve.We may observe how we construct problems and suffering. We may encounter a full range of thoughts and feelings. We welcome them all with acceptance and gratitude. And when we can’t do that, we can be with our non-acceptance and feel what that is like.Here is the Sitting With The Earth podcastYou can learn about G, the owner of SWTE, HERE*
Links
These are a few links related to sitting with the Earth that I would like to share with you
Peter Fenner - Awareness MovieMichael Singer & Temple of the UniverseJoan TollifsonSounds True Intro Mindfulness CourseSeekers Page at CSNSCHow To Experience Pure JoyHuman Kindness Foundation
Only contentment can make you happy — desires fulfilled breed more desires. Keeping away from all desires and contentment in what comes by itself is a very fruitful state — a precondition to the state of fullness.
Don't distrust its apparent sterility and emptiness. Believe me, it is the satisfaction of desires that breeds misery. Freedom from desires is bliss.– Nisargadatta*
Contact
+1-202-374-8836
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g (at) swte.oneG Pflantzbaum
Sitting with The Earth
206 Brookes Ave #8
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
U.S.A.Other Endeavors
"I feel that the most that any of us can offer to society is acceptance of ourselves, and each other, just as the ordinary expressions that we have to be. That isn't easy...even when we see clearly that we're all expressions of a great mystery, and have to be what the mystery expresses."I think it's so valuable that, in a world filled with judgment, there are those who are offering this permission to others, to be who they are, just as they are, and to value their own unique participation in life."- Darryl Bailey*