Mindfulness Meditation · Generosity
This week’s meditation session is led by DaRa Williams and the theme is Generosity.
Buddha Ratnasambhava with Wealth Deities; Tibet; early to mid-14th century; Mineral pigments on cloth; 32 × 26 in. (estimated); Rubin Museum of Art; Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art; C2005.16.39
Golden in color and adorned with jewels, this 14th-century painting from Tibet depicts Ratnasambhava sitting in full lotus position with his right hand open and palm facing outward in the gesture of supreme generosity. Head of the Jewel (ratna means jewel) Buddha Family, Ratnasambhava appears as the Buddha of the south and corresponds with the element of earth and the season of fall. With his gesture of generosity, he destroys pride and greed and attempts to bring equanimity and equality to all.
DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher, and wellness coach. She has been a clinician and administrator in the field of mental health for over twenty-five years. Williams currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan. She is a certified complex trauma focusing-oriented therapist and a practitioner of natural force healing, a vibrational energetic healing system. She has been a meditator for the past twenty years and is a practitioner of both vipassana and ascension meditation. She is a member of the board of directors for the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders Program, and participated in the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training program with Jack Kornfield.
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