Mindfulness Meditation · Hopes and Anxieties
This week’s meditation session is led by Rebecca Li and the theme is Hopes and Anxieties. The guided meditation begins at 21:00.
This card was selected from A Monument to the Anxious and Hopeful, which was on view at the Rubin Museum in 2018. Created by artist Candy Chang and writer James A. Reeves, the installation invited visitors to write down the reasons why they are hopeful and why they are anxious. After writing down their hopes and anxieties on separate cards, they placed the hopeful cards on the blue side and the anxious cards on the red side. The monument was constantly shifting, growing, and changing as it reflected visitors’ greatest hopes and biggest anxieties.
Dr. Rebecca Li, a dharma heir in the lineage of Chan Master Sheng Yen, is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community. She teaches meditation and dharma classes, gives public lectures, and leads retreats in North America and Europe. Li is the author of Allow Joy into Our Hearts: Chan Practice in Uncertain Times, and her book Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method was published by Shambhala Publications in 2023. She is a sociology professor and lives with her husband in New Jersey.
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