Wednesday September 30, 2020

 

Livestream Session Notes for Wednesday September 30, 2020

 

Session Theme: The eagle and the chicken…

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

 

All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

 

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

 

The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked.

 

“That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbor. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

 

Mantra: Mountain Solid

 

ON DEMAND RECORDING of today’s Guided Meditation Session

 

Today’s housekeeping items:
Part 2 of podcast episode Mind Blowing Relationships
is now available. Both episodes tie in nicely to our recent theme about the impact of our practice on others.