Saturday, May 9, 2009
8:30am - 9:45am
Open To All
Inclusive & non-sectarian. Please feel free to invite friends & family.
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1500 North College Ave, Claremont, CA 91711

“Luminosity is the sense of celebration that comes with the sense of humor. Humor and celebration are indivisible at this point: celebrations means sense of humor. Celebration means a sense of delightfulness, an uplifting quality. We could use all sorts of jargon, but fundamentally speaking, celebration is a sense of earth, actually celebrating the earth, and a sense of earth and space making love together. Humor comes from space, or sky, and earth is the celebration. When the earth begins to celebrate, space begins to make love to the earth — that’s the meeting point of earth and space…. Earth blossoms and sky begins to pay attention to it. Sky begins to shine all kinds of light over the earth and accommodate it with its space to grow flowers or trees, to maintain rocks, waterfalls, skyscrapers, and highways — whatever we have on this earth. We don’t have to be particularly romantic about it. We’re not just talking about nature, we’re talking about reality.”

– Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, From “Light-Heartedness,” in GLIMPSES OF REALIZATION: THE THREE BODIES OF ENLIGHTENMENT pages 45-46. Edited by Judith Lief. Published by Vajradhatu Publications.
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