Last night my Tibetan Buddhist friend, Mercedes Bahleda, who was visiting from her Buddhist community in Arizona, led us in a Christian-Buddhist meditation. We used an ancient Tibetan Buddhist form of guided meditation to invoke the presence of Jesus into our lives and our hearts. It was beautiful. I'm hoping to have audio of the meditation posted on my blog in the next few days.
We put this together rather quickly with little publicity. We were surprised when people kept showing up. We had over 30 people crammed in the church nursery. We were relegated to the nursery because of all the other thing going on in the Cathedral: we were hosting homeless families in our classrooms, the choir was in the cathedral, a political action group wanting to preserve the right for same-sex marriage in California was in a meeting room, a Buddhist sangha was meeting in our conference room, AA in another room. Amidst all that bustle, we managed to carve out an hour of contemplative time and space. It was absolutely lovely.
-Brian Baker
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Sounds great! one of my favorite moments at Grace Cathedral was during the interfaith conference "Eastern and Western Paths to Healing" co-sponsored with the California Institute for Integral Studies. During the afternoon simultaneous workshops had me going between a Hindu fire ceremony, Sufi zikr, Zen Buddhist meditation, and Jewish and Christian seminars and discussions.
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