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Bodha Sambhava

Adele Satori
Image shows the ocean at sunset. A tidepool is surrounded by rocks and reflects the sky.

I’m in deep reflection with gratitude, love, and awe, at the departure from Earth of my beloved teacher, Lorin Roche, PhD, co-founder of The Radiance Sutras School of Meditation. Beyond words, really for all that he, his partner in life and teaching Camille Maurine, all my teachers, mentors, the behind the scenes magic makers, and the global community of friends I’ve been gifted.

I like using his book The Radiance Sutras as an oracle, and here’s what I opened to this evening.

Sutra 104
Holiness permeates everywhere.
Senses cannot grasp it.
Images cannot represent it.

It is totally free—
Free to appear as form,
Free to be beyond form.

Heart and body an mind in unison,
Attend to the unimaginable.
In the intercourse of unknowable and known,
An awakening will be born in you
As you join with that reality
which you already are.
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From the illumination essay that accompanies the sutra: “bodha sambhava: to come into intimacy with pure consciousness.”

I can only imagine that Lorin is dancing a beautiful dance of intimacy with the unknowable.

Much love to Camille, all my teachers, the behind the scene magic makers, and the community I’ve come to love so deeply

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Drawing Memory

Adele Satori
Image shows a pastel drawing of an ocean beach. There are waves coming to shore. On the right is a large boulder, with a yellow sun just to the left of the boulder.

Consider all the pain and all the pleasure
You have ever experienced
As waves on a very deep ocean which you are.

From the depths, witness those waves,
Rolling along so bravely, always changing,
Beautiful in their self-sustaining power.

Marvel that once, you identified with
Only the surface of this ocean.
Now embrace waves, depths, undersea mountains,
Out to the farthest shore.
~Insight verse 136, “The Radiance Sutras”, Lorin Roche, PhD.
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The image I drew in a recent Playing With Creativity and Meditation class that my friend Andrea Abrahamson and I co-teach at the online Radiance Sutras School of Meditation. It was her turn to facilitate, and the theme was travel.  

Going into the meditation, we were invited to attune to our senses. I live on a really busy street, and the ebb and flow of traffic began to sound like ocean waves to me.  I could see the image I drew so clearly, so out it came.  As I worked with the pastels, my fingers blending the colours together also sounded like the ocean to me, so I played with that… moving my hand and much of my body, creating the sound of the ocean. The movement of waves. The tingling of my fingers reminded me a little of the sharp tingling of sand under my bare feet.

It’s my favourite little beach in Pacific Palisades, and is still closed after the January fires. I looked at the satellite map recently, tracing the route down the twists and turns down Sunset Blvd. that I’ve enjoyed driving.  So much is gone; I’m not sure when I’ll have the heart to make the drive again. It’s so wonderful to have the memory of it, and now this image, as one of my doorways into meditation.

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Sutra 16, The Radiance Sutras

Adele Satori

Sutra 16

The roar of joy that set the worlds in motion
Is reverberating in your body
And the space between all bodies.
Beloved, listen.

Find that exuberant vibration
Rising new in every moment,
Humming in your secret places,
Resounding through the channels of delight.
Know you are flooded by it always.

Float with the sound.
Melt with it into divine silence.
The sacred power of space will carry you
Into the dancing radiant emptiness
That is the source of all.
The ocean of sound is inviting you
Into its spacious embrace,
Calling you home.

“The Radiance Sutras”, Lorin Roche, PhD

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Sutra 16, The Radiance Sutras

Adele Satori

Sutra 16

The roar of joy that set the worlds in motion

Is reverberating in your body

And the space between all bodies

Beloved, Listen.

Find that exuberant vibration

Rising new in every moment,

Humming in your secret places,

Resounding through the channels of delight,

Know you are flooded by it always.

Float with the sound.

Melt with it into divine silence.

The sacred power of space will carry ou

Into the dancing radiant emptiness that is the source of all.

The ocean of sound is inviting you

Into its spacious embrace,

Calling you home.
“The Radiance Sutras”, Lorin Roche, PhD