In this talk and community discussion we will be exploring how to skillfully use the beauty and challenges of polyamory as a means to grow spiritually, and we’ll seek to do so from both Buddhist and Daoist perspectives. This talk is the first of a seven-part discussion series in which we’ll be exploring polyamory as a vehicle for inner personal development and cultivation. This first session will be an introduction and exploration of mindfulness, precepts, and polyamory.

Mindfulness components of Buddhism and Daoism are common to most meditation practices, and we’ll review them so that all participants feel fully engaged in our conversation. What is likely less common is that precepts - guidelines and suggestions for how one may or may not choose to live - also play an important role in spiritual growth from both a Buddhist and a Daoist perspective.

The mention of precepts/guidelines can be a sensitive point, and thus inviting multiple perspectives and voices to these dialogues is of central importance… even those of us hosting these conversations will have different takes on how to best implement precepts as supportive guidelines! Perhaps contrary to normative projections of what polyamory is, we find it to be an exceptionally fertile lens for developing inward-looking and growing our mindful, perceptual, and spiritual selves; we find living life within a polyamorous framework to be greatly enhanced via the gifts of mindfulness, precepts, and developing a rich inner life!

By coming together as a curious, open, trusting, and vulnerable community, we can each benefit from the wisdom, perspectives, and practices others have considered or employed in navigating the many ways we can show up for ourselves and others with attuned presence, continually deepening care, and an increased sense of relational ease and freedom.

TOPICS FOR EXPLORATION

1.What do we mean by mindfulness?

2.What do we mean by precepts?

3.Embodiment, Presence, Concentration, Discipline

4.Living from Core Values & Intentions

5.‘‘Right’ without duality’, aligning with our deeper nature

6.Benevolence & Interpreting ‘do not kill/harm’

7.Balanced Righteousness & Interpreting ‘do not steal’

8.Sincerity & Interpreting ‘do not say yes and means no’

9.Propriety & Interpreting ‘do not be licentious’

10.Wisdom & Interpreting ‘do not get intoxicated’

11.Wuwei: without artificial effort

12.Polyamory as vehicle for expansion

13.Precepts Applied via Polyamory: Caring, Boundaries, Consent,

14.Attunement, Discernment

15.Unlabeled: Opening to Untethered Possibility

Discussion Co-Hosts: Jonathan and Rafael Langer-Osuna, a Daoist priest with the lineage name 宗妙. Their profile can be found here: https://plra.io/m/rafaellangerosuna28

Join us for this exciting community exploration!

Online Event: Cost $20

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Poly/ENM Meditation Community

A space for Poly/ENM and sex positive folks interested in meditation to connect with each other.

Follow our ‘organization’ here: https://plra.io/m/org/polyenm-meditation-community

Follow our chat thread here: https://plra.io/m/chat/polyenm-meditation-commu