FOOTSTEPS MEDITATION & PRACTICE SESSION

Name: FOOTSTEPS MEDITATION & PRACTICE SESSION
Start: 2025-11-05T08:45:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-05T10:15:00+11:00
Location: Thirroul District Community Centre

Schedule

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 08:45 am to 10:15 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Thirroul District Community Centre | Wollongong, NS

We hope you can join us this Wednesday evening as we continue to practice with the 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness, Awareness of the Mind in the Mind.

Last session, among other things, we shared about the practice of cultivating the positive seeds that lie deep within us, in our ‘Store Consciousness’, like a gardener, encouraging beautiful flowers and vegetables to grow through watering and tender care. Our Store Consciousness (like the earth) contains many wholesome seeds, like joy, gratitude and peace, as well as less wholesome seeds, like envy, resentment and anger. Just like a gardener, what we water – what our mind pays attention to – grows stronger.

In this beautiful article below, Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) shares how our “Mind Consciousness” acts as a gardener to cultivate these positive or negatives states of mind, and that in every moment, this is our choice.

“The gardener—mind consciousness—has to trust the earth, because it is the earth that brings forth the fruit of understanding and compassion. The gardener also has to recognize and identify the positive seeds in the store consciousness, and practice day and night to water those seeds and help them grow.
The garden, the store consciousness, nourishes and brings about the result. The flower of awakening, understanding, and love is a gift from the garden. The gardener only has to take good care of the garden in order for the flower to have a chance to grow”.

https://plumvillage.org/articles/the-mind-as-a-gardener

There is also a link to a few Dharma short talks, and a longer one that follows, that you may wish to listen to as we continue our practice with awareness of the mind.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=544945139187813