Session 026: Closing Unfinished Business

Closing Unfinished Business

Dhamma Talk + Guided Meditation Session 026: July 1st, 2020, by Sophia Ojha Ensslin and Cristof Ensslin

Banner Photo by Omid Armin on Unsplash

1| Status Report

What is the state of your emotional and mental health? What burdens are you carrying?

What hurts and pains have you yet to transmute into love?

What have you learnt about your self and your life journey this year? Let's get a status report, let's take inventory to understand what is going on.

2| Unfinished business

Unfinished Business can be of many kinds.

1. actual projects that were started and left undone for whatever reason

2. promises made but unkept to yourself and others

3. thoughts, words and actions taken or not taken

4. emotional burden that was never resolved

3| Four Sources of Unfinished Business

It's four areas that we carry unfinished business in: 1. Past Events 2. People and Relationships 3. Self - expectations, regrets, "failures", unkept promises to self, unfinished projects, dreams and hopes.

4. Ancestral/past lives

We can close out all of these. And step into the present moment.

Dhamma Talk by Cristof

Meditation Guided by Sophia

Handout

This week there is no handout as we presented slides during the session instead.

4| How do we heal this all?

Let's imagine our burdens and unfinished business as little granules of crystals. Each crystal represents something that is a burden for you. Now let's dissolve it.

5| Dissolve the unfinished business

a. Reflect journal or reflect on the situation to learn and grow from it.

b. Forgive forgive ourselves and others and the situation, understanding how karma and seeds work, taking responsibility for our part in the situation, practicing letting go. Forgiving is an act of giving to others, an offering but we do it for ourselves first and foremost.

c. Be Grateful Become infused with gratitude for it because there is a kernel of wisdom for your growth in it. Gratitude is about taking responsibility for what has come to our door. How do we care for it.

6| Practice living in the present moment

1. Mindfulness from moment to moment

2. Formal meditation practice

3. Reading and learning from spiritual teachers

4. Writing about what we are learning

5. Reflecting on past events and situations and letting go of them consciously

6. Taking intentional action to heal ourselves

7. Learning to know ourselves and understanding our mind.