the mystical hearth 🔥 ft. Milo North Burn
Dear hearth-tender 🔥
The Mystical Hearth (www.themysticalhearth.com) is a Sunday service for pluralistic explorations of the sacred in community. It is a place to practice reverence without dogma, to re-remember who we are, and to be together in the vastness of whatever we call God, Mystery, Reality, Love. You do not need a specific belief to belong here, or any belief at all. Only a willingness to be honest, present, and open with however the sacred emerges for you and together.
The Hearth is the simplest sacred technology: a living center we tend to together. It belongs to no one, yet it warms everyone.
We tend to this center at each service through different portals:
❤️ co-creation of altar
🧘♂️ guided collective meditation
🗣️ a sacred passage and sermon offered by a teacher from rotating wisdom lineages
📚 45 mins of deep reading of a sacred text of one's choosing (however you define sacred; whether that's a physics or 1,000 year old text)
✨ reading out loud passages or poetry that have moved us during our individual reading time
This week’s guest: Milo North Burn (he/him) is a meditation teacher with over fifteen years of practice in the Insight Meditation and Soto Zen traditions, including several cumulative years on silent retreat and years living in monastic communities such as Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He has studied closely with many elder teachers including Joseph Goldstein, Greg Scharf, Leslie James, and Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi.
Milo is the founder of Boundless Refuge (www.boundlessness.org), where he leads meditation retreats—including retreats of up to three months—at their retreat space in Mendocino, and offers monthly daylongs, individual practice meetings, and other forms of practice support in the Bay Area. His teaching emphasizes meeting experience with mindful awareness as a direct path to liberation and a compassionate way of being.
Please bring:
📚 one sacred text to read during sacred reading time (whatever sacred means to you!)
🥘 sacred object to add to our altar
❤️ your full presence and open heart to step into vertical time
👫 a friend +1
💰 100% of donations from this event go to ritual supples, snacks and tea
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