Calling all you hungry ghosts

all the lost and the left behind.

Gather round and share this meal

your joy and your sorrow, I make it mine. —Kanromon

The hungry ghost in Buddhism symbolizes the part of us that is constantly hungry for something else, yet never satisfied. Whether we find our craving grasping for our cell phones, another drink, another smoke, pornography, food, sex, relationships, status, success, self improvement or something else—often hidden in spirals of shame, we are probably all familiar with the part of us that wants more!

In dharma practice we are invited to welcome all the lost and seemingly left behind parts of ourselves. To bring curiosity and compassion to our hungry parts, allows us to perhaps begin to uncover what these parts truly want or need.

Join us for this seasonal meditation + ceremony where we will practice welcoming our hungry hearts, and giving them a place in our dharma practice.

We will be creating an altar to the hungry heart and you are welcome to bring something for the altar (you are welcome to put your cell phone on the altar for the evening) or anything else that symbolizes something that your hungry heart grasps for.

This ceremony is a ceremony of welcome and beginning to recognize that once welcomed, and fed the nourishment of our kind curious attention, the energy of the hungry heart can often be transmuted into bodhicitta.

You are also welcome to come in costume, dressing up like one of the manifestations of your hungry ghost.