Sabbath: How our distracted minds find space? (Sylvia Boorstein)

Описание: SYLVIA BOORSTEIN invites us to have a meditative weekly retreat-day called Sabbath. In this video, she shares how each of us can have a weekly ritual of contemplation, storytelling, and deepening spiritual teachings by taking a day off. Sylvia shares some of her own personal meditations she does while waiting in line at the grocery store, or when she notices her mind getting pulled into digital distractions. - See more at: http://www.fireitupwithcj.com/sabbath...

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1) When is Sabbath? Each religion celebrates Sabbath on different days: Muslim's Sabbath is Friday, Jewish Sabbath is Saturday, and Christian Sabbath is Sunday. Every major tradition that endures recognizes the need for Sabbath.

2)What is Sabbath? Sabbath is connected to the word sabbatical, it is a time out from work commitments. This time is used for both rest and to learn new things so that their work and lives can be enriched. (1:37)

3) What do traditional Jewish and Christian religions say about Sabbath? (2:10) The idea is take a time out from the work part of life in order to connect to what the value is of life, or to solidify their ethos. In the Hebrew Bible it says that in Exodus 20:10 the following: "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.…"

4) Why is so hard to observe Sabbath? In the past, shops and stores would close and the weekends were used to visit with family, to relax out in nature, and in renewing our ties to our friends and our faith.

5) What is the work that we should restrain from to honor Sabbath? (6:50)Sylvia shares her Rabbi's discussions on "what is a Sabbath activity?". According to Slyvia's Rabbi, Sabbath activities restore your connection to your family, to the world, to this Earth, and to this cosmos. She encourages us to think less about the activity and more about what that time does for you. Does it nourish your soul and heart? You may think that Gardening, which is work, be prohibited. However, gardening helps you feel good and how good it is to feel alive. Same with phoning and using electronics with friends. While these would traditionally be restricted, Sylvia asks us to focus on our intentions.

6) What should we do with our electronics during Sabbath? (9:43 ) Computers, emails, and texts keep us attached to knowing what is happening at any moment. The vast majority of times, we can turn off our electronics because most things can wait a day. Computers are like lures and bait for our fish-like minds. Try to be free of it and take the rest of the day off. Do we have to "know"? This is a lure.

7) Why is it important to break our trans to electronics and ideas? 12:48 Sylvia shares her own realization of how her attachment to her great ideas while writing a book prevented her from creating a moment of love and connection with a friend who was ill. Sylvia shares how taking a moment to rest and connect with a fellow passenger on a train and created a profound connection with a stranger who was really suffering. 19:20

8) Meditations: Meditation while you are waiting in line: 14:42

8) Why connecting with others is so important?

9)
at is the purpose of Sabbath?
What are the traditions, and things you are supposed to do and not do during Sabbath and why? (rest, spiritual enrichment, celebrate creation--- to remember and to observe, reminder that we are free- kind of work that is creative, or that exercises control or dominion over your environment)


Do you suggest a digital rest as well on Sabbath?
What are the benefits of taking Sabbath?
Why is it so hard for some folks to rest?
Awhile back I went to a conference in Bay Area and one of the themes was mindfulness as an antidote to the distracted digital mind?
Based on your Buddhist and Jewish tradition, how would you describe the phenomena that is happening today with our kids connecting online, but not knowing how to have a real conversation, parents and kids glued to social media? Is it attachment?
What do you see as the long-terms risks of these behaviors?
What are ways we can regain control over this distracted and busy mind?