Sarmad Sanctuary, Session 2
Date: 4 December 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Location:
Platform LivingRoom
Bospolderlein, 6B
Rotterdam
We’re not home, we are very far from it.
We’re really not Ok. We’re full of rage and sorrow, but also hope and compassion.
“Sarmad Sanctuaries” is a new series of public sessions in which we aim to create a sanctuary for those of us who feel oppressed, who feel they do not belong, who feel homeless.
The structure of the session:
- 20 minutes, sitting meditation (or simply sitting and doing nothing)
- 40 minutes, reading, tea, soup
- 20-30 minutes, sitting meditation
(You are welcome to stay for more tea afterwards)
In this second session, to be held in the living room space of Platform LivingRoom in Delftshaven, we will gather and sit in silence together for the ones who were recently imprisoned or lost their lives for resisting oppression, violence and human disasters caused by tyrannical regimes, whether in Iran, Ukraine, China or Palestine.
This is not a protest, nor a solidarity or fund-raising event.
There is no mic.
Nobody is going to give a speech. There is no spectacle.
The main thing we have here is silence, compassion and a need to feel the hope and to heal.
