3 Part Breathing Practice (Body)
Stand, sit, or lie in a comfortable position. Take several deep breaths and relax. Inhale through your nose and fill your belly with breath. Fully sense what it is to breathe ...
3-Body Workout (Body)
3-Body Workout (video) I. Causal Body Standing and breathing naturally… Notice the suchness, the is-ness of this and every moment. I am this suchness. I am the openness in which all things ...
Integral Life Practice Matrix
It’s as simple as: Pick one practice form each of the Four Core Modules Add practices from the Auxiliary Modules as you wish Go! (Gold Star Practices recommended)
The Four Layers of Consciousness
The Inner Workings of Our Minds Abhidharma, Buddhism’s map of the mind, is sometimes treated as a topic of merely intellectual interest. In fact, says Thich Nhat Hanh, identifying the different ...
Midrash
The best way in which a Christian can interpret Scripture is to do so as Jesus did! It almost sounds too simple, doesn’t it? Yet, ironically, this has not been the ...
Lectio Divina
Lectio divina (Latin for sacred reading) is a contemplative way of reading and praying with Scripture. Rather than trying to rationally understand a static text, this practice helps us be present ...
Freeing ourselves of unconscious patterns
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”–Carl Jung The Enneagram supports us in freeing ourselves of unconscious patterns by helping us ...
The Greatest of These Is Love
It’s so simple that it’s hard to teach. Our Christian mission is to awaken us to what we already know is true: The foundation of everything is love because “God is ...
Praying like Saint Francis
Prayer is something that people of all religious traditions understand as a necessary component of holy living. And yet somehow, the mystical path is often seen as accessible only to those ...
Practice Right Now
Each moment of daily life is an opportunity to arrive in the present moment. Gathas are short verses that we can recite during daily activities to help us return to the ...
Be Mindful in Daily Life
Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful ...
Practice: Childlike Sincerity
We have each had a taste of nondual consciousness: the face of our beloved, a child at play, the sound of running water, the intimacy of darkness in the middle of ...
Tonglen
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön shares the practice of tonglen as a way of holding suffering and awakening compassion: In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. ...
Tonglen
Meditation: Tonglen or Giving and Receiving: A Practice of Great Mercy 1 Cultivating Mercy The practice of Tonglen or Giving and Receiving is done to develop our compassion and our ability ...
