Tonglen Practice (abridged)
from “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche The Preliminary Tonglen Practice The best way to do this practice, and any practice of Tonglen, is to begin by ...
Practice: Contemplating the Cosmos
The universe is not a tragic expression of meaningless chaos, but a marvelous display of an orderly cosmos. —Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Barbara Holmes suggests that the emerging story of ...
Love
We live within a great paradox that God created otherness which is the source of sin, the source of suffering, but is the prerequisite for Love; to love one another. When ...
Dialogue – A proposal
By David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett Contents: Dialogue – A proposal Why dialogue Purpose and meaning What dialogue is not How to start a dialogue Suspension Numbers Duration Leadership ...
The Welcoming Practice
The Welcoming Practice created by Mary Mrozowski (1925–1993), a spiritual teacher, mystic, and founding member of Contemplative Outreach. It is based on her personal experience of surrender as essential to transformation ...
Contemplation is…
Contemplation is a special consciousness of the presence of Ultimate Reality that by definition exceeds description and results in a transformation of the subject who receives it. It’s not enough to ...
Practice: Do No Harm
Ruth King is a Buddhist teacher and founder of Mindful Members Meditation Community in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Buddhism, mysticism is defined differently than it is in Christian context, but it ...
Whole-Body Awakening in Six Practices – Part One
Theologian Ramone Panikkar, says that Christ is “the Christian symbol for the whole of reality.” Panikkar further points out that the “whole of reality” consists of three seamlessly connected dimensions: (1) ...
Contemplative Practices & Resources
Contemplative Practices: Drumming: Practicing surrendering the mind and attuning the body through rhythm Walking Meditation: Taking slow, mindful steps Ecstatic Dance: Moving freely to music Chanting: Singing with intention Centering Prayer: ...
Contemplation to Oneness
A spiritual path that does not lead to a living commitment to . . . the Kingdom of God within and around us everywhere for everyone, is no path at all. ...
14 Precepts of a Participatory Contemplative Spirituality
Participatory Contemplative Spirituality is where practitioners bring their practice, wisdom, and insights from contemplation and wisdom teachings, into the real world situations of social, political, environmental and economic suffering and injustice. ...
What Does a Spiritual Director Actually Do?
It is not unusual, when some asks me what I do, for their next question to be What is a spiritual director? or What does a spiritual director do? Not many ...
What is Spiritual Formation?
My children, I am again in the pain of childbirth, until Christ is formed in you… — Galatians 4: 19 For God beholds with his merciful eyes not what you are, ...
The Philosophy of Nonviolence
excerpted from “Stride Toward Freedom”, 1958 by Martin Luther King, Jr. The philosophy of nonviolence Since the philosophy of nonviolence played such a positive role in the Montgomery movement, it may ...
