How to Begin Naming
Begin by sitting comfortably, focusing awareness on your breathing. As you feel each breath, carefully acknowledge it with a simple name: “in-breath, out-breath,” saying the...
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Purification: The Gateway to Higher States
Learning to concentrate, though initially difficult, works. Gradually, through repeated focus on our subject over hours and days, the mind’s wandering diminishes. It settles down...
Discover What Is Asking for Acceptance
Discover what is asking for acceptance… This may sound like a very complicated and busy way to meditate, but in practice it is very simple....
The Entry to Expanded Consciousness: Access Concentration
The gateway to both the Realms of Absorption and the Realms of Dissolution is a stabilization of heart and mind called access concentration. Access concentration...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 13 – Joy and Its Causes
Mudita is the joy and happiness experienced for oneself and others. This joy is born into everyone, but is not limited to the innocence afforded...
Developing a Healing Attention
Sit comfortably and quietly. Let your body rest easily. Breathe gently. Let go of your thoughts, past and future, memories and plans. Just be present....
Concentration of Mind
Out of a foundation of conscious conduct, the first steps of the mindful way, grows the second aspect of the path, which is called the...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 12 – The One Who Knows
Behind all the drama of our lives, there is something unchanging and ever-present, for everyone to discover. Our methods and practices point us in the...
Inquiry and Observation
Wisdom grows out of our clear seeing in each moment. Seeing the arising and passing of our experience and how we relate to it. It...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 08 – Transforming Darkness
In attempting to draw light into our lives, we inevitably encounter the intrinsic darkness that surrounds our existence. Our task, as honorable beings, is to...
A Sitting Meditation
To begin meditation, select a quiet time and place. Be seated on a cushion or chair, taking an erect yet relaxed posture. Let yourself sit...