This week is Step 7 of The Practice of Living Awareness: Interlude. “Meditation is an experience, not a thought process.” Spirit Fire’s website speaks of this Step well: We pause for step 7 to allow steps 1 through 6 to find their productive connectedness in the whole of our meditation practice. We begin to experience … More Mountain-like Shamatha (peaceful abiding)
Tibetan thangkas are one form of world mystical art that convey layers of teaching. The image before us is Samantabhadra. It represents two beings or two qualities that ultimately are inseparable. The image of Samantabhadra/dri is simple: a generic unadorned male buddha blue-black in color meditating with a sinewy white female buddha arising. Proportionally she … More Meditation instruction through imagery: 1
“Space. The final frontier.” This is true of both meditation and science fiction. Through meditation we learn to create space between thoughts, to not immediately, and therefore without reflection engage emotions. Doing so, we learn that the space of mind is where the insights and creativity are. Space is the final frontier because it opens all … More Waves of Mind: 3