Meditation

Find Our Practice Direction

Vow. Resolve that our time together will be met with openness, clear attention, and spacious awareness.

Focus

Listen. Focus 100%. Listening means acknowledging and accepting what is heard, without addition or subtraction. We must be careful not to categorize, define or otherwise accessorize the already complete truth of what we hear. In other words, if we release our grasp on our supposed “position”, we naturally make room for something new.

Be Flexible

Ask questions.  Become curious. Cultivate a willingness to go beyond what we ‘know’. Encounter with genuine interest what arises in the here and now.  Invite the courage that it takes to maintain a “don’t know mind”.

Suspend judgment.  Notice reactions and judgments to others and ourselves, and let them go.  

Practice Right Speech

Avoid gossip, and also protect the confidentiality of our exchange. Speak from experience.  Being ourselves, share the confusion and clarity; look to our experience rather than our opinions. Avoid leaning on the words of experts and authorities.

Become New.  

Risk showing up as we are in the moment, leaving behind our habit mind and also our habitual story lines, about both ourselves and others.

Trust.  Trust the strength and wisdom of process. Refrain from the urge to ‘fix’ or give advice. Rather, see and reflect the completeness of each person, situation and condition, just as it is.  

Become equal.  Recognize that each person speaks with the voice of the whole.  Everything that arises within us and within the dialogue is some aspect of the truth.