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December Audio Meditation
September 2018 Audio Meditation
Here’s the YouTube version of this meditation, with video accompaniment:
2025 April Meditation
Settling into timeless stillness; notice if it’s becoming easier and easier to access this state of being and the frequencies that arise within it; bring to mind the quality of compassion, the frequency of this state of mind and being; radiate compassion to your whole body-mind being, offering your awareness and care to the whole community that is your body; to the complexity and richness of your emotional life; to the active presence of your mental life; to the deep quality of your spiritual life; then radiate compassion to your environment and to your world, including humans, other forms of earth-kin, and the earth itself. Imagine yourself moving into your everyday activities resonating with the quality, the frequency of compassion.
Here’s the audio version:
Here’s the YouTube version if you’d like to see images of nature while listening to the meditation:
728th Week: Language of Separateness; Language of Interbeing
Early this morning, I turned on the radio and listened to a brief political report on WNYC, the local public radio station here in NYC. What I heard was a recording of a recent political rally where what I call “the language of separateness” characterized what was said by the speaker. In addition to the sadness I felt at hearing language that had a violent and aggressive tone, language that demonized the “other”, I also began to think about the difference between “the language of separateness” and “the language of interbeing’. Interbeing is a verb created by the Buddhist monk and teacher, Thich Nhat Hahn, and is now used beautifully and often by Charles Eisenstein, a speaker who focuses on social, economic, and ecological issues.
Later, I listened to an interview with Krista Tippett in her On Being broadcast where she talked with a woman who described how she engages people on the opposite side of the spectrum from where she lives politically and socially as a way to discover what was of key importance to both her and to the other person. Read More “728th Week: Language of Separateness; Language of Interbeing”