Daily Reflection Sit

“Learn to hold the body and heart with support and care, and the mind will also learn how to hold itself in caring awareness.”

Setting up our practice up as if for the very first time. Body and breath, heart and mind; we orient toward well-being.

We know what it feels like with a loved one, or in nature; let’s import that feeling internally.

If the foundation is weak, the structure is vulnerable. Setting up the body for practice and tethering to the here and now.

"Inside the chaos, build a temple of love”… Rune Lazuli Can you still build a welcoming “home” in the midst of chaos?

We say we want the truth, but we want to feel more deeply at home.

Daily practice loosens and releases some of the rougher energy and the grosser tensions.

Nature can teach us how to hold ourselves and help us to create our own holding environment. We can carry the lessons of nature throughout our lives - not just outside.

We want to deepen and widen our capacity to feel more at home within ourselves and each other. We set up the conditions to support this in daily practice.

Steady yourself frequently by coming back into the holding environment. Notice when the holding environment needs some sprucing up. Refresh, rebuild, reconstitute that atmosphere of wise caring attention and then decide what to do next.

Benefactors or a beneficial presence can be a supportive part of our holding environment. The support of benefactors provides warmth and compassion to our practice.

Narrated by Jaye Moyer Animation & audio by Elizabeth Mehling

What motivates us to practice? Samvega - spiritual urgency - is a positive quality that can deepen our commitment to practice as we see our world on fire and seek another way. Pasada - confidence in the path of meditation - is a balancing quality to samvega that brings calm and protects against pessimism.

Invite a sense of calm, ease, friendliness & engaged interest.