The koan “What is the mind?” invites us to look beyond language, beyond thought, and beyond opinion. It leads us back to the origin of perception—the awareness that exists before thinking begins.
Through meditation and stillness, Zen helps us clear away the noise and return to this source.
#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #Koan #SpiritualPractice #Awakening #Presence https://youtube.com/shorts/307uO43zbas
Why sitting meditation alone isn’t enough. Turning every action into meditation helps you move through life with presence and clarity. When your mind is clear, your thoughts are no longer driven by past regrets or future desires—they arise in harmony with the present moment. #Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #MovingMeditation #DailyPractice #PresentMoment #Dharma #SpiritualPractice #SelfAwareness https://youtube.com/shorts/b1hAwEx6F58
The Key to Meditation: Just 1 Minute a Day Can Change Everything. The most important part of improving at anything—especially meditation—is consistency. Even just one minute a day of focused practice can sharpen your mind and transform your life. #Meditation #Mindfulness #DailyPractice #Zen #MentalHealth #Consistency #SpiritualPractice #Focus https://youtube.com/shorts/XTYUu1B3-_k
Moving meditation is the practice of focusing so deeply on your actions that your movements become your mantra. #MovingMeditation #FlowState #Zen #Mindfulness #Meditation #ConsciousLiving #Focus #SpiritualPractice #InnerPeacet #DailyMeditation #Dharma #Awareness https://youtube.com/shorts/Y3wfgZmkOYI
Wine for the Allfather as Odin's Day approaches.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #spiritualpractice #odin #writer #writing #heathen #altar
BDG news: UN Observes Inaugural World Meditation Day on 21 December with Record-Breaking Online Event
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/55vkeez8
#buddhism #spirituality #spiritualpractice #wellbeing#india #unitednations #usa #newyork #nyc #worldmeditationday #ravishankar #bhikkhusanghasena
Can #entrepreneurship be a #spiritualpractice?
While starting a #company may not make you #spiritual, entrepreneurship shares elements akin to a spiritual practice.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91244074/can-entrepreneurship-be-a-spiritual-practice
"Laraaji — ambient musician and onetime actor and comic — on laughter, surrender, and transcending the thinking mind."
Creativity as a spiritual practice: https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/376189/laraaji-music-creativity-spirituality
Notes Upon the Journey: May 29th 2024
5/29/2024 Wednesday Day of Mercury
10:15pm Hour of Mercury cusping towards The Hour of The Moon
Waning Gibbous Moon
Friends,
The Sun has set for the day. The Moon has hidden itself somewhere low in the seemingly cloudless night. The humidity is low and the night air is cooling from the heat of the day so even though it’s still quite warm if feels relatively cool. There is the slightest of breezes causing some of the treetops to sway slightly. The distant noise of traffic blending together and sounding rather like a river running in the distance, until it is punctuated by a horn or someone speeding and gunning the engine, or a plane or train somewhere in the darkness. The ground frogs are quiet and for now you can hear the faint almost electrical sounding humming/chirping of the free frogs somewhere in the distance.
A peaceful dare I say almost meditative calm settling over the world as Night deepens towards the Witching Hours. For myself the time between Midnight and 3am, each of them the classical folkloric Witching Hour depending upon whom you ask, are a time of magick, of power, of potential.
My recent spiritual rekindling has not happened entirely in a vacuum. The daily meditation and accompanying blogging have been a catalyst in this alchemical change going on within me, or perhaps the turning of a skeleton key sitting in an old lock as one begins to open a door? Whatever metaphor you like this renewed burst of writing and creativity, this reconnection with my deeper and higher selves has not happened all at once there has been a lot going into it. I was originally going to clumsily swing topics into some updates about my life based on my last brief check in....
(read the rest here)
https://chrysalis1witchesjourney.blog/2024/05/30/notes-upon-the-journey-may-29th-2024/
Life, work, and other endeavors... and a few creative blockages had taken me away from writing for a while but I am back with a new ongoing series of meditative misadventures!
It started as a spur of the moment experiment and has become a series and a daily practice and what feels like a strong rekindling of a lot of parts of myself.
I am practicing daily meditation and daily blogging... the blogging focused around the experience but with some other observations thrown in. It has definitely been a reawakening of my enjoyment and skills around writing and I am interested to see where this leads!
#Meditation #Blogging #Witch #Pagan #SpiritualPractice #Writing
https://chrysalis1witchesjourney.blog/2024/05/29/5701/
In these pages you'll find the pantheon, rituals, symbols and practices of Ariadne's Tribe, an inclusive Minoan spiritual tradition.
With a pantheon headed by a triplicity of mother goddesses who embody the three sacred realms of land, sky, and sea, Minoan spirituality calls us to remember a time when women were valued as equals to men, when the Great Mothers took care of *all* their children (all means *all*), and when the sacred touched every person every day of their lives.
Minoan spirituality is so relevant to our times, when we’re doing our best to move forward and away from inequality and oppression.
More details on my website (link in bio).
Who needs a little summer spiritual practice? Next Tuesday, your house (on Zoom), a gentle breathwork group.
This month I'm focusing on practices that help keep us going together. I'll be sharing a bit about the interfaith order I'm a member of, our flame tending practice, and we'll do a little "flame tending" breathwork.
This is a super accessible practice, and a lovely way to spend an hour. Hope to see you! #spiritualpractice
Back with Robin Wall Kimmerer, this time on what a gift economy might look like and how we learn from serviceberries and the creatures they are in relationship with. (Also her voice is so soothing). https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/ #spiritualpracticedaily #spiritualpractice #spiritualdirection #spiritualdirectionandsoulcare #soulcare #spiritualgrowth
Conversation starter! For me listening and connecting to the land around me, caring for a garden, listening prayer, and breathwork are some of my most important spiritual practices, what are yours and how have they changed over the years? #spiritualpractice #spiritualdirection #soulcare #spiritualgrowth
Have you ever modified a recipe to fit your tastes? What about your spiritual practices to fit you life? You can, and maybe you should but many of us need permission to change things that might seem like ancient prescriptions or sacred traditions... More @ https://josephinerobertson.com/make-your-spiritual-practice-your-own/ #spiritualpracticedaily #spiritualpractice #spiritualdirection #spiritualdirectionandsoulcare #soulcare #spiritualgrowth
Does anyone know if the CryptoNaturalist of Twitter is over here?
My newsletter today was kicked off by a lovely little poem he wrote about hope and hopelessness.
An excerpt:
"Hope is hard y'all. Because hope demands something of us. It is so, so much safer to sigh, shrug our shoulders, and let hopelessness drive the bus. That way lies certain doom, yes, but doom doesn't make any demands of us."
If you'd like to read the rest:
https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/327551/emails/84912969977169756
Ready to deepen your Jewish spiritual practice during the Omer period? Rabbi Jill Zimmerman's Journey Workbook offers daily reflections, questions, and inspiration to help you develop your soul and move beyond your current limits. Use it solo or with a study partner to make the most of this transformative season in Jewish tradition. 
#OmerWorkbook #DailyReflections #SpiritualPractice #RabbiJillZimmerman
https://ravjill.com/journey-2023/
For anyone a little over full of information, stress, expectations, worry, stress. An online (cameras never required) breathwork group (very beginner friendly if you've never tried) for release and letting go. Sliding scale. #Breathwork #SpiritualPractice #spirituality
https://josephinerobertson.com/event/full-moon-march-breathwork/
I keep running into folks in various spiritual communities who have been sold the lie that when they're in tune with the Divine life will be easy and ho boy is that a load of bullshit.
On spiritual bypassing, hogwash, and all that. #spirituality #SpiritualPractice #theology
https://josephinerobertson.com/spiritual-bypassing-the-lie-of-ease/
Who needs some inner FIRE? Imbolc/Candlemas is next week and I'm leading my favorite body/meditation practice: breathwork. Accessible to newcomers, on Zoom (so stay in your cozy space), cameras never need to be on. If you really want to meditate but sitting meditation makes you anxious or fidgety breathwork can be a great alternative. #breathwork #SpiritualPractice
