Meditation

The Master leads by emptying people’s minds

and strengthening their cores.

Lao Tzu

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Part One: Clearing

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Come into the present by leaving concerns for past and future.

Fall still and let go all physical tension.

Connect mind with the senses.

Feel the weight of the body on the chair,

the play of air on the face and hands.

Include everything:

breath, body, smell, taste, sight, touch, sound.

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OM MANI PADME HUM

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ANATTA ANICCA ABHAYA

KARUNA KARUNA KARUNA

DOSA NIRODHA KARUNA

TANHA NIRODHA KARUNA

DUKKHA NIRODHA KARUNA

UPPEKHA UPPEKHA UPPEKHA

KARUNA MUDITA METTA

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Part Two: Communion

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ZEN

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PARASHIVA SHIVA SHAKTI

PARASHIVA SHIVA SHAKTI

PARASHIVA SHIVA SHAKTI

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AMUN RA ATUM KA BA GAIA JAH

KETER HOKHMAH BINAH DA’AT CHESED GEVURAH YESOD

SATTWA SANCTUS KARMA BHAKTI JNANA RAJA MAITRI

MYSTIC SHAMAN WARRIOR MONK PHILOSOPHER KING FRIEND

CLARITY KINDNESS BRAVERY GENEROSITY HONESTY DIGNITY COMPASSION

HUMILITY CHASTITY PRUDENCE TEMPERANCE PATIENCE DILIGENCE GRATITUDE

PEACE LOVE GOODNESS BEAUTY TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS BLISS

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Part Three: Integration

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January : Being Oneself by The School of Meditation

February : A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

March : The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

April : The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto

May : Mysticism by F.C. Happold

June : Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

July : The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard

August : The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

September : The Love of God by Evelyn Underhill

October : The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart

November : The Trial of the Man who Said he was God by D.E. Harding

December : Selected Writings of William Law

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Daily Reading

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Morning : The Holy Bible (King James Version)

Evening : The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis

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Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22: 1-2

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Forest Magician painting by Vladimir Kuchinskiy