Contemplative Dyads
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Contemplative Dyads
- In a phrase: somatic meditation offers depth. Spending time in the body without agenda or expectation, listening to it, sensing it, letting go of the habit of experiencing it as “it”—there’s something in the experience that builds over time, it grounds you into a firmness of being.
from What is Somatic Meditation? by River Kenna
Stuart Evans added
- many of us are drawn to these novel kinds of Small Group experience because we long for new kinds of friendship that transcend the categories of relationship currently on offer to us. We’re enticed and intrigued by the notion of a close group of people that are keen and eager to collectively experiment with:-Going psychologically deeper than the bo... See more
from Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging by Joe Lightfoot
sari and added
- There’s something weird I increasingly encounter on the contemplative path. Which is: if you don’t accidentally fry your brain with meditation, at a certain point, the mind starts to guide you somewhere . The contemplative path reveals itself. And it seems like everyone’s path eventually goes to a similar place, although the trips are different. My... See more
from Review: Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery by Sasha Chapin
Stuart Evans and added
- I felt like a scientist, traipsing off to my cabin each morning to lie on my spare bed for 45-60-minute “sits,” walk around the grounds, then record my observations in a notebook, until it was time for dinner. In the evenings, we logged our experiences using presupplied Chromebooks. I had a daily “interview,” a one-on-one conversation with a Jhourn... See more
from Manufacturing Bliss
Phil Nguyen added
I want to treat my meditations more like this, as experiments with feedback
For me, most simply, contemplative spirituality is a fidelity to beholding the divine in all things. In the field, on the walk home, sitting under the oak tree that hugs my house. A sacred attention.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna and added
intimacy is expressed as strong inter-member empathy and the elusive condition of trust.
from A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu… by Steph Alinsug
Keely Adler added
- effort made by the meditator to understand right nature of psycho-physical phenomena taking place in his/her own body (Sayadaw, n.d: 138). The insight meditation appears to be a kind of detector of one’s nature that “shows us who and what we are, and what we can become.
from Just a moment... by researchgate
Gaye Soykok added
At that same yoga retreat, we stood and faced each other in pairs, really looking at each other from a close distance. We were told to simply BE with the other person, maintaining eye contact, with no social gestures like laughing, smiling, or winking to put ourselves at ease. Grown women and men cried. Really and truly sobbed. When we were finishe
... See morefrom The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Brené Brown