The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity

To perform your daily activities in the spirit of contemplation is more than simply being mindful. It is elevating that task to the status of an art.

Other ways of accessing the field of contemplation through the natural world are gardening, handling natural materials or being with animals.

Anything that breaks the monotony of our ceaseless activity can be classified as a pause.

The secret of contemplation is that you are one hundred percent with yourself, inside yourself.

When you are honest with yourself and another, the relationship is clean.

To develop river-like generosity, sun-like affection and earth-like hospitality.

The first technique is called Pausing and it relates to the mind. The second technique is called Pivoting and it relates to the emotions. The third technique is called Merging and it relates to the physical body. These techniques are easy to learn

But this feeling we all seek cannot be brought about through any external set of ‘perfect’ conditions. It is directly linked to our breath patterns, so it can only be created from the inside. The

Here is an alternative way of looking at the mind. Imagine that your mind is a kind of radiant sheath that surrounds your physical body. It extends from every cell of your body and it permeates your body. Perhaps this ‘mental body’ extends far out into the room in which you are currently sitting. From this alternative view, you are living inside yo