Dear Friends, Yesterday, we explored the air element as shared breath – moving through bodies, environments, and time. Today’s reflection is an invitation to stay with that sense of exchange and connection, noticing how it shows up in ordinary experience. To open the reflection, I would like to name a poem that feels especially aligned with this exploration:… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past several days, we have explored the air element as breath, motion, and continual change. Yesterday, we paused to cultivate equanimity – learning how to meet change with steadiness and care. Today, we return to the air element to explore what it can show us about not-self in a very practical way. With air,… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past days, we have been exploring the air element – movement, breath, and continual change. It feels important to acknowledge that this exploration is unfolding at a time when the world itself feels especially unsettled. Many of us are taking in heavy news: lives lost, ongoing wars, threats to democratic systems, and a sense… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we bring our exploration of the air element into direct practice. Over the past two days, we have been getting familiar with air as movement, motion, and pressure – how it animates breath, posture, and subtle shifts in the body. The practice today offers a way to sense this element directly. I invite you to… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday we began exploring the air element as movement, motion, and pressure. The reflection today is an invitation to notice how these qualities show up in your own experience. Air is most obvious through the breath, but it is not limited to breathing alone. Movement shows up in many ways: the subtle shifts of posture, the… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we begin exploring the air (or wind) element. After working with fire, we turn toward a subtler but equally present set of qualities: movement, motion, and pressure. The air element is what moves. It animates breath, circulation, digestion, and the countless small shifts that keep the body alive. In the early teachings, the air element… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we close our exploration of the fire element with a practice that emphasizes balance, settling, and integration. Over the past days, we have explored fire as warmth, energy, and transformation and noticing how these qualities arise according to conditions, rather than belonging to a fixed self. The reflection yesterday widened the lens, inviting a sense… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday, we explored the fire element through the lens of not-self – noticing how warmth, energy, and transformation arise according to conditions, without belonging to a fixed “me.” The reflection today invites us to widen that perspective, letting the sense of not mine, not me, not my self extend beyond the boundaries of the individual body.… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past several days, we have explored the fire element as warmth, energy, and transformation. Today, we look more closely at what fire can teach us about not-self – about how experience unfolds without belonging to a fixed “me.” In the teachings, reflecting on the elements sometimes includes a simple and radical reorientation:This is not… Read More »
Dear Friends, After several days exploring the fire element – warmth, energy, and transformation – we pause today to cultivate joy. In this context, joy is not about excitement, achievement, or trying to feel good. It is closer to a steady warmth – a gladness that can arise when energy is balanced and life is allowed to unfold… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday we began exploring the fire element as warmth, energy, and transformation. Today is an invitation to reflect on how these qualities show up in your own experience. Fire expresses itself differently from moment to moment, and part of getting to know this element is simply seeing how variable it can be. You might begin by… Read More »
Dear Friends, As we move into the second half of the month, we turn now to the fire element. After exploring water as flow, connection, and change, fire introduces a different set of qualities: warmth, temperature, energy, and transformation. Where water allows things to move and adapt, fire is what changes their state. It ripens, digests, and powers… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we bring our exploration of the water element into direct practice. Over the past several days, we have been invited to get familiar with water as flow, connection, and change, and as something we participate in rather than possess. Today’s practice offers a way to experience this directly, through embodied awareness. I invite you to… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past days, we have explored the water element as flow, connection, and responsiveness. Today’s reflection invites us to look more closely at how water can help loosen the sense of ownership we often bring to experience. In reflecting on the elements, the teachings sometimes point to a simple reorientation: recognizing that what we experience… Read More »
Dear Friends, As we continue with the water element, we are invited today to look more closely at how water responds, and what it can teach us about relating to experience. In the teachings, the elements are described not as things we own, but as natural properties that function according to conditions. Reflecting on the elements sometimes involves… Read More »
