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Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)

Aug 31, 2022


We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.

by: Wu Men Hui-k’ai
English version by Stephen Mitchell
Original Language Chinese

photo: Janet Merrick

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