Practice: Courage & Grace

If mindfulness begins with training our attention, what’s the recipe for its other components, courage and grace?

That’s courage, and then there’s the attitude I’m trying to do all of that with, which is grace. Which is maybe just another name for love. Which means here’s my recipe, for right now: sit, look, cringe, keep looking anyway, love, repeat.

Transcript

So finding your posture and also as you settle in, Finding that sense, If it's available to you, Of safety in this moment, Of physical safety in this moment. And sometimes it's helpful, I find it helpful to keep my eyes open for a moment or two and look in front of me. Physically do this, Look to the side of me, Look behind me, Look above, Look below. And just know that for the next seven minutes, There's safety right here, And then beginning to notice the breath, To bring the attention to the breath, And then to gently widen the lens, And just begin to notice what is arising and passing. And whatever is noticed is just what it is, And seeing if you can just stay with what is being noticed, And of course, It'll change. So not holding on to anything, Just noticing as things are arising and passing away, Emotions, Thoughts, Sensations. And whatever you're noticing as things arise, Yeah, Can you shine some love on that? Or if that's difficult, Shine some love on yourself for being able to see, Being willing to see.