October 16, 2025: Practice Circles (P2)
Meditation on Continuity of Loving Awareness & Bodhicitta Perception Practice (Facilitator A)
Structure Overview
Settling and Grounding
Emphasizes trust in the stability of the ground and the heart’s attunement to it.
Encourages love of stability and releasing into the earth.
Attunement and Felt Connection
Develops a somatic and emotional field of felt safety and receptivity.
Introduces the principle of feeling felt — key for trauma-informed meditation.
Lucid Listening
Sharpens moment-to-moment awareness through sound perception.
Establishes loving immediacy — lucid awareness with warmth.
Body Awareness
Tracks somatic phenomena as impermanent expressions of the stable ground.
Cultivates embodied mindfulness.
Emotional Awareness
Promotes equanimity toward feeling tones; invites awareness of impermanence.
Integration of Brightness
Expands attention to panoramic awareness — 360° field of perception.
Bodhichitta Perception ”
Directs insight into mind-only experience — perception as holographic projection.
Reintegration into Relational Field
Moves from individual realization into collective coherence and trust.
Ends with sealing breath and bow — grounding ritual closure.
Continuity of Loving Awareness & Bodhicitta Perception Practice (20 minutes)
0:00 – 2:00 | Settling and Grounding
Let’s begin by closing our eyes and allowing the rise and fall of attention to settle.
Rest into the soft intimacy of the heartspace.
Let the heart come into coherence with the stability of the ground beneath you.
Allow the heart to love that stability—
and continuously release the body into this trustworthy ground.
Moment by moment, feel the body relaxing downward,
as if gravity itself were an act of love.
Begin to recognize that this quality of stability is trustworthy.
Allow your heartmind to appreciate and love this trustworthiness.
2:00 – 4:00 | Entering the Field of Attunement
Now, sense the quality of attunement—
as if you were sitting in a warm ocean,
all around and within you.
Allow yourself to feel felt by this tender ocean—
a living, breathing field of warmth and care.
Continuously release into the stable trustworthiness of this tender ocean.
Feel the heartmind relaxing into the sense of being completely held.
4:00 – 7:00 | Listening with Loving Awareness
From this stability and attunement,
begin to listen closely to what is arising.
Develop a continuity of loving awareness
toward whatever you hear.
Moment by moment,
as each sound arises,
be immediately aware of it.
Allow the sound to be known by the heartmind—
and then allow it to dissolve,
dissolving into the stable field of attunement.
Moment by moment,
loving what is arising.
7:00 – 10:00 | Sensation and the Body
Now, bring your awareness to the sensations of the body.
Track whatever sensations arise, moment by moment.
Feeling and knowing—moment by moment.
Loving what is arising.
Attune even deeper, noticing all sensations.
Allow them to dissolve naturally—
arising and dissolving,
leaving behind this trustworthy, stable attunement.
Notice that all sensations arise and pass away,
leaving the still, stable presence of awareness itself.
10:00 – 12:00 | Emotional Awareness
Now tune into the emotional valence of your experience.
Notice, moment by moment,
how you are feeling.
Your awareness is awake and lucid—
simply noticing the emotional tone of each instant.
Allow every feeling to arise,
to be known,
and to melt away into the field of awareness.
Everything you experience is impermanent.
So keep resting in the field of your experience—
stable, open, aware.
Whatever arises—sound, sensation, or emotion—
allow it to be known by lucid awareness
and loved by the warm, attuned heartmind.
12:00 – 14:00 | Brightening Awareness
If you find your awareness dim or clouded—
perhaps caught in thought—
allow your attention to widen.
Listen through 360 degrees.
Sense all sensations in every direction—
wide open, wide awake.
Rest in wide-open awareness:
recognizing, moment by moment,
that whatever arises is dissolving,
is impermanent,
and yet arises within the same luminous space of awareness.
14:00 – 16:00 | Recognizing the Heartmind as the Field
Now, bring this brightness of mind
back to the stability of the ground beneath you.
Continuously rest into that stability.
Recognize that what seems to arise beneath you—
the ground itself—
is arising within the heartmind.
All sensations of the body
arise within the heartmind.
All sounds we hear
arise within the heartmind.
Gently open your eyes.
Correct for the old habit of seeing the world as “out there.”
Remind yourself:
everything you see, hear, and sense
is arising within the heartmind.
16:00 – 18:00 | Seeing as a Holographic Projection
Look around the room
as though what you are seeing
is being projected from your own heartmind—
like a hologram.
The sounds you hear,
the sights before you,
the sensations you feel—
all are luminous expressions
within the heartmind itself.
The stability of the ground,
the space we see,
the open silence—
all are qualities of the heartmind.
Seeing, hearing, sensing—
one continuous field of loving awareness:
open, awake, lucid, loving, and receptive.
18:00 – 20:00 | Closing and Integration
Now gently close your eyes again.
Rest into your heart.
Allow your heart to open—
its mycelial tendrils
reaching out to our small circle.
Feel the enchantment of shared presence,
the trust of being together in the circle.
Continuously rest in this field of loving awareness,
interconnected and coherent.
Take a full, deep breath in…
and a long, slow breath out.
Together, we seal this practice
with a gentle bow of gratitude—
to the ground beneath us,
to the circle around us,
and to the luminous heartmind
within which all arises.
Bow.