Mindful Biology 

seeds contemplative practice with life science

for soulful harvests:

Note: in coming months I plan to write short explanations of each of these "harvests". As I complete them, the list below transition to links.

coming home to life:

• deepening mindfulness of the body & its biology

• improving mind-body & interpersonal connections

• embracing our bodies & our species

• living as matter-energy & space-time

• befriending mortality as part of Life

living spirituality:

• cultivating faith in Life

• trusting biology while softening mental effort

• feeling sacredness in every living moment

• exploring the subtle shape & endless roots of inward aliveness

• honoring the mystery of Life

loving Life:

• celebrating the biosphere

• embodying awe, love & wholeness

• living by spacious knowing, embodied compassion & earthly being

• nurturing personal connections with Life

• blessing the source of all Life

transcending self:

• knowing the conditioned self as tool, not identity

• recognizing the repeating, fractal, karmic themes of Life

• empowering whole-body intuition

• connecting with Life's web

• trusting the steadiness of being

realizing non-duality:

• sensing nature in all of Life, including human civilization

• empathizing with consciousness in other Life forms

• fiinding non dual awareness in neural & ecological facts

• awakening pure aliveness

• dissolving in emptiness, the silent matrix of Life

growing integrity:

• knowing civilization as a living form subject to limits

• learning the ways of nature as lessons in balance

• clarifying moral choices, guided by Life

• recognizing illness & encouraging healing on all scales

• aging in joy, service & equanimity