Mindful Biology 

seeds contemplative practice with life science

for soulful harvests:

Note: in coming months I plan to explain each of these "harvests". As essays are completed, the list below will transition to links.

coming home to life:

• deepening mindfulness of the body & its biology

• improving mind-body & interpersonal connections

• embracing our bodies & our species

• befriending mortality

• relaxing into the stuff of Life

living spirituality:

• trusting the body while softening mental effort

• cultivating faith in Life

• exploring the shape & roots of inward aliveness

• noticing sacredness in every living moment

• honoring the mystery of Life

worshiping life:

• celebrating the biosphere

• opening to awe, love & wholeness

• centering in spacious knowing, embodied compassion & earthly being

• nurturing personal relationships with Life

• blessing the source of Life

growing integrity:

• knowing civilization as part of the biosphere, not its master

• recognizing illness & encouraging healing on all scales

• learning the ways of nature to restore balance

• clarifying moral choices, guided by Life

• aging in joy, service & equanimity

transcending self:

• knowing ego as tool, not identity

• recognizing the repeating, fractal, karmic themes of Life

• connecting with Life's web

• empowering bodily wisdom

• grounding in being

realizing non-duality:

• sensing nature in all Life, including human civilization

• empathizing with consciousness in other Life forms

• dissolving duality with neural & ecological facts

• awakening pure aliveness

• abiding in emptiness, the silent matrix of Life