Mindful Biology 

seeds contemplative practice with life science

for soulful harvests

coming home to life:

• deepening mindfulness of the body & its biology

• finding compassion, forgiveness & gratitude for our bodies & our species

• improving mind-body & interpersonal relationships

• dancing as matter-energy moving through space-time

living spirituality:

• feeling Life within each moment of experience

• exploring the subtle shape & endless roots of inward aliveness

• releasing mental efforts to understand raw existence—embracing mystery

• honoring the sacredness of just this, just now

loving Life:

• admiring our immersion, origins & participation in the evolving biosphere

• connecting with soul powers of head, heart & belly: spacious knowing, embodied caring & earthly being

• experiencing mystical moments arising from the awe, love & wholeness inherent in Life

• cultivating faith & devotion inspired by Life's mystery & intelligence

transcending self:

• tracing lived moments as they arise from conditions, leads to consequences & recede

• separating how verbal brain regions interpret experience from the immediacy of bodily resonance with the living world

• letting resonance enlarge as interpreting rests & recedes

• knowing the conditioned, constructed self as an evolved tool rather than a permanent identity

• sensing the vast web of Life that creates, sustains & defines us

awakening non-duality:

• realizing how non-duality is rooted in neural & ecological facts

• seeing nature in all of Life, including in human creativity and destruction

• awakening to pure aliveness, pure liveliness, pure being

• dissolving in emptiness, the silent matrix of Life

growing integrity:

• clarifying moral choices, guided by the natural growth of Life, diversity & integration

• knowing civilization as a living form subject to limits, like every organism

• recognizing illness & encouraging healing on all scales, from cells to societies

• aging with joy, service & equanimity, the evolved potential of late adulthood