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The Inner Room as Inner Sanctuary
Episode 16
In this episode, Brother Richard deepens the exploration of the inner room, describing it as an inner sanctuary — a place of safety, refuge and rest.…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Inner Room as Hibernaculum
Episode 15
In this meditation, I invite you to enter the inner room once again, this time through the image of the hibernaculum — a place of shelter, safety and…
5 months ago
Entering the Inner Room
Episode 14
In this meditation, I invite you to enter what the contemplative tradition calls the inner room — a simple image for turning inward and resting in st…
5 months ago
Discursive and Passive Meditation
Episode 13
In this meditation, I explore the difference between discursive and passive meditation, and reflect on a central contemplative question: where does t…
5 months ago
Why We Recover Regularly
Episode 12
In this meditation, I reflect on why returning regularly to the foundations of the practice is so important, revisiting the Deep Relaxation Form.
Rath…
5 months ago
Meditating with a word: The Versiculum (The Little Word)
Episode 11
In this meditation, I introduce the versiculum, often described as the “little word”, a simple and ancient mantra practice within the Christian conte…
5 months ago
Encountering the Thoughts (Part Two)
Episode 10
In this meditation, I continue our exploration of working with thoughts and how we can observe them without becoming caught in them.
Within the contem…
5 months, 1 week ago
Recovering the Deep Relaxation Form
Episode 9
In this episode, I return to the Deep Relaxation Form, the foundational practice that underpins all breath based meditation.
I reflect on why this for…
5 months, 1 week ago
Encountering the Thoughts
Episode 8
In this episode, I explore how thoughts and distractions are not obstacles to meditation, but an essential part of the practice.
Encountering our thou…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Body as the Home of the Breath
Episode 7
In this episode, I guide a body scan meditation, inviting you to rediscover the body as a good and trustworthy place of presence.
I reflect on the dee…
5 months, 1 week ago