{"id":971,"date":"2017-04-04T22:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/?p=971"},"modified":"2017-04-04T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:23:40","slug":"integrating-contemplative-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/integrating-contemplative-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating contemplative practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ESSENCE OF ALL PRACTICE: <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The intention to open to the presence and action of God\/The Dharmadatu\/Allah\/a well harmonized brain functioning intuitively beyond the small self  (ie surrender of the small self to a greater functioning).  As Krishna puts it at the end of the Gita, \u201cAbandoning all Dharmas (practices, rules, guidelines) surrender to Me, and let Me do the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINDFUL ATTENTION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mindfulness: Balancing narrow and wide focus attention (concentration, open awareness), zazen, tantra yoga practices of mindfulness and open, spacious awareness<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARTFUL ATTENTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loving kindness, Compassion, Forgiveness, gratitude, reverence, prayer, tantra yoga practices of  heartful awareness and surrender<\/p>\n<p><strong>REFLECTIVE INQUIRY:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Mindful CBT, science and non-duality, interspiritual meditation, creative visualization, sustainability<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREPARATION (using body and energy)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breathing, relaxation,  kundalini yoga, tantra yoga<\/p>\n<p><strong>KARMA YOGA: <\/strong> (bringing together the skills of surrender, mindful attention, heartful attention, reflective inquiry<\/p>\n<p>1.\tMindful and heartful attention in action: mindful eating, simple living, mindfulness at work, mindful leadership<br \/>\n2.\tSelfless service: Caregiving, Selfless service,<br \/>\n3.\tArt: Contemplative art, storytelling<br \/>\n4.\tScience: science and nonduality<br \/>\n5.\tRelationships: parenting, marriage, childbirth, coming of age<br \/>\n6.\tHealing: 12 step outreach, mindfulness in correctional institutions<br \/>\n7.\tEducation: Mindfulness in schools<br \/>\n8.\tThe body: aikido, tai chi, walking meditation<br \/>\n9.\tNature: environmental mindfulness and mysticism,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENCE OF ALL PRACTICE: The intention to open to the presence and action of God\/The Dharmadatu\/Allah\/a well harmonized brain functioning intuitively beyond the small self (ie surrender of the small self to a greater functioning). As Krishna puts it at the end of the Gita, \u201cAbandoning all Dharmas (practices, rules, guidelines) surrender to Me, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}