Same as it (n)ever was.
There it was. There was still a part of me that was surreptitiously using meditation to bypass what I didn't want to face in myself; masking it with ‘improvement’ without ever accepting it, let alone loving it.
Being Human Takes Practice
The Consciousness Explorers Club is reinventing the community meditation experience. We explore together every Monday night in Toronto, record audio for those who can’t make it in person, and support CEC-inspired local groups around the world.
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Upcoming
Leap Day Urban Retreat
Location: Mosaic Yoga - 225 Sterling Rd,#23
Date: Saturday, February 29th, 1:30-5:30pm
InnerGalactic Fundraising Party
Location: Geary Avenue Warehouse Project, 209 Geary Avenue
Date: Thursday, April 9th, 7pm - forever
“A wise teacher, and a wise centre, needs to offer a whole range of skillful practices, because people come along at different stages of their inner development, with different temperaments, and with different sets of problems.” -Jack Kornfield
Featured Articles
Community Practice Activation Kit
We just finished version 2.0 of our CEC Community Practice Activation Kit available for free here. The idea of this kit is to inspire people around the world to start up their own community practice groups, in a way that’s unique to them and uniquely responsive to their local needs and context.
What is "Practice," Anyway?
Suddenly, we exist. Existing is complicated. We turn to practice. As we love to say at the CEC, being human takes practice. But what is a practice? The simplest definition of practice is some action – mental, emotional, physical, social – that you choose and repeat, so that it can become a habit. It is the deliberate cultivation of habits. Contemplative practices are practices that rehearse how you want to exist and relate to yourself and others.
Spiritual Terrains and Challenges
This primer is about the broadest possible classes of meditation and spiritual experience. It’s a work-in-progress. Every time I come back, I find myself cutting more details, for they seem like technique-specific effects, and not the human universals I once imagined. So it goes. In a couple years there may be nothing here at all.
Pluralism as Path
Almost any domain or activity in life can be approached as an intentional practice, and the people who specialize in these domains have learned important things about being human. How can we draw this wisdom out? Introducing the Consciousness Explorers Club's new pluralistic practice paradigm :)