Global Day of Practice

TO JOIN A PRACTICE DAY SIMPLY ENTER THE PRACTICE SANCTUARY A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE EVENT. YOU CAN FIND THE SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY AT THE LINK BELOW.

Our Global Day of Practice is a free, day-long gathering dedicated to strengthening our spiritual resilience — our capacity to respond to the world’s challenges from a place of wholeness and trust in life.

Through meditation, contemplation, and dialogue, we reconnect with the deep confidence that life itself is inherently good. Together, we cultivate the inner stillness and collective strength needed to meet fragmentation with presence and compassion.

During the day, we engage in practices such as:

• Meditation: Resting in the openness of being.
• Lectio Divina: Reading sacred or inspiring texts with attuned awareness.
• Interbeing Tea Dialogues: Deep conversation held in a field of shared presence.

You will join a global community of companions discovering strength in unity — renewing the inner ground from which meaningful action can arise.

Schedule and Chants here.

You can download practice materials here.

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Lectio Divina

Emptiness - Iain McGilchrist

There are certain things, that you can only realise if you stop acting, thinking and filling up the space with what you think is important. And instead cultivate silence, openness, awareness. An awareness that is not passive. It is a non-doing in which you are not filling the space with your thoughts – but listening. It's a listening that opens, stilling all the talkative voices of the mind so that something else that you hadn't anticipated has a chance – for once – to come and meet you. And it's only in that coming to meet you through the openness of your attention, that something else begins to grow between us. That is the creative process we're all capable of. But we hardly ever in the modern world give it a chance.

Less can be more and unknowing can be more than knowing. There can be something rich in non-doing as the Buddhists say. And this is not the same as idleness and ignorance. Ignorance is what you have before you have knowledge and unknowing is what you have after knowledge - if you’re lucky. It is the beginning of wisdom.

Emptying yourself is the concept in Buddhism of Śūnyatā which means Emptiness. In English emptiness sounds negative. But I believe that negation is actually very creative. Emptying yourself is like creating a space, a fertile space, best envisioned as the womb. As a place in which new life can grow. And if it’s full, no new life can grow. We need to be like that. We need to become the space where new life can grow. And it comes to us through listening, through being patient and being attentive. What more can I say?