Practice Materials

Global Day of Practice Schedule:

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6:00 PDT / 9:00 EDT / 15:00 CET - Introduction & Meditation - 45 min.‍

7:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CET - Silent Meditation 1 - 45 min.‍

8:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET - Lectio Divina - 45 min.‍

9:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CET - Silent Meditation 2 - 45 min.‍

10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 19:00 CET - Tea Dialogue - 75 min.‍

11:20 PDT / 14:20 EDT / 20:20 CET - End Dialogue. 40 min.

You are welcome to join as much of the schedule as you like. If you would like to join a session, please be sure to join from the start of that session - this helps us to create a common field together. Thank you.

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Meditation Chants:

Opening Chant

Allow yourself to be utterly still
To relax
To be fully awake
Let everything be
Let everything go (Repeated three times)

Closing Chant

Where nothing has ever happened, meditation begins. In the eternal present moment, Consciousness awakes. When we let everything be as it is, over and over again, then what reveals itself, before thought, is the answer to all of life - the Creative Impulse - that boundless Love from which the whole universe unfolds.

The two Silent Meditations of the day are considered one cycle. Therefore Opening Chant is said at the beginning of Silent Meditation 1. And Closing Chant is said at the end of Silent Meditation 2.

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Lectio Divina:

Attention and Pure Silence by Simone Weil (1909-1943)

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart, and pity are not sufficient. Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Love is not consolation. It is light. There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light. Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego. We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us. Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Sin is not a distance; it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time, it is the way through. There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul. To give up our imaginary position as the centre, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what isreal and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.

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‍*As the Global Day of Practice is an international event, all chants and texts are read in english.

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