How did your practice go today? - What went well? - What was difficult? If you haven't practiced yet, when are you going to meditate later today? What kind of technique are you going to use? How might this impact your life? Share below by just dropping a GIF for an intention, or you can do a short check-in. Also, if you have any questions about your practice today, feel free to drop it in the comment box.

We have three monks visiting us in Austin over the next month! This is an unprecedented frequency afaik You can find the times and venue here: https://www.vedantaaustin.org/ Swami Tyagananda - April 17-19 Swami Sarvadevananda - April 26-28 Swami Mahayogananda - May 8-9 They’re from the Ramakrishna order of monks and nuns. They all have a very strong spiritual presence and most of them have a strong nondual flavor. After every visit, I find myself in great joy for the next few days and my practice deepens noticeably.

Stabilize First: Why Concentration Comes Before Everything Most people try to go straight into insight, visualization, or more advanced practices. But their attention isn’t stable. So nothing really lands. — If you can’t stabilize your attention, everything else stays inconsistent. That’s the foundation. — A simple way to understand your practice: Center of gravity — where you are right now Trailing edge — what’s already stable Leading edge — what you’re growing into If you don’t know these, you’re guessing. If you do, you can actually train. — At the beginning, it’s fine to explore. Different teachers. Different methods. But at some point, you have to commit. Otherwise, you stay scattered. — Today we worked with a simple concentration practice: Sit upright Relax the body Feel the breath Stay with it Again and again. — I used the metaphor of training a wild elephant. Your mind doesn’t settle because you want it to. It settles because you train it. Gently. Consistently. Repeatedly. — If your meditation feels unstable, don’t add more. Go back to concentration. Stabilize first. Everything else builds on that. — Where are you right now in your practice?

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In this meditation, we use very compressed instructions to help you set up the view quickly and rest in the natural state. This is an advanced practice. Only use it if you feel emotionally and psychologically grounded. If your life feels unstable right now, this is probably not the right meditation for you. This practice is best used when you want to establish the view fast, then move into your day and see whether you can stabilize this non-dual perspective in real life. That’s the whole point — not the meditation itself, but how it shows up in your relationships, decisions, and actions. When we’re coming from non-duality, we’re coming from wisdom and compassion — saying the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time, with love. Brandon