In this guided meditation, the breath becomes a frame - a halo around whatever picture we slot into it - as we move through the third tetrad's four ways of looking at the mind. We'll settle into the stillness already underneath the mind's activity, the way silence sits beneath sound; let a basic gladness surface, an inward brightness already present rather than something we have to chase down; gather the mind into a felt sense of wholeness and integration; and finally practice the small, ordinary liberations already available to us - the fist opening, the self growing quieter, a way of looking that's already free.

The four boundless qualities off the cushion, as they meet the actual world. A motel chain's accidental bodhisattva vow, a bus station, the Lincoln Memorial steps, a border crossing, a hospice room, and the Buddha's final instruction with the Karajakāya Sutta's promise about how far love can carry a heart.

Guided Meditation opening to boundless unconditional quality of Metta, Compassion, Supportive Joy and Equanimity

Short Reflection on the '5th' Vipallasa & Guided Meditation including a poem by John Soos | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning