Practice, Path, Goal

Linked from Wholeness and Integration  and Stage 5. Early adulthood – The Soul Apprentice at the Wellspring

Practice

Focus on presence

Relax into presence

Mind training (Lojong)

Daily vows

Mantra crystals

Path

The sacred path of intimate relationship with my wife of 42  years

Individuation on the Bodhisattva path

The great way that opens after the local way

Goal

To dissolve the illusory separations between my heart-mind, other beings, and the world.

To contribute to the emergence of an Ecological Civilization.

Task (Plotkin’s Stage 7 – Early Elderhood)

Caring for the soul  of the more-than-human community

Koan

Shifting from: What is the shift of consciousness necessary to reverse the global eco-catastrophe?

To: What is the unique thread that life is asking you to weave in the Web of Meaning?

Currently: As a bodhisattva activist, participate in online communities dedicated to creating an ecological civilization.