This essay examines the passage from attentional regulation to contemplative orientation and responsible participation. It distinguishes concentration, mindfulness, kindfulness, heartfulness, contemplation, and responsibility as changing functions within contemplative practice rather than as a rigid hierarchy of techniques. Through the images of the compass, the wheel, and the axis, the essay...
Meditation is often studied through the states it produces: attention, calm, emotional regulation, altered perception, or measurable physiological effects. These investigations are valuable, but they do not yet tell us whether a person has become more capable of discernment, responsibility, care, or truthful action. This essay proposes a movement from the study of meditative states to an...
This essay examines heartfulness as the living reconduction of consciousness to the hṛdaya, understood as the cognitive and ontological axis of contemplative life. It articulates the sādhana of the instant, formal meditative practice, mantra, and Dinacaryā as mutually implicated dimensions of a single movement in which recollection educates life and life, in turn, deepens contemplative...