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The way of being at ease with oneself

Living Presence

A Friend on the Path

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A contemplative space for shared silence, living dialogue, and wisdom across traditions.

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Watch & Listen

Presence isn’t something we create. It’s a relationship we allow.

A growing media library of contemplative films, conversations, and teachings exploring the living ground of reality.

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Practice & Gather

We practice returning to presence until we are living in Presence.

We come to rest together, letting the mind settle and striving fall away.

There is a depth that becomes more accessible in shared stillness.

Over time, we are reshaped from within - becoming more real, more true.

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Practice & Gather

  • Group silent meditation

    Weekly Group Sit

    A weekly Zoom gathering for contemplative silence and mystical dialogue

  • Tea ceremony meditation

    Tea Ceremony

    Entering shared silence and presence together through the Way of Tea

  • Freeform movement practice

    Stillness + Movement

    A lightly guided exploration of intuitive movement emerging from stillness

  • Pouring tea chado

    Retreats

    Immersive gatherings for deepening on the path through contemplative silence, shared inquiry, and embodied practice

Relational Work

Walking together on the Path.

One-on-one sessions for spiritual direction, counseling, and personal support.

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Your support helps sustain us and others walking this path.

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  • 8 Points of Agreement

    In 1980, a group of contemplatives across 8 religious traditions gathered together in the spirit of interfaith dialogue.

    Here are their 8 points of agreement:

  • 1. The world religions bear witness to the experience of Ultimate Reality, to which they give various names.

  • 2. Ultimate Reality cannot be limited by any name or concept.

  • 3. Ultimate Reality is the ground of infinite potentiality and actualization.

  • 4. Faith is the opening, accepting, and responding to Ultimate Reality. Faith in this sense precedes every belief system.

  • 5. The potential for human wholeness — or, in other frames of reference, enlightenment, salvation, transcendence, transformation, blessedness — is present in every human being.

  • 6. Ultimate Reality may be experienced not only through religious practices, but also through nature, art, human relationships, and service to others.

  • 7. As long as the human condition is experienced as separate from Ultimate Reality, it is subject to ignorance and illusion, weakness and suffering.

  • 8. Disciplined practice is essential to the spiritual life; yet spiritual attainment is not the result of one’s own efforts, but the result of the experience of oneness with Ultimate Reality.

  • Additional Points of Agreement

    9. It is essential to extend our formal practice of awareness into all aspects of our life.

    10. Humility, gratitude, and a sense of humor are indispensable in the spiritual life.

    11. Prayer is communion with Ultimate Reality, whether it is regarded as personal, impersonal, or beyond them both.