All tagged Silent Stay Retreat
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
Most people are taught when sitting in meditation to watch their thoughts, feelings, everything which comes into awareness and let it go. Focus on your breath. Simply watch what arises and let it go. Focus on your breath…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
We want to unplug. We want a break from all the noise and confusion in life. We want to take off and have nothing to do, no one to listen to, no email or texts to respond to. We just want to be free. So we sign up for a silent retreat…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
The heart has many faces, many moods. But there is one heart that is time-tested and true. It is the monastic heart and it is in each of us. The monastic heart is not hard or frozen, separated from the world by stone walls of old fashion rules and needless obedience...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
The sky of silence takes us to the stars and planets within us and beyond. Life is humbled, reflected, expanded, celebrated. In these moments I am beyond me and mine. “I” no longer occupies so much time and space...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
In silence we can hear our own thoughts. Perhaps more beautiful we can hear the world without the crowded stream of our thoughts. Visiting silence can be an adventure, a pilgrimage, a life changing journey into peace and quiet...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
The fearful world in which we live, digs subtly and not so subtly, into our otherwise pure being. Meditation is the great restorer of expansive, trusting innocence as we bring our attention to and practice receiving the pure center of our heart...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
Everyday there are the moments that can be described only as life’s grace. It is the light in our partner’s eyes, the warm smile of a total stranger, the dancing clouds in a busy day. Every moment of beauty is a moment of grace...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
The word is out. We read about it in best-selling books and see it in movies and on YouTube. Famous people and many ordinary folks are coming forward with a similar tale. They are each talking about very personal experience of encounter, an encounter with another world, an encounter with something we could only call Heaven...
