Meditations for the Season for Nonviolence

Grounding

“The Elephant Story” by Ekenath Easwaran demonstrates, that no matter what our tradition may be, meditation is a powerful spiritual practice that can release the divinity with us and enable us to see our true self.

Meditation Basics

New to meditation, beginning a practice, or trying to establish a consistent practice?

Three Guided Meditation Practices

The Spiritual Practice team at Unity of Fairfax has recorded three guided meditations to support your engagement in this beautiful season of love, compassion, and action. Enjoy.

Loving Kindness

  • Loving Kindness is a heart-opening practice that builds our capacity for compassion, allowing us to love ourselves and all beings in the world.

Learn more about Loving kindness meditation, or “metta” as it is called in Pali, by following this link to an article from the Metta Institute.

Equanimity

  • Equanimity is the ability to maintain a sense of calm and composure even during difficult and challenging times. 

In the context of meditation, cultivating equanimity allows us to be with difficulty without being reactive to it. If we are able to be a “strong mountain” the midst one of life’s blizzards, we can flourish during difficult times and help those also facing adversity.

This meditation on equanimity comes from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mountain Meditation found in Wherever You Are There You Are. The script we’ve used has been adapted from Palouse Mindfulness which is also from Kabat-Zinn’s work.

Peace

  • Peace is an aspect of our inner landscape that, once developed, has a positive influence on all aspect of our lives as well as those around us.

In this guided meditation, we use the technique of passage meditation, developed by Eknath Easwaran, to use the words of the Prayer of St. Francis as our meditation anchor.

Learn more about passage meditation in Conquest of Mind by Eknath Easwaran, or by visiting the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.

For More Information

If you’d like more information about spiritual practices at Unity of Fairfax, contact the Spiritual Practice team at spiritualpractice@unityoffairfax.org.

 

Last updated on January 27, 2017
(removed obselete links on June 3, 2020)