Practice

• The PracticeOne faculty, attention, trained in four stages — settling, looking, loosening, carrying — with a chair, a timer, and about ten minutes.
• SettlingHow to sit still for about ten minutes, find the breath, and leave it unmanaged: the first stage of the practice.
• LookingHow to hold attention on one thing until it changes, and how to look at wanting, anger, and fear directly.
• LooseningHow to find a grip in real time, look at it without forcing it, and test the practice's central claim for yourself.
• CarryingHow the practice leaves the chair and moves into an ordinary day, without a finish line waiting at the end of it.
• MendingWhat to do after making a wound, and why the mending finishes in the act itself, not in how the other person answers it.
• The Tending at the EndHow to sit with someone who is dying — presence kept with an open hand, nothing recited, nothing claimed, and the room kept theirs.
• The Daily FormThe default day, about ten minutes in two parts, a shape to lean on rather than a debt to service.
• The Weekly FormOnce a week, a longer sit and one deliberate act of tending, plus optional company and reading.
• Keeping CompanyHow wayfarers sit together — a leaderless evening, a reader role that confers nothing, and nothing counted, joined, or owed.
• At HomeKeeping the practice inside a shared house — around other people's mornings, around people who do not practice, with children in the rooms.