Meditation: June 9th, 2025

The earth holds both the ecstasy of morning birdsong and the hollow ache of empty nests. In her embrace, we learn that joy and emptiness are not enemies but dance partners, instead.

Physical Setting & Preparation

Find a space where you can experience both fullness and emptiness simultaneously—perhaps a garden where blooms coexist with bare branches, or a room with both abundant light and deep shadows. Position yourself so you can feel contrast in your body: warm sunlight on one side, cool shadow on the other. Sit with your spine fluid and responsive, allowing your posture to shift between expansion and contraction as your breath naturally flows. Place one hand on your heart, one on your belly, feeling the rhythm of fullness and emptiness that governs all breath, all pulse, all life. Let your body become a vessel capable of holding both the intoxicating joy of summer's abundance and the profound hollowness that sometimes follows moments of peak experience.

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