Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@pauljpastor @deanober 1/ A plethora of currents deliberately shape inner practices in experiential syntheses concordantly balancing spiritual bearings. Sufi 'wazifa', typically used in dyadic complements attuned to in-breath and out-breath, come immediately to mind, but there are countless others.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Sept 2020

@RichardRohrOFM 2/ Western culture and spirituality are notably poor in breath practices which figure prominently, if not centrally, in the spiritual toolsets of Vedic, Buddhist, Daoist and Sufi practice forms, for example.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CenteringPrayer Dig the relative accessibility of this classic 'long form.' Syllables on the heartbeat? A grammar complemented by the enrichment of, say, 'short-form' practices using the breath as a furrowing for particularized fine-tuning; consciousness as a dig; the treasure buried in a field.Quoted by@CenteringPrayer Dig the relative accessibility of this classic 'long form.' Syllables on the heartbeat? A grammar complemented by the enrichment of, say, 'short-form' practices using the breath as a furrowing for particularized fine-tuning; consciousness as a dig; the treasure buried in a field.