Integrity of Presence Practice Group
Tayu Meditation Center staff
Tuesdays at 7:30 pm: February 7, 14, 21, 28

Presence refers to the stabilization of attention to experience just as it is, without judgment. Presence provides the authentic foundation for expansion and deepening into unified, non-dual consciousness. Presence simply is—it cannot be summoned via technique, or enticed into one's life through the cultivation of virtue. Nevertheless, as human beings we are responsible for the creation of conditions wherein Presence can develop and flourish. Acting with integrity is the key ingredient for creation of the proper conditions. The wholeness of integrity provides a way to remove obstacles to Presence, because Presence does not pick and choose—it is open to all impressions. Integrity is the precondition to Presence because acting with integrity fuses the disparate elements of ordinary, fragmented consciousness into unity. So the question arises: given the powerful distractions that buffet untrained attention back and forth in ordinary life, how do we create and consistently intensify intentions around which integrity can cohere? Join us for discussion of these questions, and for exercises that explore the practical metaphysics of intensifying Presence in every moment of existence.