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Certain mantra and meditation techniques bring feelings of power, energy, and opening.

But if you approach your practice as “work,” with accompanying striving and strain, you won’t discover the true blessings.

Spiritual ambition, striving, and strain can’t bring true stillness and peace.

To find this peace, instead of practicing with great fervor, balance the “ascent” and “descent” of your energies equal in duration and intensity. Through balance, you will more easily rest in stillness—and in this state, the powers of discernment, perception, and creative imagination arise to serve and benefit all beings.

Learn more in this week’s Nano Teaching video:

This Nano Teaching is an excerpt from a longer teaching, originally offered to the Wisdom Heart Community.

Questions to think about:

>> Do you struggle to find peace in your meditative practice?
>> Why spiritual ambition, striving, and strain won’t bring true stillness and peace.

The Wisdom Heart Community is for people who want to deepen their spiritual practice and live with wisdom.

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