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Dear Community,
I’ve been trying to find a way to cultivate more community around my
meditation practice and have decided to create a meditation/spiritual
community using Twitter. This is my commitment: each weekday morning
at 7:30 AM, PST, I will tweet my intention for the day and then sit
for 20 minutes. I invite you to join me for part or all of that.
Participation is pretty scalable to accommodate a range of interests,
capacity and time zones:
* You can tweet and then sit with me, at the same time, 7:30 AM, PST
* You can just tweet your intention for the day
• You can tweet your commitment to your own spiritual practice and
then tweet an update every day once you’ve completed your practice
My hope is that we can create a community based on intention and
spirit, framed loosely by technology. I don’t think it matters so much
when we actually meditate, or tweet, or what spiritual practice each
of us is engaged with. What I’m hoping to cultivate is a sense of
connection to other folks around the planet who are engaged in
spiritual practice, who take some time each day to set an intention
and connect with spirit. The structure I’m adding around it also helps
to keep me accountable for doing my practice, instead of just thinking
it would be a good idea to practice and then not practicing. ;-)
I am realizing that a huge part of my spiritual practice is about
connection and relationship with other humans. So, even while I am
meditating alone at home in Northern California, I am also staying
present with other humans around the world who are practicing. The
technology part, well, that’s just another way to make that presence
more concrete. It’s also an opportunity to contribute to one another
by practicing holding not just our own, but each others' intentions.
Why Twitter? Every day I am faced with the reality that I’ve allowed
technology to replace some important brain functions, like, for
example, memory. And I’m not actually sure how I navigated the world
before google. (Truth be told, I woke up this morning and googled “how
to let go of resentment” on my iPhone before I even got out of bed.)
But the idea of a Twitter-based spiritual community is an intentional
use of technology to connect with other people, rather than an
unconscious use of technology that is ultimately isolating. I like
that Twitter gets right to the point and doesn’t fill my inbox with an
overload of information, and also that I don’t have to be anywhere
near my computer to check in.
I hope you will consider joining me. Here is the pertinent info:
Twitter ID: murbrum
Conversation: #meditweet
Start date: Friday, February 5, 2010
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