The Book

Month 1: Stillness

When the mind grows still, you discover that stillness itself is nourishing. Each moment of quiet awareness reminds you of the calm that exists beneath the surface of daily life.

The Practice #

Begin by finding a quiet place where the body can rest. Sit on a cushion or chair with your feet on the floor. Let your hands rest gently in your lap or on your knees. Keep the spine upright but not rigid. Let the posture settle. Let the breath move on its own.

Let your awareness sink into the body, not as an observer but within it. Sense the quiet interior: tissues, weight, warmth, the subtle movements of life. Silently say the word stillness, without trying to imagine or construct it. Simply rest as you settle into this quiet space.

The body, no longer feeling solid or defined, is open and spacious. Stillness does not need to be made. It is already here. Rest in it as a feather comes to rest on still air.

Twelve visual meditations where words, images, and sound merge in a field of presence. Each piece invites a direct encounter—not instruction, but presence itself.

Move through the work at your own pace, allowing each piece to reveal itself. The gaze itself becomes practice.

Month 1: Stillness

Month 1: Stillness

We begin our journey with stillness. Stillness isn’t something to find or create; it has been here all along, quietly waiting beneath everything that moves.

"When the mind grows still, you discover that stillness itself is nourishing. Each moment of quiet awareness reminds you of the calm that exists beneath the surface of daily life."

Practice: Silently say the word 'stillness' without trying to imagine or construct it. Simply rest as you settle into this quiet space.

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Unmasked Meditation: Twelve Weeks of Inner Freedom

Undistracted in the unbroken stream of mental happenings.
Unmasked Meditation is a 12-chapter illustrated book and digital edition, created to bring meditation, poetry and visual art into a single, living space of awareness. The digital edition is complete. With patron support, it will be transformed into a fine art print edition, a lasting companion for those who value the depth of awakening. Unmasked Meditation is a way of meeting life as it is. In a world layered with distractions and stories, it invites us to step beneath the surface and rest in what does not move. The practice rests on three simple portals: stillness, silence and spaciousness, opening into awareness and the ground of your being. From this ground, the impermanence of thoughts and emotions is recognized, arising and dissolving in simple, direct, self-liberating awareness. Over twelve weeks, each chapter explores a theme through meditation, poetry and illustration, peeling back layers of identity and concept. The journey is not about escape but about awakening to what has always been present, honest, unmasked, aware.
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Sample Chapter: Stillness

Beneath movement, stillness is. The body is always here. In joy or in sorrow, in ease or in difficulty, it is where we are. When nothing is added, it settles on its own. Not through effort, not through control. Stillness is not something the body enters. It is what remains when nothing extra is carried. Voices, movement and daily life continue as before, yet something no longer moves with them. Nor does stillness withdraw us from life. It is undefended presence, life fully felt without tightening around it. Nothing stands between ourselves and what is here. Beneath movement, beneath thought, beneath the weight of familiar things, stillness is. It does not come and go. It is where presence resides.
Stillness meditation

We begin our journey with stillness. Stillness isn’t something to find or create; it has been here all along, quietly waiting beneath everything that moves.

Like the ocean that lies beneath the waves that rise and fall, come and go, its depths are still. Waves are the emanations of this stillness. You can rest like that too. There is room for everything. Nothing has to be fixed, and nothing has to be held.

Like a mountain standing through wind and cloud and passing seasons, stillness is not separate from what moves around it. The mountain is unmoved by the wind. The wind passes. They meet without conflict, each simply as it is.

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