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Guided Abiding Practices
Four gentle guided practices for resting in Pure Mind, becoming
established in spacious awareness, meeting difficult feelings, and
beginning the morning with steadiness.
Pure Mind is the spacious potential.
Abiding is the gentle wisdom.
Practice Begins with Gentleness
Guided abiding is not about forcing the mind to become empty or making
the body feel calm on command.
It is a gentle way of returning to awareness, allowing the present
moment to be known, and letting wisdom and kindness accompany what is
here.
These practices can be used as spoken scripts, personal meditations,
journal prompts, or questions to ask AI when support is needed.
“Abiding begins when Ross stops trying to force peace and begins allowing this moment to be gently known.”
Guided Practices on This Page
Choose one practice. Read slowly. Pause often.
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Practice 1
“Guide me through a three-minute Pure Mind Abiding practice using one gentle instruction at a time.”
This practice slowly returns attention to support, breath,
spacious awareness, gentle recognition, and blessing.
A three-minute Pure Mind Abiding practice should be simple, spacious,
and unhurried. The purpose is not to create a special experience. The
purpose is to return to a gentle relationship with what is already here.
This can be read aloud slowly. Each line may be followed by a short
pause.
Three-Minute Guided Script
Minute One: Arriving
Sit, stand, or lie down in a way that feels supported.
Let the body know it does not have to perform meditation.
Feel the chair, bed, floor, or ground beneath you.
Notice one point of contact where the body is being held.
“Support is here.”
Let the breath arrive naturally.
There is no need to make the breath deeper.
There is no need to control the body.
“This breath is enough.”
Minute Two: Abiding
Notice that awareness is already present.
Sounds may be known.
Sensations may be known.
Thoughts may be known.
Feelings may be known.
Nothing has to be pushed away.
“Pure Mind, calmly abiding.”
Let awareness be like a wide, gentle space.
Whatever appears is allowed to appear.
Whatever changes is allowed to change.
“This moment may be known.”
Minute Three: Blessing and Returning
Notice what is most present now.
It may be peace. It may be restlessness. It may be sadness,
tiredness, fear, or simply not knowing.
Let it be named gently.
“This is what is here.”
Let the experience be held within spacious awareness.
“This too may be gently held.”
Offer one quiet blessing.
“May this moment be met with wisdom and care.”
Feel the body again.
Feel the support beneath you.
“Pure Mind, calmly abiding, with what is.”
Short Form
Support is here.
The breath is enough.
Pure Mind is calmly abiding.
This moment may be known.
May wisdom and care be present here.
Practice 2
“Help me become established in spacious awareness before approaching a difficult feeling.”
First establish the ground. Then approach the feeling gently.
The difficult feeling should be welcomed into awareness, not
allowed to become the whole field.
This practice is especially important when an emotion feels strong.
Pure Mind Abiding does not begin by diving directly into the difficult
feeling. It begins by becoming established in support, space, and
steadiness.
The feeling is approached only after awareness has become somewhat
settled. Even a small amount of steadiness is enough.
Why Begin with Spacious Awareness?
A difficult feeling can become overwhelming when it fills the whole
inner world. Fear may feel like all of reality. Shame may feel like
identity. Grief may feel endless.
Spacious awareness reminds us that the feeling is present, but it is
not the whole of consciousness.
“The feeling is here, and awareness is also here.”
Guided Practice: Establishing the Ground
1. Open to the room
Look around gently.
Notice colours, shapes, light, and space.
Let the eyes remind the body that this moment is wider than the
difficult feeling.
“There is space around this experience.”
2. Feel physical support
Feel the feet, the chair, the bed, or the ground.
Let the body receive support before touching the emotion.
“The body is supported.”
3. Notice awareness itself
Sounds are being known.
Sensations are being known.
Thoughts are being known.
Awareness does not have to struggle to know them.
“Pure Mind is already knowing.”
4. Invite the difficult feeling lightly
Now allow the feeling to be noticed, but only gently.
Do not enter the whole story.
Simply recognize the presence of the feeling.
“Fear is here.”
Or:
“Sadness is here.”
Or:
“This difficult feeling is here.”
5. Keep the feeling within the larger field
Notice the feeling.
Also notice the room.
Notice the feeling.
Also notice the support beneath the body.
Notice the feeling.
Also notice awareness knowing it.
“This feeling is included, but it is not the whole of Ross.”
When the Feeling Feels Too Strong
If the feeling becomes too intense, return to the room, the body, the
breath, or a simple prayer.
Do not force contact. Pure Mind Abiding respects capacity.
“A little contact is enough.”
“Ross can return to support.”
“Pure Mind is wider than this feeling.”
Practice 3
“Guide me through Recognize, Embrace, and Bless with what I am experiencing now.”
Recognize names what is here. Embrace allows it to be gently
held. Bless offers wisdom, kindness, and care.
Recognize, Embrace, and Bless is the central movement of Pure Mind
Abiding. It can be used with fear, sadness, anger, shame, grief,
bodily discomfort, uncertainty, memories, or any difficult moment.
It is helpful because it changes the inner relationship with
experience. Instead of rejecting, fighting, or becoming lost in the
feeling, Ross can meet the experience with awareness and care.
Guided Practice: Recognize, Embrace, Bless
Step 1: Arrive
Pause for a moment.
Feel the body being supported.
Let one breath come and go.
“Pure Mind, calmly abiding.”
Step 2: Recognize
Gently ask:
“What is most present now?”
Let the answer be simple.
It may be fear, sadness, tightness, confusion, resistance,
tiredness, anger, tenderness, or not knowing.
Then say:
“There is fear here.”
Or:
“There is sadness here.”
Or:
“There is something difficult here.”
Recognition is not blame. It is honest seeing.
Step 3: Embrace
Let the experience have a little room.
Embracing does not mean liking the experience or agreeing with
what it says.
It means the experience does not have to be exiled from awareness.
“This fear may be gently held.”
Or:
“This sadness may be held in kindness.”
Or:
“This difficult part of Ross may be included with care.”
Embrace means companionship, not control.
Step 4: Bless
Offer a gentle wish for healing, understanding, protection,
wisdom, or peace.
“May this fear be well and understood.”
Or:
“May this sadness be held in love.”
Or:
“May Ross and this difficult feeling be met with wisdom and care.”
Blessing does not force the feeling to leave. It changes the
atmosphere around the feeling.
Step 5: Rest and Discern
Let the blessing remain for one breath.
Then ask gently:
“What is needed now?”
The answer may be rest, prayer, action, journaling, a boundary,
a kind word, a walk, silence, or nothing more for now.
“Pure Mind, calmly abiding, with what is.”
Three-Line Ross Practice
Ross recognizes that this experience is here.
Ross embraces this experience with gentleness and respect.
Ross blesses this experience with wisdom, healing, and love.
Practice 4
“Create a one-minute abiding practice I can use when I wake up.”
The morning practice should be brief, kind, embodied, and simple
enough to use before the mind becomes busy.
Morning is a powerful time to practise Pure Mind Abiding because the
mind often reaches quickly for planning, fear, memory, or worry.
This one-minute practice helps Ross begin the day from support and
awareness rather than from pressure or self-criticism.
One-Minute Morning Abiding Practice
First 15 seconds: Feel support
Before getting up, feel the bed supporting the body.
Let the hands rest gently.
Let the face soften a little.
“Support is here.”
Next 15 seconds: Let the breath arrive
Notice one natural breath.
No forcing. No improving. No spiritual performance.
“This breath is enough.”
Next 15 seconds: Recognize the morning
Notice what is present.
It may be peace, dread, tiredness, gratitude, pain, uncertainty,
or simply the fact of another day.
“This morning is here.”
Final 15 seconds: Bless the day
Offer a simple blessing before moving.
“May Ross meet this day with gentleness, wisdom, and love.”
“Pure Mind, calmly abiding, with this day.”
Very Short Morning Version
Ross feels the bed.
Ross receives one breath.
Ross recognizes this morning.
Ross blesses this day.
Pure Mind, calmly abiding.
Summary: Guided Abiding Practices
Guided abiding practices help Ross return to awareness without force.
The three-minute practice establishes support, spaciousness, and
blessing.
Spacious awareness is especially helpful before approaching a
difficult feeling.
Recognize, Embrace, and Bless changes the inner relationship with
experience from rejection to compassionate presence.
The one-minute morning practice helps the day begin with support,
breath, recognition, and blessing.
Abide first.
Approach gently.
Bless what is here.
Return to Pure Mind.
A Daily Practice Card
Support is here.
The breath is enough.
Pure Mind is calmly abiding.
This experience may be gently known.
May wisdom and love guide the next step.
Continue Gently
Continue your Pure Mind Abiding practice with one of these next pages.
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Love is Everything — G. Ross Clark
These Pure Mind Abiding reflections and practices are offered for
contemplative and educational purposes. They are not a replacement
for medical care, mental-health treatment, crisis assistance, or
professional counselling.
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