Ritual Sustains Spiritual Practice

About this episode

Susan Piver explores the importance of ritual in sustaining spiritual practice through personal experiences and teachings.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explore why spiritual practice becomes sustainable through ritual, not force. I share the story of a month-long meditation retreat where I discovered an unexpected sense of ease in both meditation and writing, and how that experience led me to begin teaching meditation and writing retreats myself. I also introduce the first principle from my new book, Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics: We engage in daily ritual. Through the Buddhist teaching ...

People in this episode

Host: Susan Piver

Topics covered

• spiritual practice
• ritual
• meditation
• writing retreats
• Buddhism

Keywords

• spiritual practice
• ritual
• meditation
• writing
• Buddhism
• ease
• retreat

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics

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