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Conscious Dynamics®
Materials for Personal Development

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Being Prayer
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Premier Publication:
Being Prayer-Transforming Consciousness: Good News of Buddhist Practice

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"How we see determines what we see, and Mary Rees will help you to see much better."
Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

"Mary...takes hard concepts like consciousness and mind and makes them accessible."
Rodney Smith, Insight Meditation Teacher

A primary theme in Being Prayer-Transforming Consciousness is that nothing is as substantial as it seems. We fuel a dynamic spiritual unfolding when we reach a realization of the insubstantiality of what we believe to be true, when we see that both our doubts and certainties need to be challenged.

Understanding insubstantialtiy does not mean that things do not exist at all. Instead it invites us to a looser perception, an awareness that we are each conditioned by our life experiences. This conditioning contributes to our uniqueness but also limits our view and colors all of our perceptions. We can learn to widen our perceptions and open to what is most real, to vitality, energy, enthusiasm, and joy.

Being Prayer is intended as a companion to be revisited again and again, to be read and practiced slowly digesting it in small bites at a time. With each reading different teachings will stand out based on life circumstances and developing understanding.


Practice Books (more info...)

 Practice Books are personal guides to help develop your own consciousness, integrating mindfulness and awareness into daily life, in your functional existence. They are also a record book of your journey you will want to refer to in later months or years. As your skill and wisdom unfold, you may also wish to work with them again from a more enlightened perspective, gleaning continually greater appreciation for the joy of a committed spiritual practice.

Practices are presented in discrete and manageable steps. Though booklets are set up for seven days, these seven days need not be back to back, or confined to one week completion. Move at your own pace. Watch your mind lighten and brighten. Live fully and enjoy the precious life you have.
  • Excellent support for both new and experienced practitioners
  • Introduction and deepening of meditation practices in small increments
  • Non-sectarian instructions
  • Compatible with any spiritual tradition
  • Supplemental guided meditations in audio format are available but not required
  • Valuable and beautiful record and memory books
  • A pleasure to use and joy to give as gifts for companions on the way

With these practices we become intimate with our own immediate experience and come to see that things are not as substantial as they seem. We expand consciousness and the way we use mind, embracing happiness and contentment, making every day of life interesting and deeply satisfying.

Series:

Transforming Consciousness Series

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This series can be used in several ways:
  • as an independent study
  • as a way to integrate your meditation practices into all life experience
  • a companion to Insight and Mindfulness courses (use before, during, or after the class)
  • as a refresher course long after an early experience with the practice
  • as companion to the book Being Prayer
  • as companion in individual work with a teacher, therapist, sponsor, or spiritual director

Transforming Consciousness Series