Practicing the Presence of Peace

by admin on February 24, 2009

Here is the front cover of Bear’s new book - Practicing the Presence of Peace. It’s scheduled for publication on April 22nd. Advanced review copies will be available before then. It will be available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and quality bookstores near you. Or, of course, signed copies will be available through this site. Stay tuned. (And in the meantime, practice peace!)
Practicing the Presence of Peace

Back cover text

A 300 Year Old Spiritual Classic Gives Birth to a Contemporary Masterpiece!

Can we experience the presence of peace every day, all day, while washing the dishes, feeding the cat, or riding the bus on the way to work? Can we experience this presence when the kids are fighting, the boss is frustrated and the stock market is in tatters? This book says absolutely yes, and shows us how!

In the late 1600’s a small book appeared, The Practice of the Presence of God, describing the daily spiritual practices of a humble monk named Brother Lawrence. That book, never out of print, evolved into a beloved classic and textbook for “contemplative spirituality.” Now Practicing the Presence of Peace updates that beloved classic and shows how the simple practice of peace inevitably leads to

• Better health and physical healing
• Happier family relationships
• Profitable vocational advancement
• The end of the agonizing search for “more.”

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Heart Mountain Monastery (HMM) was started by a few very ordinary men over 20 years ago. We met for over 15 years almost every Sunday morning, and often in the weekday evenings, in our homes and sometimes in various hiking areas in Northern Colorado to discuss meditation, our various spiritual teachers and what it meant to live a consistently authentic spiritual life while simultaneously being “family men” working in the world. Over the years our community naturally expanded to include women. What brought us together was our attraction to various teachers of non-duality. It wasn’t long before we discovered that the word “monk,” means solitary, or alone, and thus in fact a word pointing to the One. A monk is one who is in the process of recognizing ever more deeply the One. And “Nun” comes from “nonnus” which is the feminine form of “monk.” Together, as monks and nuns, we were/are living the one life that is here. . Over the years, as we sought to understand the personal dynamics non-duality, we continued to find more and more teachers to guide us along the way, and more and more “monks and nuns” who were similarly interested in this unfolding. We currently have "connections/practitioners" on both coasts and in the Great Lakes area. We are just now reaching out via the web to offer/invite a "virtual" monastic community of like-minded folks. Although we have accumulated over 20 years worth of material and pointers to guide and enliven our daily walk, we are just now developing a web presence and reaching out. If you would like to help develop and articulate this community, we invite you to do so in whatever way you are moved. Please contact us, and let us know you are there, here, on this One path. We may squabble, we may party together, we may disagree, but we are, after all, brothers and sisters of the same parent! For this, we are dumfounded, and grateful.