Joost offers guidance into the imaginal experience of being a heartful devil - a demon with an open heart. How does this imaginal practice allow for a liberation into wildness, fierceness and devilish, playful intelligence and wisdom? As is so often the case, this meditation was strongly inspired by work with Rosa Lewis: https://rosalewis.co.uk/

Meditation guidance- Becoming a heartful devil

In this meditation guidance, Joost explores the idea of 'being Tiny Tenderness'. 'Just love yourself' is such a meaningless phrase for many of us. But it's possible to be soft with ourselves in very precise, surgical ways - and what's more, to recognize that this tiny tenderness is, in a way, who we are deep down. Image by Odile as a response to the guidance, representing her own Tiny Tenderness, named Feön.

Tiny Tenderness - becoming surgical self-compassion

This is a meditation, or an invocation, that accompanies a text written by Joost for River Kenna's Future-Bending Manyfesto series. In this meditation, you move from fear, sadness, anger to mystery, absurdity and playfulness - using these energies to summon and embody your own open-hearted devil. Find the Manyfesto here: https://inthewilderless.substack.com/p/future-bending-manyfesto-volume-2#%C2%A7summoning-an-open-hearted-devil-an-invocation

Summoning your open hearted devil - an invocation

In this guided meditation, Joost offers encouragement to drop ideas of progress and other frames around practice, and embodying and opening to the mystery that practice can be.

Dropping practice frames and embodying mystery (guided meditation)

In this guided meditation, Joost offers an exploration of metta or loving kindness meditation, going into sincere well wishing for yourself as a starting point. This is inspired by Maija Haavisto's book Loving Awakening, which can be found here: https://lovingawakening.net/. He also references this very funny tweet:  https://twitter.com/the_wilderless/status/1636037514799480837

Metta and sincere well-wishing - guided meditation

In this guidance Joost offers a way into devotional practice, opening first into not-knowing, and then bowing to lay yourself, and everything that you are, at the feet of life. Partly inspired by this episode of the Emerald: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3e5bkfY8mCsdhb9H39dHmy?si=589e012474e5480d

Bowing to being: devotional practice and not-knowing

Joost offers a guided meditation on loneliness as a gate to what is most precious about us, and the paradox of loneliness feeling so particular while also being a fundamental human experienced shared by so many people.

The Loneliness Gate

Joost guides you to explore and express your experience through the breath, giving new voice to the unfolding dance of self through different types of breath - allowing you to counter more theoretical, judgemental ideas about yourself through the lived expressiveness of practice. You're not *always like this or that*, that's too abstract. You're an expression of this moment. Let's get creative.

Breath as a creative expression of who you are in practice

In this meditation, Joost invites you to get in touch with a simple, kind of dumb love and kindness, letting go of the identification with intelligence and intellectualism and becoming a kind of teddy bear. Re-integrating this is like being a teddy bear in a mech suit.

Teddy Bear In A Mech Suit - on simple, kind of dumb love

In this guidance, Joost returns to a classic Dharmagarage phrase - nothing needs to be anything. This phrase can be used for a kind of 'deconceptualization practice' that can release a lot of energy in a cool way when applied to such things as 'this body', 'the world', 'consciousness' and 'death'. This treatment of nothing needs to be anything emphasizes just how weird everything is, inspired by a guidance by Rosa Lewis at Life Itself.

Nothing needs to be anything - and everything is really fucking weird

In this guidance Joost asks - what happens when we love so deeply that the love turns to grief? How can we feel into this heartbreak around those close to us, the world, and finally ourselves? This guidance is inspired by Dharmagarage member Niki who is greatly worried about her friends in Lebanon. 

A tear that hangs inside my soul forever

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