Deep Spring Center Thought for the day from Aaron: You know when you’re contracted into the small self and when you’re more back and open and there’s not a lot of thought about objects. There’s no planning mind, or if it comes up, it comes up like a butterfly flitting through and it goes. There are no stories, there’s just spaciousness, spacious awareness. This spacious awareness IS the awakened state. People ask me, ‘Once I get stable in that, okay Aaron, what next?’ Why should there be anything next? That’s it. Just rest in awareness; rest in the pure mind.Deep Spring Center Thought for the day from Aaron: It’s hard to maintain anger at another person and authentically offer the wish, ‘May you have well-being, may you be happy.’ Try it next time anger arises. Try it with the self too, when self-criticism arises. ‘May I have well-being. May I be happy’We support living with increasing wisdom, compassion, and an open heart. An Introduction to Deep Spring Center Deep Spring Center’s primary focus is to speak to the question of how we may live with more wisdom and compassion, with lovingkindness and non-harm to all beings. Our work falls into two categories, meditation and spiritual inquiry. In “spiritual inquiry,†questions related to our deepest purposes here on earth are explored. Who are we? Are we merely body and mind or is there a deeper, universal essence to our being? Why are we incarnate, and to what use may we put this incarnate experience? Life offers us some painful experiences. How can we relate to these as “teacher†rather than opponent and respond with increasing wisdom, compassion and love? Fundamental to our spiritual inquiry is the practice of meditation. While the core of the meditation practices we teach derive from Buddhist traditions, no ritual is included and no special religious beliefs are necessary to their practice. Deep Spring Center is, at heart, a community of individuals who are asking questions about how we can live with more clarity and love. Deep Spring Center, the organization, is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We offer residential meditation retreats, meditation classes and a meditation sitting group, and conduct workshops on a variety of topics. We also publish a newsletter and spiritual manuscripts and maintain this web site.