This offer closes in
For readers of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening
One month. One dollar.
Not a discount. A way to find out whether this fits your actual life before you decide.
Thursdays 9:00–10:30am Mountain · $79/month after the first month · cancel any time
The question you are actually asking
I have written to you several times about a room that meets on Thursday mornings, and you have not come.
I do not read that as resistance. In my experience it is usually arithmetic — a full life, a set hour, and no way yet to know whether the thing is worth rearranging anything for.
So let me take the arithmetic out of it.
The question in front of you was never whether this works. It is whether you would practise — with your calendar, your responsibilities, and the particular tiredness you carry into a Thursday morning.
I cannot answer that. You can, in about four Thursdays.
Waiting is not the neutral option
It feels neutral. It is not, quite.
Nothing about next month makes this easier. The calendar does not loosen on its own, and the body does not become more available while it waits.
What usually happens is that the book moves to a shelf, the initiation becomes a thing you did once, and six months later you are the same person with a warmer memory.
That is not a failure of character. It is what happens to almost everything we intend without structure.
I wrote something in the book that I meant plainly:
I’m not asking you to believe anything. I’m not asking you to take anything on faith. I’m asking you to experiment. To try. To see what happens.
This is that. A month, conducted as an experiment, with an actual hypothesis: that a set hour, guided by someone watching, in a room with other people, does something that reading and intending do not.
How to run the experiment properly
Come live at least once. That is the whole test.
Not four times — once. Watch the replays for the others if that is what the week allows. But one Thursday morning, 9:00 to 10:30 Mountain, in the room, doing what everyone else is doing.
If nothing happens, you will have learned something true about yourself for a dollar.
What comes with your membership
Everything a member gets, from the first morning. Nothing is held back during the trial — there would be no point.
Live with Master Mingtong every Thursday, 9:00–10:30am Mountain, ninety minutes
Every session recorded, so a full week can pass without you
The eight core teachings from Coming Home to Embodied Awakening, guided in practice
The community field — practitioners across the country, some three months in, some more than fifteen years
Does it work through a screen?
I put my iPad on my big screen TV in my living room. So I feel like I’m there, in the room, listening to Mingtong.
It’s just very amazing how you can feel the presence even if you are so far away.
Three things people ask
“What happens after the month?”
It becomes $79 a month, and you can cancel any time before that in two clicks — no form, no phone call, no explaining yourself to anyone.
“Can I practise with the body I have right now?”
Yes. Standing, seated, or lying down, and nobody in the room will know which you chose. Dr. Cynthia Li began this practice from her bed, fifteen minutes at a time.
“What if I can’t make Thursday mornings?”
Come to one, and let the replays hold the rest. One live session is the experiment. The others are a bonus.
Members
It’s been my sustaining practice for 10 years now.
— Karen Rowan-Tree
The very essence of my life. Not a practice — a becoming.
— Barbara McLawhorn
Today the easy way in is open
After [date] it is $79, like it is for everyone else.
Nothing else closes. The room is still there, still meeting, still Thursday.
But for one more day you can find out for a dollar instead of deciding it in your head.
I would rather you tried and left than kept meaning to.
Master Mingtong Gu
@The Chi Center