I am a 65 year old Humanistic Psychologist, a Buddhist Priest, a Zen Master, and a Minister of Faith Body. Over the last 30 years, it has been my joyful and passionate calling to provide somatic training and growth counseling in Applied Meditation Therapy®, lead Zen meditation practice groups in California and Hawaii, and give public talks and bodymind skill workshops on living meditation as the wisdoming process of everyday life.

       In 1996, I created ZenDoctor.Com to promote greater public awareness of Applied Meditation Psychology and to globally extend my humanistic teachings as a Psychologist and a Zen Roshi to the global Internet community. Also, since the creation of my website, I have been providing Telephone & Web Video Counseling & Training to people worldwide. While working on my book publication, I continue to write articles in Europe and America on spiritual growth, optimum wellness, behavioral wisdom, compassionate action and peak human embodiment.

      As an extension of my worldwide teaching and counseling, I am happy to introduce this spiritual network community where people from all around the world can learn more about living enlightenment and the Way of wisdoming meditation while sharing fellowship, inspiration, insight, and understanding.

      This Online Community is a safe place where you can openly dialogue about your spiritual and meditation life journey. Here, you can support each other by practicing sincerity and authenticity as you express your thoughts and feelings on living meditation, mindfulness, faith body, and the farther reaches of human nature.

      I encourage you to share your experiences, comments, and questions with integrity, humility and beginner's heartmind, for these are the true hallmarks of your Only Moment Body™ wisdoming before attainment or gain.

      The fundamental purpose of this online community is to provide a contained refuge and a safe haven for spiritual fellowship and honest inner journeying. As such, it is not an appropriate space to market or advertise products or other websites and social networks with embedded audios, videos, photo albums, or rss feed aggregators.

      I appreciate everyone honoring these parameters so that together we can nourish and sustain the deep inner refuge and upright spiritual container that this online community represents.

"INFANT"
Bamboo Brushwork Calligraphy
By Dr. Bonnici 2001

Your baby heart has never left you. It is open, wondrous, and tender. Yet, even in its tenderness, your baby heart knows the meaning of faith and confidence in the Vast Wisdoming that sustains all of life and the Universe as a Whole.

Meditation life practice is a Way of being embodied as a true human being---a Way of embracing all the parts of yourself and releasing the grace of healing, wisdom and compassion. It is allowing your baby heart to peek through all your fears, anxieties, shields, and ego-self armoring.

Meditation is to gently nurture your inner infant, to hold it when it is fearful, to love it when it is worried and concerned, and to let it know that you understand its feeling of being overwhelmed and scared. However, you can also encourage it through your practice of seated meditation. When you sit down in meditation, your baby heart begins to sense the original wisdoming, compassion, and confidence given to it by an Infinite and Eternal Universe.

We felt that wisdoming, courage and confidence when we took our first baby step. Yes we may have fallen, felt pain and cried, Yet our infant trust in the compassionate wisdoming of the Whole Universe encouraged us to begin again and again. Until one day we felt completely surprised, for not only were we standing, but we were also walking and running. We felt so proud at our accomplishment. Yet we also felt so grateful that the life force within our body kept calling us to walk, to step forward, and to grow into our potentials completely.

The wisdoming of our life force is still calling us to grow and become our fullest human potentials. Each day we are being called to meet life’s challenges with faith, courage, compassion, dignity, and wisdom. We are being called to step forward with one baby step at a time.

The practice of seated and engaged meditation shows us how to be courageously present within our Only Moment Body. When we begin to really practice meditation in our activities and relationships, we have already aroused the original trust and wonder of our baby heart/mind. We have already begun to reach out and cautiously explore the world of fear, anger, grief, and loss, just as it is. It is the world that is given to us. Sometimes it has much suffering, pain, manipulation, and confusion. Yet, our world is also filled with mystery, truth, wisdom, beauty, sacredness, and a deep joy.

Meditation is the practice of not pushing away or becoming obsessively run by our doubts, fears and anxieties. Meditation is to compassionately open to the doubts, fears and anxieties within and to step forward with clarity, faith, and courage. In this Way we nurture a balanced and honest view of life and our relationships.

When we were infants we knew life just as IT is. We knew fear, anxiety, helplessness, and inadequacy. Yet, that wisdoming of the life force within us kept calling us to find the courage to try and stand again and again and again. Now, as adults, we are still called out by that same inner wisdoming to find our true balance, posture, faith and confidence even in the midst of our ever changing, confusing, worrisome, and challenging world.

Our way of living meditation is not a quick relief. However, it is a refuge during the process of honestly meeting and embracing our life and our felt experience moment by moment. Meditation as a Way of Life is just that. It is a promise to our True Self and the Vast Wisdoming that supports our life to always embody the truth of our experience even when it is uncomfortable.

Meditation is a sincere dedication to acknowledge all our feelings in the present moment, and yet not to judge our selves or beat our selves up with guilt and shame. It is our devoted, disciplined and compassionate intention to always begin again and again, practicing the mindful wisdoming of our life moment by moment. Meditation is to be ever intimate with the spiritual breath of our Only Moment Body and the power of our core tenderness that has always been waiting to embrace and guide us with felt wisdoming just as we are, just as IT is.