Practice in Public

BEING: Carrying the Inner Work Into the Open

DOING: Living the Path Without Performance

“The best way to teach is to live so that people want to learn.”

— Unknown

BEING

It’s easy to be mindful alone.

Easier still on retreat, or on the cushion.

But practice matures when it steps into the street,

the meeting,

the marketplace.

Being in public doesn’t mean performing holiness.

It means living authentically,

without hiding your breath,

your pauses,

your kindness.

You don’t need to announce your practice.

It reveals itself in how you move.

Your calm is not private.

It changes the air around you.

DOING

Today, let your practice breathe in public:

1. Pause before speaking in a crowded room

2. Breathe mindfully in a queue without checking your phone

3. Offer a moment of patience where impatience dominates

4. Choose kindness in an ordinary interaction — cashier, driver, stranger

Do it quietly, without fanfare.

Let presence spill into places it’s rarely seen.

This is not performance.

It is generosity.

CLOSING LINE

“Practice in public is not about being noticed.

It is about letting presence leak into the world.”