Preparation and invocation

1. Start the meditation by lighting the candle. Some may want to ring a bell or gong or using a singing bowl.
2. Settle into your seat. Make yourself comfortable - feel your feet or legs on the ground, keep your back straight and pay attention to your breathing.
3. Become aware of north, east, south and west, above and below, and see yourself exactly in the centre.
4. Now invoke your personal guide, guardian angel, and any other spirits or beings who could support this meditation (for example - the spirits of water, earth, fire and air). Next invoke the spirit or angel of The Edge. And then invoke the Beloved, the Great Spirit, God, Essence, or who or whatever you want to call Him/Her/It, and open to the silence. (if you don’t see or feel any of the above beings, that doesn’t matter. Just do the invocation)
5. Connect with the meditation community, all over the world, who also meditate for The Edge. Feel the togetherness of this group – the sense of shared vision and work that binds them in a common purpose.
6. Give thanks for your life as it is right now. This might be the point at which you might like to listen to some music.

1. Visualize yourself sitting at the edge of a pond (together with the other meditators). Be aware of the place, look around to the landscape, feel the weather, in short be fully present in the imagined situation.
2. Then allow a symbol or an image, that represents The Edge, to rise up from the middle of the pond. Simple let the image or symbol arise and allow it to become clear. Take time to notice the details of your image, size, shape, color, sound, scent, and the materials it is made from. Does it have movement?
3. Now send into this symbol your positive energy in the form of blessings and best wishes for the future. Infuse the symbol or image with your positive thoughts and love.
4. After you have done this for a while, let the image of the pond and the symbol slowly dissolve and return with your attention and awareness to the room you are in.

Another possibility

1. Imagine that the 10 months program of The Edge already exists, and see yourself in one way or another connected with it. Perhaps as a student, a teacher, a sponsor, a parent, a participant in the summer school or another workshop, or just as an interested and informed friend and supporter of the project.
2. Then imagine a specific situation in the future in which in one way or another this becomes concrete. Perhaps see yourself sitting in a class, or talking with someone about it. Imagine the room or space you are in: a classroom, your home, or somewhere outside, whatever. Then imagine the specific surroundings and moment. See the colors, the forms, what you’re wearing, notice the time of the day, the weather, the other person(s) who is/are present, etc.
3. Then see yourself in the situation: listening, talking, moving, or whatever suits the situation. And let the feedback/impressions come in: feelings, thoughts, sensations, awareness. (allow whatever comes to simply be there, without judgement or even the need to immediately understand it. It may be that not all feelings are pleasant)
4. Then let the image go and return your attention and your awareness to the room you are meditating in.

A third possibility. - metabevana, a Buddhist love meditation 

1. Start with sending love (or loving thoughts) to yourself.
2. Then consecutively do the same for a friend, a neutral person, and an enemy (or someone towards whom you have hostile feelings). You do all these for 3-5 minutes.
3. Then you send your love to the whole world. Start with the people near to you, then the people in the neighbourhood, then the people somewhat further away, and so on. Let your love ripple out like waves in a pond after you have thrown in a stone.
4. The last phase is that you send this same love to the future, specifically to The Edge. See the school grow and blossom. After you have done this for a while return your attention and awareness to the room where you are actually in.

Ending the meditation

1. See if there is any commitment resulting from the meditation that you want to make, or if any ideas or suggestions have come up.
2. Give thanks to the beings and the Essence you invoked, and let them go.
3. Thank and appreciate your co-meditators, and say goodbye to them (until we meet again).
4. Pronounce or think the wish: ‘May the results of this meditation benefit all life.’
5. Blow the candle, ring a bell, do a namaste (bowing and greeting the God within yourself or another with your hands folded before your breast) or whatever act that, for you, marks the end of a time of meditation. Then go on your way with your day.
6. Write down anything that came up during meditation that you don’t want to forget for a while.

As for our suggestions:

We want to stress again: if you want to do it completely differently, to do it in your own way – great! Maybe you’ll want to add music, or art, or yoga – who knows what. What matters is that you enjoy your meditation. When you meditate with joy, you can be sure that your meditation will contribute to not just The Edge, but to the world as a whole.  

If you have any ideas or suggestions that you think are important for us, please let us know: officenamanager@theedge.nu. We’d appreciate this very much.

Thank you. May blessings and peace be with you. 

The Faculty and staff of The Edge.