Orientation: A Minimal Guide to Presence
This is a short contemplative text for those drawn to presence, clarity, and grounded awareness — without adopting beliefs, techniques, or spiritual identities.
It does not offer a method.
It does not promise transformation.
It does not ask you to strive.
Instead, it introduces a simple orientation: a way of relating to experience that reduces strain and unnecessary effort.
The guide explores:
- Why seeking often creates distance
- The difference between practice and orientation
- Simple anchors already available in experience
- A minimal daily orientation (5 minutes)
- Common traps that quietly reintroduce striving
This text is intentionally brief, non-performative, and timeless. It is meant to be read slowly, returned to occasionally, and eventually set aside.
Format: PDF
Length: 17 pages
Author: Divine Arts
If you are tired of chasing states, accumulating practices, or waiting for certainty, this may serve as a quiet reorientation.
Orientation: A Minimal Guide to Presence is a short contemplative text for those drawn to presence and clarity, but weary of striving, techniques, and spiritual performance. Rather than offering a method or belief system, it introduces a simple orientation — a way of relating to experience that reduces strain and unnecessary effort. The guide includes gentle reflections and a minimal daily orientation, without performance criteria or promises of transformation. It is meant to be read slowly, returned to occasionally, and eventually set aside.