The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard

In this meditation, I invite you to explore different types of attention — sensory, outer, inner, breath and spiritual — and how each can gently deepen our practice.

We begin by resting in a state of relaxed awareness, allowing attention to be brought to bear without strain or effort. From here, we notice the senses as gateways into the present moment, before widening awareness to include inner experience, the rhythm of the breath, and a quieter spiritual attention.
Nothing needs to be forced or held tightly. Attention is allowed to move and settle naturally, guided by intention and supported by stillness.
This daily guided meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, helping you cultivate clarity, steadiness and gentle awareness.
Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – Relaxed awareness
00:35 – Bringing awareness to bear
01:55 – The bell
02:30 – The five types of attention
03:00 – Intending awareness of the senses
03:30 – Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching
04:40 – Honing attention
06:40 – Noticing background sounds
07:40 – Inner attention
08:40 – Outer attention
10:20 – Spiritual attention
12:25 – Closing bell

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In this meditation, I invite you to return to the full basic form, the foundation that quietly supports all of our practice.

These returning meditations are here to help us come back to what is essential. If you are new, you are very welcome to join the practice as it is today. And if you wish to go deeper, the earlier meditations in the archive lay out this practice from the beginning, step by step.
As we settle, the body is allowed to soften and relax, gradually and without effort. Simple affirmations remind us that we are more than body, more than thoughts and feelings, and that a deeper centre of awareness remains steady beneath it all.
This daily guided meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, helping you rest again in stillness and carry that intention gently into the hours ahead.

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome back
00:15 – Returning to the archive and foundations
00:56 – The bell
03:15 – The body softening and relaxing
05:45 – Relaxation moving through the body
07:15 – I have a body, but I am more than my body
08:14 – Noticing judgement without curiosity
08:28 – I have feelings, but I am more than my thoughts
09:45 – I am I
10:10 – Resting in the centre of the breath
11:15 – Carrying the intention into the day
11:40 – Closing bell

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In this meditation, I return with you to the two complementary modes of practice: discursive and passive meditation, and how they work together over time.

I reflect on why both forms are necessary, and how practices such as the rosary can help us understand this movement between intention and rest. Discursive prayer gives shape and direction, while passive meditation allows us to receive, to settle, and to be held.
We come gently into stillness, using the body as a place of awareness, beginning with the hands and the simple experience of openness. As intention is named and held lightly, a word or versiculum may be added, allowing the practice to rest again in love and presence.
This daily guided meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, supporting stillness, openness and quiet awareness.

Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
00:10 – Discursive and passive meditation
00:40 – Why both forms are needed
00:50 – The rosary as meditative prayer
02:10 – A direction for this practice
02:40 – The bell
03:00 – Coming to stillness
03:50 – Awareness of the palms
05:30 – Experiencing openness in the hands
06:40 – Releasing the hands
07:10 – Sensation and tingling
07:20 – The intention to feel
07:50 – An intention of openness
08:10 – Naming the divine
09:20 – Introducing the versiculum
10:30 – Resting in love
11:40 – Closing bell
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In this meditation, I invite you to explore intentionality — the quiet direction of the mind and heart that gives shape and energy to our practice.

We reflect on what it means to hold an intention: not as effort or striving, but as a gentle desire that something might be, for ourselves or for another. As intention gathers our inner faculties, attention naturally settles, and the breath becomes a steady companion.
Resting with the rhythm of breathing, where the out-breath becomes the in-breath, we allow awareness to fill the whole body. Intention is not forced here; it is simply held, present in the here and now.
This daily guided meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, supporting clarity, steadiness and quiet presence.

Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – Exploring intentionality
01:22 – Gathering the inner faculties
01:42 – Holding an intention for others or yourself
02:07 – Intention as something that unfolds
03:10 – The bell
05:52 – Finding the rhythm of the breath
06:08 – Where the out-breath becomes the in-breath
07:52 – Breathing with every cell
09:09 – Resting in the here and now
10:52 – Closing bell

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In this meditation, I introduce the four directions of meditative practice — intention, attention, compassion and wisdom — as simple guides for deepening our prayer and meditation.

We begin by taking our seat and making a clear, gentle intention. From there, attention is invited to rest with the breath, allowing calmness and steadiness to grow without effort. As the practice unfolds, we open deliberately to compassion and to the presence of love, holding the body in stillness and stability.
These four directions are not steps to complete, but orientations we return to again and again. They help us practise with clarity and kindness, allowing wisdom to emerge naturally over time.
This daily guided meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, supporting stillness, presence and gentle awareness.

Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
00:10 – The four directions of meditative practice
01:13 – The bell
01:25 – Taking the seat
02:40 – Making an intention
04:00 – Practice arising from intention
05:20 – Bringing attention to the breath
06:05 – Breathing in peace and love
06:10 – Calmness
08:25 – Entering the presence of love
09:09 – Holding stillness and stability
11:04 – Returning to awareness
11:17 – Closing bell

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