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Naikan In Four Movements

This four-part Naikan series grew out of a course I offered at Baltimore Dharma Group in Spring 2025. While Naikan is often framed as a tool for self-reflection, I came to see it as something more relational: not a system of correction, but a practice of returning—again and again—to what holds us, what flows through us, what we leave behind, and what we remain with.
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Naikan In Four Movements

Naikan In Four Movements
This four-part Naikan series grew out of a class I offered at Baltimore Dharma Group in Spring 2025. While Naikan is often framed as a tool for self-reflection, I came to see it as something more relational: not a system of correction, but a practice of returning—again and again—to what holds us, what flows through us, what we leave behind, and what we remain with. The traditional Naikan questions are simple: What have I received? What have I given? What troubles have I caused? A fourth movement asks something less direct: How do I stay in relationship with what I now see? These pieces are not instruction. They are invitations to remain close.
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The Movements
These movements aren’t steps in a sequence. You can enter at any point. Sometimes what comes last is what opens first. Sometimes we return to an earlier movement with new eyes. Each is a doorway—meant not to direct, but to invite.
1. Noticing What Holds You (What have I received?) 2. What Flows Without Return (What have I given?) 3. What I Couldn't Undo (What troubles have I caused?) 4. The Rhythm of Vow (Karma and Vow)
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