SpeakingPresence

This SpeakingPresence blog addresses the experience of presence in speaking through articles I write.  I have a second blog, RevealedPresence,  that explores presence through photographs and questions.   Last month, Rabbi Jordan Rosenberg asked me the following question in a comment on that blog:

I am curious about what you mean by presence? Is it more or different than mindfulness? What is the source of the ‘presence’? Internal? External? Human? Divine?

This seemed a pretty fundamental question, so after some thought I wrote a response in a comment on that blog.  Rabbi Rosenberg and I have emailed about ways to keep this conversation going and we’ve decide to cross-post on our respective blogs.  I’ve moved the entire conversation to a blog post on that site and thought I’d share the link on this blog because my response is so relevant to the subject of this blog.  You can read the entire conversation by following this link. I welcome any comments that people would like to make as a contribution to this conversation…