Marcy Vaughn is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for more than 40 years. She is a senior student of the Bon Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and a senior teacher in Tenzin Wangyal's non-sectarian 3 Doors Academy.

This is the first of three practices, modeled on the three doors to the inner refuge. The first practice will be Stillness (of the body), followed by Silence (of speech), and ending with Spaciousness (of mind and heart).