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Archive for July, 2010

Awakening

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Insight is a way of looking at the world. Knowledge is how the world actually is.

Awakening

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Tears are simply the seeds that link and grow our hearts for togetherness.

Awakening

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Our drive for mastery often puts us into direct conflict with our longing for simplicity.

Awakening

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Don’t take your mental activities too seriously or personally, they are not the totality of who you are.

Clear Sanity IV

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Clear sanity offers the power of illuminated awareness to realize the full spectrum of our humanity. In our meditation practice, the energy of mindfulness carries within it the energy of concentration. This is why our early attending exercises were so important- fundamental to cultivating our capacity for single-pointed concentration. When mindfulness becomes powerful so does […]

Clear Sanity III

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Clear sanity is our inherited instinct for fulfillment- our universal human potential… Clear sanity is not a continuous stream of conscious-mindful awareness. It simply arises from an unconditional presence of open awareness. It is a natural and spontaneous state of potentiality- special moments where “glimpses” or “flashes” of enlightenment illuminate our Way, and help us […]

Awakening

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Our windows of tolerance open and expand when we can see through our impulse and reactionary force.

Awakening

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

To attune to the internal world of another, one must first attune to their own.

Clear Sanity II

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Clear sanity is a process of recovery with “sense-consciousness”… Clear sanity is not a transcendental state of being. It is simple or ordinary consciousness- “plain” cognition or “bare attention”. It’s choiceless awareness on behalf of an abstract watcher. The mindfulness of effort is an intuitive sense to stay with one’s attention and awareness plainly and […]

Awakening

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Blame only sheds our capacity for responsibility.