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Archive for October, 2010
Practice- Time Out & Time In
Friday, October 22nd, 2010[audio:MM-Time-Out-Time-In-Audio.mp3] In the here and now, take a couple of moments in your frenetic day to awaken your mind and expand your “subjective time”. Take “pause” and just sit quietly for a minute or so- just noticing what arises in your awareness, the breath and any sensations in your body. Simply notice the sounds filling […]
Awakening
Thursday, October 21st, 2010We can be our own worst enemies- “internal saboteurs”– committing acts of aggression against ourselves.
Awakening
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Without coming to know our minds and how our minds work, we allow for the tyranny of thoughts, feelings, and subsequent reactionary patterns to continue automating our experiences.
Awakening
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Do you truly know how to be yourself- moment to moment- where you are directly in your own experience?
Awakening
Monday, October 18th, 2010Intent of inquiry, mindful awareness, and presence are all an integrated “whole” in the emerging process of being with our true nature.
Awakening
Sunday, October 17th, 2010Our practice provides us with deep, reflective inquiry into our true nature, the “light” of presence, as well as the ego-defenses that obscure our innate capacity for authenticity in being and fully experiencing the process of being.
Awakening
Saturday, October 16th, 2010Our true nature- our “emerging-self” as distinguished from our “ego-self” is grounded in the light of presence- everything arises in this light to be seen.
Skillful Mindfulness- Mindsight II
Friday, October 15th, 2010Mindfulness is a Way of being… seeing more clearly… and living more fully. The formal and informal practice of mindfulness is a process- a shift in consciousness that develops over time with our intention, attention, and care for its Way of being. In this process, we come to know with discerning awareness the clarity of […]
Awakening
Friday, October 15th, 2010Experiencing presence- being where we are means not just knowing or experiencing it- but being it- “one” with our unfolding and emerging process.
Awakening
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Ego-defensiveness is a self-protection tendency our consciousness engages to preserve a construct in “self” and in “reality”. “I think therefore I am”… separates us from our direct experience with the mind-body process.