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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, 2010

We can be our own worst enemies- “internal saboteurs”– committing acts of aggression against ourselves.

Awakening

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Without 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, 2010

Do you truly know how to be yourself- moment to moment- where you are directly in your own experience?

Awakening

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Intent 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, 2010

Our 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, 2010

Our 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, 2010

Mindfulness 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, 2010

Experiencing 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, 2010

Ego-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.