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Archive for November, 2010
Awakening
Monday, November 8th, 2010Contentment of awareness to abide from where we are doesn’t mean complacency to remain fixed in a particular state of being. It’s simply a state of realization knowing from where we stand in the process of our becoming or emerging.
Awakening
Sunday, November 7th, 2010The inner activity of the “ego-self” pushes us toward an ideal separate from our nature to be as we are. We are constantly comparing and contrasting ourselves against a measure to most always be something different from what we are- better, more, etc.
Awakening
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Can you realize who you already are? Can you abide by your experience- moment to moment- and allow your “true nature” to reveal itself? Can you relax in this realization?
Practice- Awareness of Intentions
Friday, November 5th, 2010[audio:MM-Awareness-of-Our-Intentions-Audio.mp3] Here is an informal practice that you can do anytime during your day. Within awareness, the focus of attention is “intentions”. Take a moment, and as best you can, see if you can simply reflect on how your intentions move your actions in a certain way… and how a shift in intention (i.e. purposeful […]
Awakening
Friday, November 5th, 2010Our “true nature” has a natural tendency to simply and spontaneously self-reveal. Our aspiration is not to change our inner condition, but to let it change itself.
Awakening
Thursday, November 4th, 2010As we interfere with arisings in our awareness through either rejection or manipulation to change as we are- or the way things are- we muffle the potentiality for the essence our “true nature” to unfold and manifest.
Awakening
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Nothing exists outside our experience- and our own consciousness. We have the power to change our own “subjective world”.
Awakening
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Being where we are means being with our open awareness with whatever happens to be arising in the moment- non-judgmental and non-reactionary.
Beyond Personal Identity…
Monday, November 1st, 2010Attend well to your mind… and feast on the mystery of your life. The person that “I think I am” has taken so much time and effort to create and to construct. Layers and layers of narrative (i.e. constructs, conceptions, memories, ideas, and beliefs, etc.) reinforced and reified over and over again. Behaviorally, we act […]
Awakening
Monday, November 1st, 2010In our reflective process of inquiry, we come to understand the relationship between things- as they are- the “suchness” of things.