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Archive for June, 2015

Why Pay Attention?

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

Be Aware & Be Amazed! Open awareness and free attention are essential to our practice, because every moment in life is absolute in itself. No two contiguous moments are the same. That’s all there is. There is nothing other than this present moment; there is nothing but “this”. So when we don’t pay attention to […]

Awakening

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

To simply NOTICE we are free… of those little voices that seem to incessantly sound off inside of our heads.

Sunday, June 21st, 2015

share the gift of gratitude…

Awakening

Sunday, June 21st, 2015

The ‘human condition’ leaves us all ‘broken’ in some way. To ‘fix’ ourselves is to accept ourselves as we are.

Art of Noticing

Sunday, June 21st, 2015

As we practice being still & quiet, what do we notice in this field of our embodied awareness? Skillfully attending with ‘observational distance’, we intentionally & purposefully note without indulging both internal and external ‘events’ as they are happening… here & now. ‘Being in the moment’, relaxed and ready, we simply witness to know the […]

Awakening

Saturday, June 20th, 2015

Within ourselves, it is our open curiosity to know and to understand that has the power to transform and to free us.

Awakening

Friday, June 19th, 2015

One thing at a time. Computers multi-task. Humans are much more proficient mono-tasking.

‘Renunciation.’

Friday, June 19th, 2015

At what point do we begin to reject our habitual patterns? Self-awareness is the first step in recognizing our patterns- ‘seeing’ clearly what we are habitually thinking, saying, or doing. Openly and carefully learning how a pattern works can transform the ignorance that most often underlies it. What may be most important to changing our […]

Friday, June 19th, 2015

sit with it…

Thursday, June 18th, 2015

one thing at a time…