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Archive for April, 2016
Taming Our Aggression
Friday, April 15th, 2016Growing up in the Western part of the world, we are socialized to be “climbers”- to be competitive, successful, and proud of the position and status of our pecking order. Competitiveness and aggressiveness are deeply conditioned into our Way of living. Committing acts of aggression in our Western society both actively and passively are commonplace […]
Awakening
Thursday, April 14th, 2016Having awareness for what we are experiencing is only part of the discipline and the awakening. The larger part is the space in awareness that is calm, stable, and focused so that we may actually notice and come to know what we are actually experiencing.
Understanding the Drama of ‘Self’
Thursday, April 14th, 2016Do we see clearly our condition of mind- all the assumptions and judgments? Do we see how we label and categorize perceptions of mind- what is “good”, “bad”, and “neutral”? Do we notice our fixation and grasping tendencies of what is labeled “good”? How about our rejection, denial, and avoidance of what is labeled as […]
Awakening
Monday, April 11th, 2016It’s not time we need to better manage. It’s our attention. Living nearly 1/2 of our waking moments distracted, fragmented, and on “automatic pilot”, the moments, the time seems to just slip away.
Awakening
Sunday, April 10th, 2016Mindfulness practice only asks us to become familiar with the moment we’re in before we start to make sense of it.
The Workings of Mind
Sunday, April 10th, 2016Our conscious mental activity is a flowing and energetic process of sensory perception, cognition, and emotion. A great deal of our sensory information is often missed as it arises and passes so quickly within the awareness of a busy and preoccupied mind. Much of our sensory data is also perceived as an abstract or mental […]