Awakening
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010Our habitual tendencies are often manifested from the rigidity and inflexibility to accept the impermanence inherent to our experiences.
Archive for December, 2010
Awakening
Monday, December 13th, 2010The implication for identification and reification is to keep things the same. The ego wants to anchor in “sameness”- states of familiarity.
Mindfulness & Liberation of Mind
Monday, December 13th, 2010We sit and remember intentionally to be in the present moment again and again. Awareness is our consciousness of being in the present moment. Mindfulness helps us to remember to watch the mind as it stays present or drifts away. It is our mechanism to sustain the continuity of awareness- to remember again and again […]
Awakening
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Our identification arises from the particular relationship we have with the content of our experience. Can we recognize without a clinging sense of objectification?
Awakening
Saturday, December 11th, 2010To identify is to separate the “I” from our experiencing awareness. We cannot package what we are inherently part of… true nature and true presence simply are- emerging, being, and flowing.
Awakening
Friday, December 10th, 2010With mindsight, there is no object of perception- no reification of the content of our present experience- we are our awareness.
Awakening
Thursday, December 9th, 2010The reflective quality of mindsight is simply the unfolding process of recognition, knowingness, and awareness of that which is here and now.
Awakening
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Ego identification can be very subtle and often runs unconsciously in the mechanical operation of our minds- impressions, representations, and associations are deeply ingrained and profoundly influential upon how we see and define ourselves.
Awakening
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010The narrative we live out is only alive because the ego has seeded and perpetuated its existence- in form and in energy.
The Myth of Self
Monday, December 6th, 2010~ Adapted from “Rebel Buddha”- Dzogchen Ponlop Imagine looking down one day and seeing that your hand is clenched in a fist. You sense that you are holding on to something so vital that you cannot let it go. Your fist is clenched so tightly that your hand hurts. The ache in your hand travels […]