Awakening
Thursday, March 31st, 2016For many, the distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘productive’ and ‘destructive’ is becoming more obscured as the prevailing ‘narrative’ has degraded our capacity to skillfully discern.
Archive for March, 2016
Working with Thoughts…
Thursday, March 31st, 2016Are we aware of the karmic impact of our thought patterns? Thoughts simply arise in our consciousness- sometimes they manifest with intention and on many occasions they stream into awareness out of the reactionary impulse of our automaticity– to be continually ‘charged’ and conditioned by a ‘thinking mind’. Although our meditation practice is not ‘thinking’, […]
A Reflection in Stewardship
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016“The Guesthouse”~ Jelaluddin Rumi This being human is a guest house. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may […]
Awakening
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016‘Heartfulness’ is this warm openness to embrace- to befriend yourself just as you are… and others just as they are.
Noting Mind-Body States
Monday, March 28th, 2016The technique of ‘noting‘ mental activities and/or physical sensations of the mind-body experience can be a very useful tool in focusing and sustaining attention during our meditative practice of self-observation. It can also give our ‘thinking minds’ something to do other than disrupting our concentration with the constant distraction of discursive thoughts. The words we […]
Awakening
Monday, March 28th, 2016It’s about how we treat ourselves. It’s about how we treat others. It’s about how we live our lives in harmony with one and one another.
Awakening
Thursday, March 24th, 2016What we think may satisfy us today may not satisfy us at all tomorrow. Expectations have the power to drive our disappointment.