Saturday, June 29th, 2019
look ‘inside’ for one’s path…
This pilgrimage within ourselves can bring us deep and profound understanding into the nature of our own being.
There’s no other way. ‘Awakening’ is a “DO IT YOURSELF” kind of process- with the hard work no one else can do for you.
When we continue to deny ‘reality’, it eventually wakes us up in a profound way.
Our mind works diligently at interpreting and narrating the events of our life to us. Our awareness simply allows us to experience them, directly and intimately, without indulging in them- to experience them simply as they are. In the space of awareness we can witness our events of mind- our thinking, feeling, and sensing- without […]
Our mind is analogous to a vessel of cloudy water constantly agitated by the moving sediment of thought and feeling. The longer we are able to keep the vessel of cloudy water still, the more the sediment settles down and the water will be seen clearly. Through the continuity and consistency of our mindfulness practice, […]
Can we learn to suffer well- to learn to work with our states of ‘dis-ease’ in more adaptive ways? With this purposeful ‘work’, we may come to suffer less.
‘Disturbances’ are just part of life’s experiences. The challenges posed by these disturbances are often magnified by our underdeveloped cognitive-emotional capacity to simply work with them. Practicing mindfulness can expand, strengthen, and further develop this capacity.