How do we view our failures? Can we honestly and confidently accept our failings as simply part of our recovery process? Through refined self-awareness of our cognitive & emotional patterns toward our unsuccessful efforts, we can begin to notice the conditions that feed into our inner response system. By paying close attention, we can recognize […]
A decision-making process based upon ‘binary’ thinking will only add to more human suffering.
This penetrating ‘light’ of awareness has the inherent ability to illuminate our patterns of mind when we can be still, relaxed, open, and focused with regular practice. In its refined state, it can generate a higher form of energy capable of penetrating and short-circuiting even the deeply ingrained patterns of thoughts, feelings, judgments, and convictions […]
What we don’t ‘see’ or neglect to ‘see’ will persist until we take notice and skillfully address what needs attending.
Gentle, nonjudgmental observation is a practice that helps us to recognize and better understand the nature of our innate tendencies to ‘hold on’- and to attach to certain thought & feeling patterns that arise from our internal responses (or reactions) to situations. It is this relaxed, balanced and abiding attention that also helps us to […]
When we are simply listening, what do we hear? When are simply looking, what do we see? When we are simply feeling, what do we feel? In the spectrum of awareness when there is no specific object of attention, we are simply ‘awarenessing’ an empty space of possibilities.