Episodes
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Meditation: preliminary practice 2
One might ask, “why is a meditation focusing on the physical body a preliminary practice to a retreat on the nature of mind?” My brief response begins this meditation session; then onward into being present “to the body in the … Continue reading →
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Meditation: preliminary practice 1
A meditation retreat is happening Fri-Mon. Here is the preliminary practice. These are the steps: The practice (do this at least once a day before the retreat) Sitting well will support you in opening to the nature of mind. Do … Continue reading →
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Meditation: two: innocence, deep radiance and receive, radiate
Today’s meditation (Saturday) deepened into a wordless radiance, a pure-ness. Thursday’s meditation engaged breathing, sublime Oneness, and the constancy of receiving and radiating.
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Meditation: innocence
To return to innocence; and interesting proposal. return return to innocence What does that invite in you? What does it inspire? Are you open to the openness of innocence? How about it? Take it on for a week.
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Meditation: fullness
All sentient beings have senses. I include plants and stone beings, mountains, rivers, and such as having senses and being sentient. The senses present a constant richness; that is the nature of experience. Experience and its fullness are the result … Continue reading →
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Meditation: free, happiness
The Buddha says, “be free, ” and “live joyfully.” How is this accomplished? Buddha responds, “by your own efforts.” We meditate with this.
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Meditation: invitation to nowness
Our senses are constantly participating in the moment. All senses, all at once, in the allness. Opening to them and to what is occurring, inside, outside, and all around, is one method for opening the heart and the heart of … Continue reading →
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Meditation: inseparable 2
We’ve explored inseparable before. We focused on words encompassed within the wholeness of inseparable, such as interconnected, interdependent, dependent, and interbeing. We have also sat with woven, continuity, whole, wholeness, and oneness. So many idea-avenues that might open the mind ……
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Meditation: inseparable 1
The inseparability of everything is the display of awakened mind. – Nice to be back with you.
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Meditation: awaken 7, breath infinitude
Breath is the unity of life and possibilities. Each being of Mother Earth breathes. The possibilities of that being’s incarnation is possible solely due to that being breathing, thus its incarnation. When hours long, days, years, or centuries, with each … Continue reading →
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Meditation: awaken 6, abiding
Gentle. Breathing. Ah.
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Meditation: awaken 2, interface
Juncture. Meeting point. Interface. Union. This moment, brand new, never before. We breathe.
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Meditation: awaken
To awaken is a wide-ranging concept which begins with its common usage, to awaken from sleep. A person might or might not remember much that has occurred through the several hours of sleep, yet sleep is very full of mental, … Continue reading →
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Meditation: peace, a foundation of happiness
How are we to bring about true happiness? What are the causes of happiness? One could get stuck on the term happiness, almost perplexed with how each person might consider it, even unto the debase. Happiness, before modern craziness of … Continue reading →
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Meditation: related
We are all related. This wisdom from the Indigenous Peoples of the world has been uttered, sung, and danced since the beginning of time. We are all related. Supporting one another, all are supported. Mindful of all others who have … Continue reading →
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Meditation: ancestry
One aspect of conscientiousness is relationality. In other words, being conscientious will be in a given moment with the particular people or circumstances of that moment. Relational. The idea of relationality can also refer to how the now is a … Continue reading →
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Meditation: be the blessing
Change. It is part of life. It is how life proceeds. Blessing is a flow of goodness, pouring through all circumstances – because beings of goodness ceaselessly emanate such goodness. Be the blessing. Be the goodness. Radiate with every breath.
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Meditation: gentle mind
As the monks walked from Ft. Worth, TX to Washington, D.C., one of the subjects often spoken of was a peaceful or gentle mind. Importantly, as the world bore witness to them walking in sun, rain, or snow, we witnessed … Continue reading →
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