Embodying our wise heart-mind, being kind to ourselves and all those we touch, is the best we can do.
When at times we can't, may we have the wisdom and humility to reach out for help.
Leaving fear behind, we carry on, together, in love.
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014
#610 Carry On in Love
This time of the year can be particularly challenging emotionally.
Embodying our wise heart-mind, being kind to ourselves and all those we touch, is the best we can do.
When at times we can't, may we have the wisdom and humility to reach out for help.
Leaving fear behind, we carry on, together, in love.
Embodying our wise heart-mind, being kind to ourselves and all those we touch, is the best we can do.
When at times we can't, may we have the wisdom and humility to reach out for help.
Leaving fear behind, we carry on, together, in love.
Friday, 14 November 2014
#588 To Evolve OR Blame? - THAT is the Question!
As we start to practice sitting meditation, all sorts of apparent impediments arise: mental, physical & emotional irritations that we blame on the practice, teacher, room, time of day, hunger, noise, weather, work, our own ineptitude ... We find all sorts of excuses for not being able to just sit still.
Mindfulness practice is a structured process that can enable us, initially, to simply remain aware and accepting while sitting comfortably - how stress-free can we get! The more we train, the more able we are to rest in awareness during increasingly challenging "real-world" situations.
Paradoxically, the more completely we let go of excessive self-concern ("noisy ego"), the greater our freedom and true happiness. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a powerful study of this universal human process of transformation or evolution of consciousness / heart-mind, found outside of, as well as within, all wisdom traditions.
Mindfulness practice is a structured process that can enable us, initially, to simply remain aware and accepting while sitting comfortably - how stress-free can we get! The more we train, the more able we are to rest in awareness during increasingly challenging "real-world" situations.
Paradoxically, the more completely we let go of excessive self-concern ("noisy ego"), the greater our freedom and true happiness. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a powerful study of this universal human process of transformation or evolution of consciousness / heart-mind, found outside of, as well as within, all wisdom traditions.
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Saturday, 16 November 2013
#437 Wholeness includes Everything
"Wholeness is based on a balance & integration of opposites, not on getting rid of what we don't like. When we feel an inconsistency or conflict between inner experience and outer expression, between persona and shadow, fear and love, life and death, body and mind, or any other pairs of opposites, we experience pain and tension. According to the ancient Hindu scriptures, the Upanishads, wherever there is other there is fear, for fear is born of duality. We can be released from fear only when we recognize the unity of opposites and learn to balance the polarities of emotional experience in a context of healing awareness."
Vaughn F. The Inward Arc. Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality. iUniverse.com Inc, Lincoln NE, 1995, 2000.
Vaughn F. The Inward Arc. Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality. iUniverse.com Inc, Lincoln NE, 1995, 2000.
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