natural awareness
may all be healthy, happy, at ease in their body, at home in the world
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natural awareness may all be healthy, happy, at ease in their body, at home in the world |
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These resources are offered freely |
OVERVIEWS
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People can lose their lives in libraries. |
SITTING & SETTLING
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Buddhist Meditation: What & Why Sitting Easy, Resting in Attention (posture) Video: Sitting Posture from StillSitting.com (also has good buckwheat cushions for sale) If sitting is painful, take a look at Jeff Bickford’s exercises for flexibility |
Make sure there is no wrangling |
LOOKING
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Awareness Through Breathing (Anapanasati) Stability (Shamatha) and Clarity (Vipashyana) Opening to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Awareness of Sensations & Sensations 2 Cycles of Reactivity and Attention |
What do I know? ~ Montaigne Because in the heart of darkness Your vision will become clear |
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits What is this mind? |
KINDNESS & COMPASSION
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Verses of kindness & compassion A Prayer to Empty the Six Realms Shantideva’s Verses of Kindness & Compassion Four Immeasurables from the Unfettered Mind website Seven Points of Mind Training from the Unfettered Mind website Longchenpa’s prayer of compassion |
may all beings be safe, healthy, happy, and well,
kindness : kinship compassion : suffering with comfort : strengthen sympathy : feel together |
MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION
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Motivation: First Things First |
Poetry is news that stays news. "Yogi, what time is it?" |
Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing -- there’s nothing to be done for such people. |
PRESENCE
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Mahamudra texts by the great siddhas of the tradition |
We are such stuff as dreams are made of... Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. |
MOVING
INTERACTING
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Five Mindfulness Trainings (Five Precepts) Notes on Gregory Kramer’s Insight Dialogue method Practice group dynamics and structures Four levels of structural dynamics in groups Internal and external supports for structure and freedom Organizational issues for practice groups Guidance on Finding a Buddhist Teacher or Organization Purpose of Regular Meetings by Idries Shah Twenty Essential Rules for the Zen Community by Baizhang Three Ways of Looking at Paying for Spiritual Teachings by Franca Leeson Seven Languages for Transformation by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey |
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
The end of all meeting is parting. |
STUDYING
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Reading list corresponding to Wake Up To Your Life by Ken McLeod |
When you study, study everything under the sun. |
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There is a tame, and also a wild, side to the human mind. The tame side, like a farmer's field, has been disciplined and cultivated to produce a desired yield. It is useful but limited. The wild side is larger, deeper, more complex, and though it cannot be fully known, it can be explored... It has landscapes and creatures within it that will surprise us. It can refresh us and scare us. Wild mind reflects the larger truth of our ancient selves, of our ancient animal and spiritual selves... The wildness gives heart, courage, love, spirit, danger, compassion, skill, fierceness, and sweetness -- all at once -- ~ Gary Snyder, Writers and |
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The wind whistles in the bamboo and the bamboo dances. ~ Dhyana master Huong Hai (1627-1715) |
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Gotami, the qualities of which you may know, "These qualities lead to passion, not to dispassion; to being fettered, not to being unfettered; to accumulating, not to shedding; to self-aggrandizement, not to modesty; to discontent, not to contentment; to entanglement, not to seclusion; to laziness, not to aroused persistence; to being burdensome, not to being unburdensome": You may definitely hold, "This is not the Dhamma, this is not the Vinaya, this is not the Teacher’s instruction." ~ Gotami Sutta (AN 8.53) |
Cutting Through by Machik Lapdrön An utter mystery — it can't be named. Supple and free — all sense of "I" is gone. Totally transparent — emotional reactions cannot take hold. Radiantly clear — knowing, free from any fixation, inside or out. Vividly present — direct awareness, not attaching to anything. Translated by Ken McLeod |