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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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 (basic meditation instructions) If sitting is painful, take a look at Jeff Bickford’s exercises for flexibility |
LOOKING
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Awareness Through Breathing (Anapanasati) Stability (Shamatha) and Clarity (Vipashyana) Opening to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Cycles of Reactivity and Attention |
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KINDNESS & COMPASSION
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Verses from Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Way Longchenpa’s prayer of compassion Forty One Verses to Cultivate Awakenening Mind Seven Points of Mind Training from the Unfettered Mind website |
MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION
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Motivation: First Things First |
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PRESENCE
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Mahamudra texts by the great siddhas of the tradition |
MOVING
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Moving in Awareness: The Eight Pieces of Brocade Standing like a tree (zhan zhuang) Movement Practices for Meditators by Jeff Bickford |
INTERACTING
STUDYING
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Reading list corresponding to the chapters in Wake Up To Your Life by Ken McLeod |
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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 the War Against Nature |