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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 |
Because in the heart
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? |
KINDNESS & COMPASSION
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Verses from Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Way Four Immeasurables from the Unfettered Mind website Seven Points of Mind Training from the Unfettered Mind website Longchenpa’s prayer of compassion |
Compassion is the willingness to play in the |
MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION
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Motivation: First Things First |
Poetry is news that stays news. |
PRESENCE
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Mahamudra texts by the great siddhas of the tradition |
We are such stuff as dreams are made of... ~ The Tempest Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. |
MOVING
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Moving in Awareness: The Eight Pieces of Brocade 18 Movements of Taiji Qigong (Shibashi) Standing Like a Tree (Zhan Zhuang) Movement Practices for Meditators by Jeff Bickford |
"Yogi, what time is it?" someone asked. |
INTERACTING
STUDYING
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Reading list corresponding to the chapters in Wake Up To Your Life by Ken McLeod |
The end of all meeting is parting. |
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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 |
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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, ~ Gotami Sutta (AN 8.53) |