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Jun 25 2016

Killing Me Softly

For many years I thought meditation was about “feeling good”. And by integrating the focus on spacious emptiness, meditation came to life. It is now more like a journey. And yes, it still feels good, but it is not about the “good feeling”. It is about the journey. The constant changes are happening. There is no ground to stand on.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: bliss, liberation, mahayana, samadhi, vajrayana

Jun 18 2016

Do I Have To? Heeding your Calling

What we say ‘I have to’ to is our path to awakeness. It is the ‘voice’ of the daemon, our inner guide, pressing us to grow and unfold into what we can and should become. Everybody has this voice in their being, the question is whether one is listening or not.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: arisings, daemon, discriminatingmind, liberation, motivationresistance

Dec 19 2015

Karma Yoga, Path for the Western Mind – The Easiest Transition to Make

How do we bring the path of awakening to our everyday lives? Well the truth is, we need training. We need training on how to bring spacious, blissful, non-clinging awareness into our hectic and busy lives.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: compassion, dharmatraining, karmayoga, liberation, service

Oct 31 2015

Busy Life? The Practice of Letting Go Is a Choice

You can’t get wisdom from knowing more; you can only get wisdom from learning more and then surrendering to the unknown to integrate it. Letting go into the unknown is what’s hard for people, because it seems like defeat.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Meditation Tagged With: 4foundationsofmindfulness, liberation, mindfulness, motivationresistance, wisdom

Sep 05 2015

The Challenges: For Lightning-Fast Spiritual Progress

So what would happen if we turned the “me” thing upside down? That is if we acted out “not-me” in order to free ourselves from our habitual identity. We call this action “the Challenges!” It’s a way to determine our own karma.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog Tagged With: 5hindrances5faculties, challenges, desiremind, ego, liberation, vulnerability, wheelofsamsara

May 18 2015

The Benefits of Holistic Clearing

Holistic Clearing was specifically created as an “anti-paralytic practice.” There are many reasons that reasonable, talented and intelligent people get “paralyzed.”

Filed Under: Blog, Meditation Tagged With: habits, happiness, liberation, mindfulness

Apr 04 2015

The Most Important Work You’ll Ever Do

From the point of view of classic Buddhist philosophy, there are two types of liberation: ceto-vimutti, liberation of the heart, and paññā-vimutti, liberation of the mind (insight or wisdom).

Filed Under: Blog, Meditation Tagged With: conditioning, consciousness, freedom, liberation, mindfulness, skandas, wisdom, wombstages

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