Posted in Observations on Sep 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
How often do events and daily drama trap us in reactivity?
Reactivity seems to always engage us in some kind of doing response. In fact, the reactivity itself is a doing. When we react, we’re always taking the world and ourselves to be something other than they are – and this is a subtle form of doing. Of [...]
Posted in Observations on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
What is suchness?
Suchness – as it is. The flower as a flower.
Almost everyone believes they see the flower as it is, but in fact there is very little perceived by the normal mind that is appearing in suchness. This is due to all the filters, projections and reification happening from the normal everyday mind.
Suchness is [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Dec 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
Primordial consciousness, the non-differentiated knowingness, is the freedom that is needed for a state of the mind to be experienced in its most expanded form. - A.H. Almaas
Posted in Observations on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday A.H. Almaas mentioned that essential presence is what transforms the consciousness.
One’s practice becomes how to stay in touch with essential presence and not about achieving any particular state of consciousnes.
Almaas said that there are very few people who can actually live from, move from, and act in essential presence though many think they do. [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. - Angela Monet
Dance of Shiva is what scientists call the dance of particles as they arise and disappear out of “quantum” foam.
Sacred Dance and the Mystery of Presencepresence in the body––the emergence of sensation,appreciation of life itself,awareness [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Apr 27th, 2007 7 Comments »
The debate goes on:
Where does life begin?
When does self-reflective consciousness begin?
Where does consciousness reside?
I do believe it has been proven that early conditioning begins in the womb as the fetus and it’s (consciousness, psyche, soul) are subjected to the mother’s responses to her experience. These responses can be emotional, energetic, physical (muscular contractions [patterns], chemical, [...]
Posted in Perceptions, Poetry on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Communion
Hot humid night
a ripened lover
engorged silky fluidity
black velvet skin
divine pheromones
fatal attraction
an immediacy
consciousness winking
at annihilation
between heaven’s
trembling thighs
emptiness and fullness
luminous dewy nectar
glistening black pearls
scintillating pink tongue
innocent intimate taste
ecstasy
The night devouring
its lover
