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Mindful Contemplation

  • Awake for Deathless Wisdom

    In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless. Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Ariyapariyesana Sutta Source: peace-n-kindness.tumblr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World (keithwaynebrown.com) Heart And Soul… Continue reading

  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading

  • Without a Teacher

    Having awakened to Encompassing Mindfulness, what master can make of you a mere disciple? Let-go seeking after authority: liberate this being, this self! Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on Pinterest   Continue reading

  • Freedom & the Loving Struggle

    “Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Source: etsy.com via Joni on Pinterest   Continue reading

  • Thinking Beyond Yourself

    “The time [being 36 yrs old] is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation Continue reading

  • Part or Particle of God

    Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being… Continue reading

  • The Socratic Sign

    There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within… Continue reading

  • How Brewing Coffee Can Up Cognitive Dexterity « SolsticeSon’s Celebrational Servings

    A really nice meditation on the need to change the routine using an everyday example to drive home the notion. Kudos! Start seeing your actions from an outside perspective and questioning why you do what you do. In many cases,… Continue reading

  • Recalling This Beautiful Order

    In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130120

    In harmony? No need for sages. In discord? Needing sages. Heed their answers & not the question? Needing scholars. Adopt scholarship? Tyranny of authority. Source: asianart.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120105

    Everywhere we consume & partake, seeking satisfaction. Yet only in abandoning this quest to be full do we ever achieve true abundance. Source: thevelardes.blogspot.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Frozen flow

    Source: garyschollmeier.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest As always, something eye catching from This Beautiful Order, this Embracing Lifeworld, at Master Schollmeier’s blog. Continue reading

  • Jumping to Judgment, Shipwrecked by Laughter

     “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Letting-go of Anger

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