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Mindfulness

CREATIVE COMPREHENSION, the Horizoning of All Horizons, Gr. Nous, L. Spritus, Ch. DE or TE, G. Geist, Transcendent Being, Transcendental Ego, Maha Atman, Buddha Consciousness, Christ Consciousness, Krishna Consciousness,

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    Fretfully making, busily doing, absent the leisurely stretch that birthed Mona Lisa; heedless we run, without time for thinking’s yawning abyss: profound boredom.    Continue reading

  • Already Falling in Love

    The deluded among us who confound power with political position and happiness with wealth propagate a great confidence game, a colossal con, a great grift. They believe and would have all else believe that the great succession of their material… Continue reading

  • Intersecting Wisdom

    “Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning – I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to… Continue reading

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    “You find peace  not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,  but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading

    The Leisure to be Your Own Self

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    …As has always been said, clarity comes with the giving up of self. But what this means is that we cease to attribute selfhood to these echoes and mirror images. Otherwise we stand in a hall of mirrors, dancing hesitantly… Continue reading

  • wandering, wondering: (a)maze

    Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the… Continue reading

    wandering, wondering: (a)maze

  • Mindfulness = Emptiness

    Mindful thinking properly becomes emptiness or no-thing. This begins by the inward turn. Being now/here, there is no then/there to which you can race that will possess all the things you “need” to possess. Continue reading

    Mindfulness = Emptiness

  • Philosophical Improv with Andrew J. Taggart

    In this short YouTube video, my colleague Andrew J. Taggart explores the way in which radiance manifests itself. A Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor,  his forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, discusses the important connection between goodness and beauty. Links to follow up… Continue reading

  • Dreaming Action, Risking Curiosity

    “The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers” — William S. Burroughs “Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action — the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the… Continue reading

  • Controlled Accident

    At the heart of perennial philosophizing is an always developing mastery that we can, following Alan Watts, call “controlled accident.” Others have done far better than I could in really detailing what is meant by this oxymoronic usage. But if… Continue reading

  • Handling this Very Moment

    The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment. Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to… Continue reading

  • There’s More to Life Than Being Happy

      See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions   Meaning comes from the pursuit of more complex things than happiness   Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Happiness as we understand it today is little more than a drive to achieve temporary pleasures.… 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

  • 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