I’ve come to the realization that Awakening is hard work. Oh, what do I really mean? It’s not easy, that’s for sure. Well ok, when you get it, then it’s the easiest thing, in so far as this mind-dominant state in which we typically dwell is excruciating, and not native. In a group meditation the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Eckhart’
April 20, 2009 – A Work in Process
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Awakening, Eckhart, sleep on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
March 8, 2009 – WONEI
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Bleeding Sun, Eckhart, Hafiz, kombucha, Practicing The Power of Now, Presence, WONEI on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been failing largely to practice PRESENCE in the past 20′ish hours. I’ve been stricken with a spell of Weekness-Oriented Neurohormonal Imbalance (WONEI…a phrase from one of my teacher’s books, Bleeding Sun). Honestly I can’t remember precisely what it means, but it sure feels like WONEI. (And WONEI feels like it sounds.) I think it [...]
September 5, 2008
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Being, consciousness, Eckhart, human, the power of now on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Picking up The Power of Now (yet again, a friend’s copy!) this afternoon, I was struck by the very first line, and had trouble paying attention past that, stuck as I was: “I have little use for the past and rarely think about it…” Being human, I instantaneously compared my own way of being to [...]
