Natural Well-Being perspectives by James Waite
Exploring what it's like to serve truth in everyday aware living.
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It’s our nature to be happy! As the name suggests, well-being is natural – that is, it’s a normal condition (if not an average one for most of humanity) and not just in the domain of some sages and saints. Our shared nature is one of balance and harmony, where suffering is not imagined or [...]
Why I write. There is within, an urge urging to release the confined meaning of words and ceaseless sighing. To free “freedom” from speculations about what it is. To explore that sadness of failure, that false gladness, that self-identity you’ve worked so longingly to construct, that fabrication of what real pleasure might be, that self-image [...]
Here’s the “first pouring” of an inspiration loosely titled OBVERSES . First, let’s define what we – and Websters’ – mean, with the word Obverse (1) “Turned towards one.” (2) Constituting an opposite aspect of the same fact. (3) Got by observation. (4) The side of everything normally presented to view. And the impulse right [...]
Of course, a rose is a rose by any other name, but what is a rose? What is Self? Let’s start with a rose. Perhaps we’ll find it’s very much like our Self! It’s natural enough to turn to the mind for what it believes to be true about this knowing of a rose. Turning [...]
There is an old saying:”A thousand little moments make one dance!” That particular Zen saying expresses what it means to be truly alive – to be alertly aware, and aware of that awareness. Indeed that is the dance! And as the dance of spirit finds form in this writing, so too we may discover a [...]
The self-sense of being a critter called “me”, is a fiction – a story invented with a learned language; a fiction invented by mind and supported by feelings like fear and hope. Psychological fear is a man-made invention. Hope too, is an invention…both ensue from a mind in search of security. A mind looking to [...]
It seems the roads to truth are many, yet they all eventually lead to the same ultimate need to know “Who am I really?”… “What is this self I call me?” In my decades of consciousness studies, that question was never really directly raised or addressed, partly because it was too scary! And partly because [...]
Truth is nuclear! In the middle of our ordinary daily living, truth may profoundly present itself subtly and powerfully. Potently and compellingly. It’s disguised often as an idea or ideal; but that which “rings true” is not discovered in personal thoughts or feelings. Most often it’s a simple and silent seeing that brings us to [...]
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” Henri Matisse Explore a flower, hold it in your gaze, in your hand, smell it, touch it, see it with reverence that acknowledges its very being and the beauty of that. Then you will simultaneously contact that same being which you also are. Not [...]
It’s now early 2012, and remnants of an old song float out of nowhere into my mind: “It’s life’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know life at all.” Ah, Time. The wistful remembrance of times past is ushered into our minds more and more as we age. That’s the beauty of Time; we get [...]