“In aware living, there’s a curious delight in constantly learning here and now – not to know, but to understand, not to become but to be; to live well and truly in harmony with what is, as it presents, here. To not react but to act from the goodness of our common nature. To love, yes 🙂 ** You’re also invited to visit Facebook:
by James Waite
What one IS is seen when one lovingly dismisses the mind’s conditioned and cultivated personal fears as they arise in awareness. ~There are two kinds of fear: Instinctive – food, clothing, and shelter fear arising from our body-born insecurities – and Psychological, mind-made fear. The first is cellular, physical, essential, and best addressed with care […]
DAWNINGS: The Last Ideal. Here’s the first chapter of my unpublished novel exploring living in both its apparent dual, personal, and non-dual modes. Also, here’s the Intro, and an invitation to read, comment, and share. Love, and be well https://jameswaite2.substack.com/p/dawnings-the-last-ideal ~ In the telling of this tale, there’s a wandering, wondering, and weaving of […]
~ An insightful poem by Heloisa Moura 😉 “In pure seeing, there is no seer apart from the seen.” Jean Klein ~* The Seeing Without a Seer. Look at what is here before the mind names it. A color appears. A sound arises. Light touches the eyes. There is seeing. Then thought says, I am […]
Life passes – or, more accurately, it seems we pass it – with most of us, most of the time, focused on the gross – the conflicts and contradictions manufactured by our noisy, conditioned minds. You know, the beliefs, desires, and fears that keep us head down, heart closed, and often dimly despairing, if not […]
Reflections on living, aging, and reality. ~ Timeless awareness, like meditation & love, is not a personal effort; there’s no chooser; it’s a new dimension, freely happening:) ~ In aware living, there’s an unattached, intimate body/brain experiencing, a delight & wonder in unknown being 🙂 ~ The history of war is the history of belief; […]
~* The whole of it all is sometimes overwhelming when the reality of being suddenly presents. Whilst sitting here to perhaps write something, the title above popped into my head and evoked a smile of recognition related to a recent errand to buy some light bulbs in town; it touches subtly on aware living, on […]
Objects don’t have beauty; beauty has objects. There is beauty with & without objects. There seems to be a relative, conditioned, personalized ‘beauty’ and…in reality, pure, unconditioned, non-personalized beauty, like love, peace, and joy, that is innately, existentially, absolutely foundational. The various culturally conditioned mind’s descriptions and dissections of a frog do not tell us […]
It’s a ‘fool’s errand’ to attempt to describe the reality of awareness, with symbolic words but here we go, again. 😉 One is already aware – it’s one’s natural, timeless being behind one’s apparent sentient ‘existence’ in time. The awareness (of that timeless beingness) has, for all, been glimpsed – most often in pre-literate childhood […]
The mind pretends to ‘know’ but it is actually only a prejudicial collection of symbolic, representative words, believed. “What IS”, aka changeless awareness, reality, is not a body/mind culturally conditioned, changeful, and interpretive ‘experience’ with its opinions called ‘knowledge’. The mind pretends to ‘know,’ but it is actually only a prejudicial collection of symbolic, representative […]
“Freedom is the capacity to look at a psychological fact without distortion. That freedom is at the beginning, not at the end… one removes psychological resistances by observing the fact, and not allowing the mind to be caught in unreal, ideational, theoretical issues. When you are confronted with a fact, there is no possibility of […]