“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
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 […]
Rich or poor, the man or woman who has no space in inner daily living is impoverished. ~ There’s a deepening exploration of daily aware experiencing in terms of what we’ll call ‘spontaneous living‘. I’ve felt for months now a growing movement toward less and less inner and outer restrictions, reactions, patterns, structures, formulas, and […]
Words can ‘speak’ from mind-to-mind and/or, in some seemingly rare context, from awareness-to-awareness. It’s essential to directly see that what one IS, is before and beyond any and all body/mind form and function as ‘experience.’ One has to look beyond all the mind’s binary, conceptually repetitive, root-binding beliefs at the ‘looking’, not the looker, so […]
~ This note is Part One of an ongoing and never-ending observation of awareness; it’s an exploratory word-smithing of a wordless arising from a subtle watchfulness of daily aware living. Together, let’s go behind the mind and beyond the word’s realm of supposed ‘knowledge’ to perhaps encounter an inner direct intimacy with the unknown. We’ll […]
In truth, if we’re not astonished, perhaps we’re not looking. In aware living, I’ve recently noted a constant, gentle, underlying surprise as life presents itself; there’s a moving into, as it were, a grateful, non-engaged attention, a receptive balancing that curiously and joyfully accommodates the vital flow of what’s actually happening as it’s happening. There’s […]
It’s interesting to recognize that real ‘clarity’ does not come from the mind, with words conceptually understood. It arises in empty awareness, in not knowing but discovering, now; in not reacting, but acting. In love, loving.By way of commentary and speaking psychologically, not dismissing functional utility of Mind or AI, I’m noting that, for me, […]
Ah, words and images! Oh, how they convey, portray, and betray, yes? In truth, words are always and only about words. They’re freighted with trainloads of heavy, accumulated meanings, implications, intonations, indications, preferences and denials…they’re loaded and gain their ‘weight’ not so much from their meaning as from belief in that meaning. So it may […]
A beautiful hike up and away from the hustle of the day inspired these views you too may enjoy. 🙂 ~ Seems there is relative reality, time/space, and that is ‘moving,’ changing, appearing/disappearing, so not ultimately real, and there is in non-personal fact only timeless, changeless absolute reality – its merely conceptual descriptors are ‘awareness’, […]