This dissertation explores the role of present-moment awareness in psychological healing and transformation through the lens of non-dual contemplative practice and its intersection with psychotherapy.
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- Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t
Trauma, Transcendence, and the Beauty that Breaks Us Open – Integral Life
When we are no longer identified with the idea of ourselves, the entire relationship between subject and object, knower and known, undergoes a sudden and revolutionary change. It becomes a real relationship, a mutuality in which the subject creates the object just as much as the object creates the subject. The knower no longer feels himself to be
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Noticing awareness and recognizing that it has no edges, boundaries, center, or location can help one wake up from the dream of being a separate, limited, problem-filled individual, and this noticing itself is what one is, allowing them to respond to situations with clarity and wisdom rather than reacting with fear and confusion 08:23