Demystifying Awakening: A Buddhist Path of Realization, Embodiment, and Freedom

“Produce the thought that is nowhere supported.”

and relax. When you notice your awareness has shifted away from awareness of the breath, gently and kindly return it without criticism or self-judgment.

Innate Goodness Practice › Close your eyes. Seating yourself in a comfortable position, place your hands in your lap or high on your thighs. Take a few deep belly breaths inhaling and exhaling as thoroughly as possible. Feel your feet on the ground while noticing the support of the floor in the building you are in. See if you can feel the support o

When my awareness and intuition arrived simultaneously at the source of sound, I arrived at the intersection of each of the other senses and the four intuitive markers previously placed by me. When I went to place the fifth mental marker, I deeply saw that I was not there! I was not here! Not only was there no me directing the source of the five se

While our inner foundation can shift in a big First Awakening, it then takes rigorous investigation to uncover what in us is incongruent with the truth revealed in a First Awakening.

Breath awareness meditation is quite simple in its instruction: “Breathe, and know you are breathing, right now, in the region between the nostrils and upper lip.”

I had a teacher suggest that I maintain an 80/20 rule. This means that I maintain 80 percent of my awareness on my inner processing and experiences and place, at most, 20 percent of my awareness on the person I am interacting with or other external interactions.

One of the most useful approaches to integrate your realization is to observe and monitor your behavior. It is the honest self-examination of whether you are walking your talk. I have used, and recommend to students, a spiritual journal to record daily occurrences of incongruence. The incongruences are opportunities to recognize and change our unwh

Whichever kind of concentration meditation you practice, you start by focusing on one meditative object to the exclusion of all else, and you begin to witness the functioning of your personality. Your mind shares with you all the things you need to feel comfort and have ease in the meditation.