ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self
To support our awakening:
1. Tune in to your instrument - develop relational rituals first with yourself, then with energies beyond you
2. Work with that instrument to build familiarity and depth to hold the paradox and weight, to be coherence and stillness amidst the maelstrom
3. Connect with Spirit, tune in, and merge
4. Finding a community to pract
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“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be
done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can
shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.
The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”
From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI
The most powerful journeys we must take are the ones we are not ready for and cannot prepare for.
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My belief is that tears, although they look like a mere emotive reaction, are much more: a deeply free action that many do not enjoy. They proceed from deep inside, where we are most truly ourselves. Tears reveal the depths at which and from which we care.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
When was the last time you shed tears for the planet? For another human? For yourself?
How do you know what you truly care about if you have not cried for it.
We can’t shed tears for those or that outside of us unless we can shed tears for ourselves.
“Show me your original face
The one you had before your parents were born
Being born is like being invited to a grand masquerade. As babies, we begin the journey as pure presence, undefined and open. But soon, we are given a name, a role, a place in the world. A mask is placed upon us, crafted by our culture, family, and ex
“The Japanese American Zen master Shunryu Suzuki
said, “Life is like getting on a small boat that is about to sail
out to sea and sink.’”
Impermanence (and change as a function of impermanence) is the one truth .
You are impermanent even from moment to moment. Right now you are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Each moment is not just a death, but a renewal, a rebirth.
Do you still choose to get on the boat and live a life?
Let us visualize the waves on the ocean, several waves appearing on the surface of the ocean. Some waves are big, there are those that are small, and each wave seems to have its own life. A wave may have ideas like, “I am a wave. I am only a wave among many waves. I am smaller than the other wave. I am less beautiful. I last less than the other wav... See more
Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River
bridging 2-3: noticing our individuality and our unity, like the wave in water.
While living the life of a wave, a wave can live a life of the water.
Ask people to sit in those different perspectives - the silence that hears your thoughts is the water. Thoughts are the wave
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the capacity of being there body and mind united. When you drink your orange juice, drink mindfully and you will enjoy your juice because you are really there one hundred per cent.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River
Thich Nhat Hanh
And it should be effortless. The habit energy is struggle. The natural state is effortless ease - to enjoy the miracle of that moment.
Our practice is based on the insight of nonduality—anger is not an enemy. Both mindfulness and anger are ourselves. Mindfulness is there not to suppress or fight against anger, but to recognize and take care of it—like a big brother helping a younger brother. So the energy of anger is recognized and embraced tenderly by the energy of mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Understanding emotions
Thich Nhat Hanh
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