Sublime

Dwelling meditatively in the different and expanded sense of self that the process of inquiry opens will make it less likely that habitual self-views are so easily reestablished once this particular experience ends.

Showering is accidental meditation. Sitting quietly is direct meditation.

Enlightenment is not a peak from which you descend over time. It is a plateau from which you ascend, further and further as the months, years, and decades pass.

• Reggie Ray


• Loch Kelly


• Judith Blackstone


• My Somatic Reson

next-level practices—awareness of awareness, effortless mindfulness, and heart mindfulness—offer similar benefits in terms of stress relief and focus, they’re primarily designed to relieve the root of suffering caused by ego-identification and to help us access our natural potential for joy, wellbeing, and living from an embodied flow state.

To study The Way of Liberation teachings is to study yourself. To study yourself does not mean to add more knowledge to your cluttered brain’s ideas about yourself, but to remove all of the customary defining characteristics you usually associate self with: name, race, gender, occupation, social status, past, as well as all of the psychological jud

Forty-five years ago, I was studying languages and philosophy in graduate school, and I had never done any meditation practice. If somebody had said to me, “Several decades from now, you will be stating in print that the Judeo-Christian concept of the Holy Spirit, the martial arts concept of qi, and the Buddhist concept of anicca are related,” I pr

meditation techniques, ethics, and alignment principles that help guide us, depending on where we are within the features of the landscape, so that we can wake up to the landscape itself, only to see that landscape and practitioner are nothing other than relative categories and that the path of yoga moves beyond such categories as it ripens.

Mindfulness sees things as they really are