And so to find those places where we really got that kind of energy and—not in a massively guilty or shameful or even you know fervorous way try to deconstruct it, but rather, just, in… Read More »Joy and Gratitude: A Practice in Nondual Presence
So, in one sense this is nondual meditation. We’re not focusing on something. We’re not trying to focus on something. That’s a different kind of meditation, which is fine. Nothing wrong with that. But here,… Read More »Letting Go of All Contraction
Who’s even trying to meditate? Who is meditating? Just look—see if you can find that individual. All you find is vast spacious awakeness with no friction, no impedance, no constriction at all. It’s just boundless… Read More »Openness Energy Awake
Try to find to whom the experiences are happening. All you can find are sensations arising in space and feelings moving through timeless openness. All of it is the appearance. What knows the appearance? And… Read More »The Miracle of Existence
And if you sit with this for a little while, you may notice something odd, which is that the flow of body sensation in space is not really very different than the flow of thought… Read More »Self-Liberation of Thought and All Experience
And so to come back is to open up, not to reawaken in your prison. There is no prison, you know, when just dropping the box drops the bars to the cell. So, keep coming… Read More »Deep Relaxation into Nondual Openness
From this place of awake space, uninvolved in thought, breathe in and feel the energy coming into the belly, and making the belly quite energized on the in-breath. And then, on the out-breath, instead of… Read More »Nondual Energy in the Central Channel
Who or what is it that’s making an effort, or trying to do something, or trying to find something, or trying to see or hear something? What is efforting? What is it that is doing… Read More »Awake to Your Own Awakeness
Sit like the sky, because our actual natural mind is spacious. Sit like a mountain, because it’s stable. Sit like the sun, because it’s bright and luminous, clear and sit like the ocean, because it’s… Read More »Pointing Out through Metaphor
The thinking mind is not separate from the still silent spaciousness – they co-arise. It’s only skillful means to temporarily pretend that we can separate them. But in a deeper way, we notice they are… Read More »The Paradox of Wholeness
Good. Now notice what’s underneath the stillness or inside the stillness. There is no ground there at all. It’s not that it’s nothing, because it’s not nothing, but there’s no thing there to hold onto.… Read More »Your Awakened Nature Is Right There
Notice, there’s no separate sense of self here. There’s not “me” as some kind of defined person within this. There’s just thoughts and feelings suspended over an infinite, wide awake, abyss. A vast groundlessness that… Read More »Finding the Stillness and Peace of Who You Really Are
And since what we’re doing is the activity of the bodhisattva of compassion, while we’re doing this let’s also chant the mantra of Avalokiteshvara, which we were doing before. We’ll just do it a little… Read More »Brahmaviharas and Tonglen