Recent Posts Tagged With 'consciousness'

• My Look Into Karma

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 00:00 in thoughts, meditation, zen, consciousness, karma, zazen

    I was recently talking to a friend of mine about karma and he asked me what I felt karma was and how it fitted in with my Zen practice… I see karma as something that’s constantly unfolding with the way I think, and my karma whateve...

• Meditate to Meditate

  Posted on Saturday July 19th, 2008 at 02:46 in meditation, change, consciousness

  Merely wanting whatever’s in my consciousness to change, is desire. Desire steals my awareness from the moment of now. When I meditate, I therefore need to meditate to meditate, not to seek change. ...

• Empty Space

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 03:33 in mind, ego, analysis, consciousness, paradox, judgement, at one, empty mind

  At-one-ness is realised at a level where mind [ego] does not interfere by analysis and judgement. It make take many lifetimes to realise and exist in the emptiness of at-one-ness or less time than the blinking of an eye.If I judge or analyse when or ...

• Not Me

  Posted on Friday May 30th, 2008 at 08:31 in experience, consciousness, illusion, accept

  As draw external conditions into my consciousness, they will become part of my experience; part of me. If I treat them as problems to be solved, I make them separate from myself and confusion can manifest. The more separate problems I create in this ...

• Expand Consciousness

  Posted on Thursday April 24th, 2008 at 02:54 in understanding, consciousness, perception, seeing

  There is an understanding beyond our everyday perception. This can be referred to as "true knowledge" or "seeing". As I look around me, what do I see? My desk perhaps. But that it the label I assign to it. If I ask myself intensely, what is it that I...

• Present-Past Awareness.

  Posted on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 03:48 in meditation, time, mind, consciousness, past, i am, moment of now

  Why do I live in the past when there is only now? Looking at any thing, thought or idea, I am drawing on my past experience of it. My mind obeys its conditioning, working like a machine pouring out strings of past associations about whatever I am con...

• Being Who We Are

  Posted on Saturday November 10th, 2007 at 05:42 in spiritual, consciousness, being, all one

  If we are fortunate to experience a higher state of consciousness and are touched by the essence or spirit of who we really are, we can enhance that experience by sharing it with others – by giving it away, by being with them who we really are. To ...

• Opposition

  Posted on Thursday October 11th, 2007 at 03:03 in meditation, mind, ego, analysis, consciousness, judgement, opposite, empty mind

  It seems that by our own analysis, by our own judgements we trap ourselves into a state of reduced consciousness. If we can just accept and observe, without judgement, without analysis, we can realise a higher state of consciousness. In zazen (medit...