http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress Meditation and non-Duality for Everyman Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:20:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness The Great Perfection, Root Dzogchen Text by Padmasambhava, Guru Rinpoche By Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava 1.   Here is contained "Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness," this being a Direct Introduction to the State of Intrinsic Awareness, From "The Profound Teaching of Self-Liberation in the Primordial State of ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/10/the-great-perfection-root-dzogchen-text-from-padmasambhava-guru-rinpoche/   A ROOT TEXT FOR THE PRECIOUS GELUG/KAGYÜ TRADITION OF MAHAMUDRA The Main Road of the Triumphant Ones by The First Panchen Lama Lozang Chökyi Gyeltsen   Namo mahamudraya: Homage to Mahamudra, the Great Seal of Reality. I respectfully bow ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/10/mahamudra-root-text-by-the-first-panchen-lama/ Some suggestions about Self remembering Assume your subject, yourself, is a person you know absolutely nothing about, even if you are an an old-hand or so-called expert like me. It has to be absolutely fresh every time. Consider every moment like you are witnessing the birth of an entire new universe ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/07/suggestions-about-stalking-and-self-remembering/ Here I am setting in Ojai, gazing out the window at an expanse of green leaves. The air was smoky last night, due to the large fire about fifty miles east of here. Gazing at the trees I am reminded of talks with Krishnamurti, under the Oaks here in Ojai. K. (as ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/07/the-fragmented-self-humpty-dumpty-sat-on-a-wall/ Nancy Langmuir, the leader of my Gurdjieff Work group taught me how to "See". I know that now. She would constantly challenge me to face the Unknowable, the parts of myself hidden in shadow. Although I at first found this alien and terrifying, later I learned that it was ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/07/learning-to-see/ The idea of non-Identification is a stream that runs deeply in Buddhism and Non-Dualistic Vendanta. So what is Identification exactly?  Identification is core concept in Advaita Vedanta, and also a Fourth Way Idea.  Briefly one could say that it is "allowing oneself to be defined by others and wrong views". Allowing ourselves ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/06/identification-the-core-problem-of-mankind-2/ The "Work of Attention", as Reality, in the Here and Now is to go beyond dualism, beyond conditioning. To truly "BE" in the Here and Now, is to live in a state beyond the dualistic nature of subject and object, I and thou. That is ... there is ... There is no You ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/06/the-work-of-attention-is-beyond-dualism/ When we start a sincere practice, if we must be honest with ourselves. Honest as in beyond any sort of self-deception. Honesty is the beginning of Objectivity. Most of us, are very rarely truly Objective. Objectivity is one of the hidden doorways to the Self. ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/06/secrets-are-hidden-in-plain-sight/ Our practice of meditation, self inquiry and inner work must be grounded in true Compassion. Ultimately selflessness is the most practical attitude. It derives the most benefit or happiness for the individual. One could say it is the pinnacle of self-interest! Paradoxically, the most practically self interested person, the one most successful ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/06/the-practical-nature-of-compassion-and-selflessness/ Empower yourself! Tell yourself this from time to time ... Right now, this moment, I confer upon myself the power to make decisions, right or wrong about what is right for me. No one else truly understands what I need! The seeker has to perform the operations and look for the conditions ... http://awarenessplus.com/wordpress/2008/04/empower-yourself/