I’m not familiar with mindfulness, but neither concentration nor contemplation nor being open is quite the ticket to achieving what the masters point to. Transcending our conditioning is a very subtle technique, since our habit patterns are so trusted and seemingly unchangeable. The breakthrough is when we see pure awareness a bit clearer than usual. Then it becomes possible to let the awareness take over and pull our self inward, toward increasing peace and happiness. Once well begun, it is half done. After that much is learned, we simply repeat and watch as life improves. The keywords are ‘natural’ and ‘effortless’.
Kathryn Oliver’s energy comes forward in her paintings and moves me. Her work is admirable and will for sure leave a resonance in the work I will keep creating. Deeply touched. Peacefully, Sylvia.
Tessa and Carmel are so precious! A clear seeing of two beautiful beings, one of a person and the other, a companion friend. Thank you for sharing these photos with us!
It’s early morning and I’m sitting outside in my beautiful garden looking at nature and feeling it’s energy… I’ve came across your poem and I would like to use it on my home page. I want to ask you if I can. And of course I would give you credit.
A nice easy formula…one – two – three:
“One is the Absolute, two is consciousness, and three is space. Where there was no knowledge ‘I am’ that is number one, later on there is the sense ‘I am’ that is number two, and then there is space – number three.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Yes, Bill! It’s often when we catch ourselves stopping and perhaps watch what’s being seen. That’s presence calling us home.
Thank you for stopping by. Lovingly, Sylvia
Although we cannot phenomenally discover what we are, we know beyond any doubt that we are. There is also no doubt that ‘that which we are’ is aware that it is and is intuitively aware that it is real and that there is only one reality. That is knowable (non phenomenally) beyond any doubt. It is a noumenal knowingness. This knowingness is the glimpse into reality. I/awareness know beyond any doubt that I am, and that I am aware. (Being and knowing go hand in hand).
The unknowable is that which appears.
The doubt arises when I know a tree, a bodily sensation or an image. What appears to be is not necessarily what it is. One could be hallucinating or could be under a hypnotic state.
As long as we confuse the knowable (awareness) with the unknowable (appearances), we remain in ignorance.
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