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Noticing:Kindness Consider a cup. Its form is created for the purpose of receiving, yet when full its purpose is to give. When hugging we open our arms to give and then this same gesture in turns becomes a flow of giving and receiving. When breathing we live in a flow state of giving carbon dioxideContinue reading “Kindness”

Noticing:The Greatest Friend Meditation is one of the most nourishing activities you can do for yourself in this life. Here’s a wonderful thing I’ve come to understand through many years of practice. Life has gifted every one of us three loyal friends. Loyal Friend number one is The BreathThere in the background of your lifeContinue reading “The Greatest Friend”

Noticing Control To find, one must lose. To be born, one must die. To become connected, one must have been disconnected. To trust, one must be abandoned.Our brains interpret experience using the tool of contrast. The way we perceive objects is through the play of shadow and light. It is important to notice that perceptionContinue reading “Control”

Noticing:Interconnection The waking mind spends all day sorting and cataloguing and tasting subjects. We are deeply immersed in the movie of the self. It is a seamless identity reinforcing process. We are so invested in believing in the meanings and feeling the emotions invested in the meanings of our thoughts that we don’t notice theContinue reading “Interconnection”

Noticing: Shame Shame is a symptom of the Problem of me. There’s a few ways to suffer when enthralled in the Problem. Common words and phrases from the shame experience are: Failure, not good enough, worthless, wrong, broken. We all share these and suffer from them.Part of the culture that perpetuates shame is that we’veContinue reading “Shame”

Noticing:Rejection and insecurity Sartre famously wrote the line ‘hell is other people’. “By the mere appearance of the Other,” says Sartre in Being and Nothingness, “I am put in the position of passing judgment on myself as on an object, for it is as an object that I appear to the Other.”The creation of aContinue reading “Rejection and insecurity”

Noticing:The power of symbols We use languages made up of symbols, symbol systems. There’s a zen saying about ‘the finger pointing to the moon’. This teaching helps us remember that the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. Language symbols point to the moon, but they are not the moon. The nature ofContinue reading “The power of symbols”

Noticing:The unsolvable problem of me Every human is born with an inherent freedom. It is your Attention. I use capitalisation to point to the sense of your Attention as your true pronoun, the true name of your self. During this era of the attention economy, our attention is monetised, our intuitive body experience is enslavedContinue reading “The unsolvable problem of me”

Noticing:Connection + disconnection Building the habit of meditation gifts us with Connection. Connection is the home that travels everywhere with you, Connection ‘within’ facilitates connection in ‘the world’.Disconnection is the suffering that is experienced when we become wholly obsessed with the activities of the mind identity. The intuition or ‘Body Knowing’ that is imbued byContinue reading “Home”

A person’s habits become their habitat. Habits are repeated (learned) behaviours that have become ingrained as beliefs. Once these habits are ingrained we cease to notice they were at one time learned, and these beliefs become our axis of relating to the world, they inform the climate of our identity experience and thus we liveContinue reading “Welcome to your Habit@”