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Sounds like a religion id be into

Given to us by our creator God thank you God for our senses and your beauty around us that we can enjoy

It is reported that these words "Come, come whoever you are...." are the words of Rumi. Inwardly we can see that they may also be applied to all the stuff within us that is still identified with separation and has yet come to know it is loved. The pithy saying of one teacher was "better out than in"; meaning better it come up and be acknowledged and allowed to be good compost for the ground of our being, rather than to remain as a kind of "unconscious motivator" that colors and biases our perception and therefore our behavior. It is also reported that Rumi said, "The ground of your being welcomes (some say "accepts" or "receives") your compost and grows beauty." We could say that the stillness of sitting allow us to recognize the ground of our being and to it we can submit all such contents of mind that drift and 'wander about", or "worships" all kinds of things by giving them our undivided attention and falling in identification with them and, lastly, 'the lover of leaving' is that within us that as of yet is not able to bear the present moment. Why is it said "ours is not a caravan of despair"? One reason it involves people who have realized the Oneness of Reality to some significant extent and know that even despair can be submitted to the ground of our being and grow beauty. On bearing the present moment (slight paraphrase): Chogyam Trungpa said: 'Remain with the non-verbal or felt sense of the groundlessness of the present situation without retreating to the seemingly safe territory of conceptualization'. Of course we can readily see that the practice of sitting is needed to see clearly what this means and how it can be of benefit to us learning to not just go with or succumb to the reactions in daily life but to actually allow this reactive energy of life to unmask itself and to serve to feed the presence of our presence into the present. It is the same attitude that we learn to have toward our arising thoughts, emotions of our experiencing as we sit on the cushion.

If the reality is that 'form is emptiness and emptiness is form', then the home that is always here that we are coming back to now, coming into the refuge of practice of coming back to this body here, this body that appears as just form but in reality is emptiness. I heard a teacher once say: "People often think that stillness is an emptiness with nothing in it. It is the fullest thing of all, the fertile womb or fertile void if you like those words. The reality of the form in itself is like a vortex that helps the unmanifest manifest. The stillness is not a nothingness nor is it a somethingness. But only in that open stillness can we ever really hear. And we can talk and still be still.

❤ Peace is available instantly for us as one as we meditate. Guided meditation is very useful. There is a voice in my silence which becomes my voice, our voice. Happy presence to all. Thank you so much for the meditations

The Way has been a refuge today. Reflecting on the difference between acceptance and indifference. 🤔

Strange how strange I landed on this page... Life's little treasures!!

Jill Bolte Taylor. My stroke of insight. Worth reading. Loving The Way App!

Love you Henry!

Thank you!

And that is is it

Fate brought me here for sure❤

Loving The Way App!! Thank you sir!

Having felt, sensed the peace which is always within is the greatest gift ever. It is available anywhere anytime in abundance. We do need reminders ❤

It's so difficult to let go, to quiet the mind. Thank you for the reminder of what we are missing.

This is beautiful thank you Henry

Never thought of it that way and I Love it! ♥️ And I love you too Henry 🌻

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Thank you, Henry. Your guidence on Waking Up has helped me for years 🧘‍♀️

I've been listening to you on Waking up. Thank you 👍

And The Way app a useful tool so well presented

I feel like I found a gem when I heard you on Waking up app. Now I’m finishing up the 3rd retreat on your app The Way and hoping I can make it to Mountain Cloud in October for your retreat. 🙏🏻 I agree I feel like you should have so many followers. What a blessing to find you. ❤

Another wonderful talk. Henry is so inspiring and accessible. Thank you!

Would it also be helpful to say that attention is like the Tao. Relative attention has the two aspects of active (yang) and receptive (ying). The impulse to take action ordinarily carries a mainly unnoticed or unconscious sense of separation. When we act or try to take action to change our experiencing in this way, there can only be the repetition of the pattern of separation. Maybe the action is in larger context yet fundamentally it is still the pattern of separation. The science or knowledge of ecology has taught us that if we take action on "the ecology", if this action is not aligned with the whole, it produces a kind of opposite reaction or opposite effect than we intended. (Gregory Bateson in his book of essays "The Ecology of Mind" made this abundantly clear.) With receptive attention we can let go of what we think we already know and wait in an "actively receptive" manner which is the truer meaning of "patience". Maybe it is allowing the silence of not knowing to further inform us by way of insight from the whole aka universe or "the all and everything". Much can be seen clearer by mining the questions around these two relative aspects of attention. However we do need to get clear about the question/s. The moment of having a question puts us into the receptive space or wonder of 'don't know mind'. Whatever apparent answer it may give, if necessary can be used to ask the next deeper question that can put back into and familiarize us with our innate sense of wonder. It is the sense of wonder that is primary much like the goose that lays the golden eggs. We may need to cease "killing the goose".

Henry I'm reading your book Original Love now. In the context of your words here: Quite helpful I find the lines: "notice how you start to sense your body, how you start to sense the surroundings. When we are still we magnetize a greater stillness that is always here; it starts to feed into us, to seep into us; taste a little bit of that greater stillness right now". Would you sometimes touch on how you see this stillness is intimately related to original love. I understand that any description is not the reality and at some point in our setting they need to be let go of. Sometimes I say breath is the movement of love. Maybe what we feel as the breath can be said to be the flux of the One-Whole reality, the movement of Original Love.

He is just so amazing at expressing mindfulness, Zen. 🧘‍♀️Today I followed the practice entitled Original Love on the WakingUp app ❤ Thank you so much for the guidance

I have primary insomnia. At night I think about Henry's guided meditations: 'Coming into stillness...' and I actually briefly fall asleep. Reframing the moments I'm awake has made such a difference 🧘

Perfect pause

The medication on the waking up app on 'Support' is one I listen to on my walks in the morning. There is also one called 'no goal', which I use as a guidence a few times a week. Thank you so much for the work you do 🧘

Loved this. Thanks so much for being on the show 🙏🏼

Congratulations!

Comgatulations. zenON

Again, lovely tidbits of Buddhist wisdom, thank you Henry. I believe you should have a much larger reach for everyone's benefit, but it's getting harder these days to stand out in an ocean of online content. It's especially tough to play the clickbait games with Buddhist content - I don't know, maybe go with "Shukman DESTROYS the ego!"

Yes.

I've recently been trying to get more clarity on this topic and, at least in my experience of thought, there seem to be more aspects to it than just words and images. For example, when considering mathematical constructs, I often have the feeling that there is a spatial component to it, very similar actually to the way our minds construct the (essentially simulated) perception of 3-dimensional space from a range of sensory inputs that are not 3-dimensional. (Part of what contributes to our visual perception are saccades, those jumpy eye movements that keep changing the 2D content associated with each eye. And yet, in the reconstruction of how all of those individual images add up to a unified space, they are automatically arranged such that they provide evidence to a 3D environment that we perceive, not just as an idea or a loosely held interpretation, but with a sense of immediacy.) As far as I can tell (and distinguish), the way concepts are layed out in my mind feels the same way, spatial, not just visual. Sometimes I can also detect an aspect that has the feel of a force pushing or pulling. E.g. when instantiating the concept of 'yes', it feels to me like I am being pulled towards something, or I am pulling something towards me. With 'no' it feels like the opposite: a repelling force. The 'no' force can also be felt at the edges of definitional boundaries. E.g. if I ask you to think of a triangle, you might imagine one concrete triangle as a placeholder at first. But if you explore the whole range of triangleness, you might notice a repelling force preventing you from opening up the angles too wide. As they get close to 180 degrees, there is a resistance keeping them away from crossing the boundary that would make it not a triangle. I'd be very curious to hear if you can confirm the above. I don't hear many people talking about the phenomenology of thought. It's much more common to single out thought as an aspect of conscious activity that we grow up being conditioned to overindulge in and identify with. As a result of that counter-movement, the felt dimension of thought is often left out of deeper investigation. What gives thoughts the power to move us as much as they do?

Meditation undoing us is a reassuring message Henry. Meditation can sometimes unfortunately be marketed as a cure-all or self-improvement technique. That might lead to surprise or confusion when the undoing process releases long buried grief or trauma. I doubt anyone really enjoys that process, but it seems to me to be a natural part of the package.

That's a colorful analogy, Henry. I appreciate the word choice in many of your dharma talks. Espcially fond of "Original Love" on WakingUp. You ought to write another book someday!

Loved the Exchange of Breath sit on The Way!

This is so ppwerful, I love the way how various podcasts are interlinked....Henry's calm, secure aura transcends through the screen to us... he is just amazing....

thank you

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This is the quickest meditation I've tried, and I liked it. Thank you! 🌟

Would love to hear more about to what extent mindfulness or awakening can help one with physical pain (for example, a chronic condition). I have my own pre-satori impressions and they are encouraging, but I "crave" for spiritual teachers to speak more on this topic of pain, which has become a big challenge in my life.

What a beautiful video Henry.

Knowing is delusion; Not knowing is confusion. Love your vids Henry, love your books. Your ordinary mind koan video is the best I ever seen ❤

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That's art ✊🏾

Thank you.

For the restaurant, what was considered malfunction becomes novelty, merely with a loving change of perspective. Im really glad you shared that. And for the flower story, malfunction is entirely a function of perspective.

Do you know the sound of no hands clapping? 😳