Awakening provides many opportunities to “purge” conditioned mental habits. We can wake up one morning absorbed in fearful anxiety and not know from where this comes. Our mind searches for a “cause”. “I don’t understand, yesterday I felt great, I had no fear, I faced some challenges and sailed right…

During Awakening, the mind’s attachment to “objects” of thought and emotion are being recognized in more and more situations. The identification with a “personal me” is coming into Awareness. The dependence on thinking is seen. Spaciousness as consciousness expands. …

As we go through the Awakening process, we will face the conditioned ways we’ve connected with others through our lifetime. We will become aware of the ego’s desires, manipulations, defenses as well as early childhood programming where we searched for approval, permission, praise, and love from our care-givers. Conflict in…

Another mystery of the human experience is feeling flooded with emotion without knowing from where nor why it has come. Panic attacks aren’t pleasant nor comfortable. The mammalian brain spontaneously goes into hyperdrive, to fight or flee some unknown danger, to ensure physical or psychological survival. When we cannot identify…

It’s normal for the human thinking mind to try to juggle Life to keep all of its “spinning plates” spinning. Humans in doing-mode, driven by busy minds, want to keep those plates in the air to keep the momentum going and have nothing change. …

How many times have we wanted to do something but we didn’t try; we were too afraid we’d fail? We might think that fear is powerful, yet the power of our belief is that which is mighty. Where we invest belief is what shapes the outcome that we reap. How…

Using Stillness

The Awakening process is undertaken with the greatest of courage. It is courageous to look directly at thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, to face suffering, fear, the arising of the ego while peering over the edge of the unknown. Awakening is the time for conditioned mind-emotional patterns, egoic patterns, to intensify…

Awakening offers many tiny glimpses of Oneness, Formless Beingness, during everyday life. These small, quick openings are like looking through the tightest, tiniest aperture setting of a camera lens. In these moments, Awareness sees with clear seeing. In this one moment, the thinking mind, egoic mind-is still, no thought, no…