Awakening the Mind
Sign of Awakeness:
Emptiness, clarity, open-mindedness
Awakening/ Non-Dual Experiences:
Natural mind, jhanas 5 – 8, cessation
Outside or Edge of Comfort Zone:
Irritation, addiction, anxiety, inner critic, fogginess
Feels like you are at war with the world
How to Wake Up:
Creating spaciousness
Embracing confusion and inner demons
Working with These Parts
Meditation concentration object: Awareness – how can you create more light and space in experience?
Element: Air – allowing content to breathe
Process of working with content in mind: Unpacking, clarifying, understanding
People start to heal when they feel: Safe & respected
Archetype: Magician, Adult
Practices: Vipassana, samatha, mindfulness, talking therapies
Content
Some important posts on understanding the depths and reality of mind awakening and some common traps to avoid
Practice
Videos
Non-Dual Mind: Dissolving into Awareness
A short introductory talk (8 minutes) and guided meditation (10 minutes) on accessing the non-dual mind by noting awareness itself.
Reflection and Intention Setting with Emptiness and Non-Duality
A short exercise to reflect on your year (10 minutes) and then a guided meditation connecting this to emptiness, non-duality and the hum of the Universe (30 minutes).
Podcasts
Meditation, Meaning, Myth and Magic, with Daniel M. Ingram – Part V
We discuss emptiness, its different meanings and generally using words better in meditation and awakening
Spiritual Discovery, with Paul Wallace
Paul shares the story of his decades-long exploration into meaning, semiotics, spiritual practice and more.