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Mindful Biology is on pause
Mindful Biology is on pause
as I await discernment.
as I await discernment.
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I also host free meditation clubs and teach 'Mindfulness for Skillful Aging' classes at College of Marin.
I also host free meditation clubs and teach 'Mindfulness for Skillful Aging' classes at College of Marin.
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The framework below will seed the next stage of the project's evolution, if one comes. It is my adaptation of spiritual principles from many traditions and teachers.
The framework below will seed the next stage of the project's evolution, if one comes. It is my adaptation of spiritual principles from many traditions and teachers.
Human Life unfolds within a continuous––but often unnoticed––background of "Creative Aliveness" (also called "pure awareness", "Buddha nature", "the Light of Christ", and so on). This is the vibrant womb that holds and witnesses all experience.
Human Life unfolds within a continuous––but often unnoticed––background of "Creative Aliveness" (also called "pure awareness", "Buddha nature", "the Light of Christ", and so on). This is the vibrant womb that holds and witnesses all experience.
As we grow familiar with Creative Aliveness, we feel how it holds different qualities in different bodily regions. Eventually, we connect with its mature expressions:
As we grow familiar with Creative Aliveness, we feel how it holds different qualities in different bodily regions. Eventually, we connect with its mature expressions:
Spacious Knowing. We and society benefit from broad-minded, non-dogmatic comprehension, which borders on the non-conceptual. It centers around the head, brain, and major sense organs. In spiritual terms, it is flavored with awe and moves us toward transcendence—rising above the conventional stress of Life.
Embodied Caring. All beings are served by the boundless and courageous compassion we feel in the heart, lungs, and chest—our relational core. Spiritually, it draws us into the body and moves us toward immanence, encouraging us to love Life as it actually is, without judgment, resistance or craving.
Earthly Being. This is our most expansive stability. Rooted in the lower belly, hips & pelvis, it ties us to the earth. Tangibly we feel earthbound via functions of the skeletal base, anti-gravity muscles, and the earthy activities of reproduction & elimination. Spiritually, it connects us with deep wholeness, innate intelligence, and non-duality.
Creative Aliveness, Spacious Knowing, Embodied Caring, & Earthly Being comprise the human being in mature development, beyond the pain of confusion, aversion, and greed. Together, they sculpt an inward shape and feel, which can be explored with contemplative practices. They also connect us with a subtle and mysterious quality I call Fertile Emptiness, experienced as the silent, pure potential of Life. Beyond the reach of language, it is difficult to talk or even think about. Yet its presence and importance can be deeply felt.
As we grow into these mature realities, we connect with two vital aspects of human experience: 1. Intimacy with our values, gifts and soul. 2. Feeling how our individual being is interwoven with all of Life and the cosmos-at-large.
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