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Awareness

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Posted on September 17, 2025
in #Nature Lover, Awareness, Meditation, Meditation & Journaling at Ashby Ponds, Spirituality, Well Being
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In stillness and silence we practice living in the present moment. When we are Here and Now our awareness is one with us. With practice we learn to bring the inner quietude right into the present moment. When we bask in self-recognition of our aware self we feel love, joy, peace and contentment.  Present moment has two layers: the immediate one, the one we are familiar with. It is a bundle of contents of our experience—our thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, images, events and relationships. We are constantly entangled with this content. In stillness and silence, we learn to focus on the breath or mantra instead and go beyond these mental things. For some time or at some point we stop identifying with the things and go deeper.  What do we find when we go deeper within? We...

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Posted on September 15, 2025
in Awareness, Well Being
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“It is hard to clear 5-10 minutes in my schedule for sitting in silence and solitude.” Read mindfully the above sentence to realize how silly it sounds. Do you chat on the telephone, surf the internet, watch television? How long do you spend on any one of these passive diversions? Then, why does 5-10 minutes of quiet sitting feel like a waste of time when you know it’s benefits? Sitting quietly provides time to settle the sediments of your mind (thoughts, feelings, sensations and images) and become aware that something in you is aware of all that and watching you being aware of them. Something behind all those sediments. Reflect on this for a few minutes. That reflection makes you realize that behind your experience (thoughts, feelings, sensations), behind the masks you wear something...

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