http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/in-the-moment Explore Meditation Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/in-the-moment/comment-page-1#comment-82709 Benjamin of Short Zen Poems Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:28:51 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/?p=6064#comment-82709 I like Mike's response - the quote. The mind is a great negotiator on behalf of the ego. The whole point of dropping the mind -- emptying the mind -- is to simply be awareness itself -- pure awareness. Life can be fully navigated without carrying "knowledge" of anything. Life is made up of energy and without thoughts all that is going on is absolutely obvious, for the energy that thought ordinarily takes is free to witness wholly the present. I have a poem to share, here: <a href="http://www.short-zen-poems.com/2010/02/pure-awareness.html" rel="nofollow">Pure Awareness</a> I like Mike’s response – the quote. The mind is a great negotiator on behalf of the ego. The whole point of dropping the mind — emptying the mind — is to simply be awareness itself — pure awareness. Life can be fully navigated without carrying “knowledge” of anything. Life is made up of energy and without thoughts all that is going on is absolutely obvious, for the energy that thought ordinarily takes is free to witness wholly the present. I have a poem to share, here: Pure Awareness

]]> http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/in-the-moment/comment-page-1#comment-82525 Mandy Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:13:19 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/?p=6064#comment-82525 Aaaah I see! That's answered a couple of questions for me. Thanks Sunada. Aaaah I see! That’s answered a couple of questions for me. Thanks Sunada.

]]> http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/in-the-moment/comment-page-1#comment-82453 amaranta arcadia Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:43:21 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/?p=6064#comment-82453 Very useful and clear. Thanks Sunada Very useful and clear. Thanks Sunada

]]> http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/in-the-moment/comment-page-1#comment-82443 Catherine Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:45:30 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/?p=6064#comment-82443 The past and the future are only meaningful when we bring them into the now with full awareness. The past and the future are only meaningful when we bring them into the now with full awareness.

]]> http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/in-the-moment/comment-page-1#comment-82438 mike Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:32:32 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/?p=6064#comment-82438 "The past is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing." Ajahn Sumehdo “The past is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.” Ajahn Sumehdo

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