Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Big Sky Mind
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Q & A: When the Fire of Awakening Burns…
Gotta’ love when the earthquake of Awakening rattles and rolls everything we’ve ever known to be true… Question(s): As I sit, all that comes within my attention, or where I choose to turn my attention, exists because I’ve turned my attention on it. Then, when I turn my attention on “the one” who is attending [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Redux: Wisdom
The teachings surrounding wisdom have been popping up around Infinite Smile recently. So here’s a re-posting of part of the chapter on this subject from Awake in This Life: As the audience, or Witness, of the illusory and repetitious charade of ego on the Stage of Mind, we suddenly have an empowering choice offered to [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Amazing Day, Amazing Weekend
Leading retreats for Infinite Smile can be very sweet at times. Of course I miss sitting myself, but it’s amazingly gratifying when I get to participate with practitioners who are working really hard to uncover Truth. In addition to some locals making the trip down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, people have flown in from [...]
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
A Not-So-Full Enlightenment
I got an email recently that was pretty cool. In it the anonymous writer rather pointedly suggested that I was wrong to suggest that Alan Chapman’s self-professed “full” enlightenment, documented over at his site, Open Enlightenment, was at best an example of a “partial awakening, not fully integrated.” To be fair, I have no way [...]
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Redux: Showing Up
“When I see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows.”—Nisargadatta Maharaj When there is a meeting among beings grounded in the commitment not to harm, Spirit enriches everything. This enrichment happens because unattached Knowing supports the dissolution of [...]
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Podcast Alert: ISmile235 – How to Meet Total Fulfillment
In this talk, pulled from a half-day intensive, Michael discusses the gift of curiosity and how it frees us from feeling a sense of lack. via ISmile235 – How to Meet Total Fulfillment | Infinite Smile.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
The Dalai Lama Sees No Obama
I think that this story is an interesting opportunity for us to look at our attachments. While I think it more than a little awkward that for the first time since 1991, our head of state won’t meet with the DL so as not, presumably, to upset the Chinese, I can understand it in terms [...]
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Podcast Alert: ISmile234 – On Death and Dying
In this evening’s talk, Michael discusses the weighty topics of death and dying, and offers suggestions on how to let our inevitable end open us to Truth. via ISmile234 – On Death and Dying | Infinite Smile.
