Tag: presence
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Rhett Butler—SexyIndifference OG and the Power of Presence
Read time 1 minute. Rhett Butler was the SexyIndifference GOAT, and that’s what made him iconic. He didn’t give a damn. Indifference has something extra on it.You can feel it. So can everyone else. And it repels. SexyIndifference doesn’t have that.It doesn’t try to be confident—it exudes it.It doesn’t try to be calm—it oozes it.It…
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AwakeWide: Zen Drop 014
Read time about 1 minute. AwakeWide into presence that expands without limit. Trying to be a Zen master?Trying to master the moment? Don’t master the moment—meet it.AwakeWide. No matter what you call the practice, that is the practice.Approach it. Embrace it. Enjoy it. Awareness alone does not guarantee transformation.But awareness takes you to the edge.When you get…
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Be Here Now: Zen Drop 002
Read time 1 minute. Presence is a part of everything. Be here now to experience it. These 3 little words are seemingly everywhere: Be Here Now…. The mind knows the words. But knowing is not being. Be: No doing. No becoming. The foundation. The Is-ness. No more. No less. Here: Feel the space around you, free of…
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Silliness: The Wisdom And Presence Of Playfulness
Read time 4 minutes. Silliness as presence. Lately I’ve been hearing a car commercial with Elaine Stritch singing “Are You Having Any Fun?” Maybe you’ve heard it too—it’s hard to miss. The song is striking in its playfulness, but also loaded with wisdom: “Are you having any fun… laughs?” Or the sharper question: “Who cares for what you’ve got if…
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Unconditional Trust: A Leaping Embrace Into Uncertainty
Read time 6 minutes. Unconditional Trust is a stand alone article in our series regarding paradox. Today we turn again to paradox. Specifically, the paradox of being and becoming, and how this dance reveals the deeper presence of trust. In doing so, we must also recall the earlier lesson of simplicity and complexity—because unconditional trust, like…
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Impermanence and the Paradox of Being/Becoming
Read time 5 minutes. Impermanence is a stand alone article in our series regarding paradox. In our last lesson, we explored the paradox of everything and nothing, of absence and presence. Today we turn to another paradox: presence itself—not as the presence or absence of a thing, but as it relates to time, to this fleeting…
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Everything and Nothing: The Paradox of Empty, Pure Potentiality
Read time 5 minutes. Everything and Nothing is a stand alone article in our series regarding paradox. Let’s continue to dissect paradox in its many forms. Today: the paradox of everything and nothing. Nothingness holds the potential for everything. Yet if we fixate on that potential, we’re still lost in illusion. The two are aspects of…
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Become a Verb: Practice of Self-inquiry in Review
Read time 5 minutes. Become a Verb is a stand alone article in our Who Am I series. Our exploration into the practice of self-inquiry has stretched across ten lessons—sometimes direct, sometimes meandering, always circling back to the same essential question: Who am I? The aim has not been to collect more theories but to transform intellectual understanding…
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Empty Awareness: Presence Dwarfs the Identity Center
Read time 6 minutes. Empty Awareness is a stand alone article in our Who Am I series. Our last lesson on self-inquiry ended with a warning. The question Who am I? is powerful, but it is not meant to become a lifeless mantra, repeated without presence. Nor is it meant to be dissected endlessly until we obsess and overthink.…