Shortcut to Enlightenment
Start by putting yourself at ease. Then notice what takes you away from being at ease. Then go back to being at ease. It's one, two, three...being generous with all the senses comes from a place of ease....
generous eyes
generous taste
generous touch
generous smell
generous ears
generous mind-heart
posted by Dog Hair @ 10:41 AM
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There seems to be a problem with this week's audio. Only a few minutes is recorded. Has anyone else had this problem?
Looks like it's now working!
Sorry. Had some trouble with the web site...needed to buy more space...
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It broke again! There's a message about the internet connection not being available or something like that. Please help. Thank you.
Sorry. It should work now...
Yes, to be a generous person with our senses is very helpful to me in living each moment.
I also find in my life the ever present question and challenge of “the more.” To see with generous eyes and where this leads me - the concrete. How I recognize that the poor are most affected by my patterns of consumption, how I use my resources (time, talent, money, et al) to alleviate suffering - poverty, homelessness, violence ...
Perhaps there is something similar in buddhism as well and so engaged buddhism is emerging.
ah....suffering in the conditioned world is inescapable...
Yes, it is inescapable. It seems to me that it is within this realization that we live and move out to "the more," to the relative world to feed the hungry, ...
For me, if my awakened generous heart leads not to care beyond myself, then what was meant to be letting go of the ego becomes staying with the ego.
myriad things come and experience themselves...in stillness there is complete movement...
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