Being with Being
Quality time with our nature, applied to the real stuff of living. For meditators and spiritual seekers who've had enough of the rush towards self-improvement AND know the relief possible -- from suffering towards joy -- as we unburden ourselves and clarify who we truly are.
Each hour-long practice offers unhurried space to be present with what's essential in series-based explorations from martial arts and relationships to psychology and Taoist meditation. Sessions recorded from live Insight Timer gatherings, released weekly.
Also from the writer of Unfolding Together: Explorations of Minimal Viable Spirituality at https://mackenziehawkins.substack.com/ and co-author of Way of Now and other books with Master Wonchull Park.
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Being with Being
Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Finding Space Around Pain
In this opening exploration, we'll discover how feeling space can fundamentally shift our mode of perception from narrow focus to open awareness. I'll guide you through Dr. Les Fehmi's revolutionary approach of feeling the space between things—starting with your fingers—to access a more inclusive way of being with pain and difficulty. Through this practice, you might find how shifting into spacious awareness naturally allows sensations to dissolve and flow rather than feeling stuck or fixed.
Some possible takeaways from today's practice:
- Learning the difference between narrow and open focus awareness
- Discovering how feeling space between your fingers shifts perception
- Experiencing pain within the larger context of spacious awareness
- The possibility that sensations can move, flow, and change when met with space
Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.
Thank you for Being with Being.
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