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: Moving Our Headquarters
In this exploration, we'll discover how to shift from experiencing pain as a separate object to immersing ourselves directly in the experience. I'll guide you through relocating your sense of identity from your head to your heart, hands, and even into the center of pain itself. Through this practice, you might find how dissolving the separation between observer and observed allows pain to reveal itself as the flow of nature experiencing itself.
Some possible takeaways from today's practice:
- Learning to shift your sense of identity and observing center
- Discovering the flexibility of where you place your "headquarters"
- Experiencing pain from the inside rather than as a separate object
- Finding how immersion can dissolve the grip of difficult sensations
- Embracing the gentleness and many options of being with ourselves
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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