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Looking with fresh eyes: quitting samsara's storyboard

Mon 1 Feb 2010

When we sit inside our story, we can weave these threads of continuity... But when we look directly at the phenomenology - at the moment by moment movement - we find there is nothing substantial there. This is the point where meditation really opens up.

When we sit inside our story, we can weave these threads of continuity, the past, the present, the future, our plans, our hopes. We have a kind of composite map of the world that seems to spread out with meaning. But when we look directly at the phenomenology - at the moment by moment movement - we find there is nothing substantial there; that the body is not a fixed thing but it is a site of experience which is dynamic and unfolding—and similarly with the field of perception opened up through the senses: sensation, colour, light, sound coming and going, coming and going.

But the storyline about what we see, that has much more continuity...  This is the point where meditation really opens up. We see the stream of assumptions and interpretations which we wrap around ourselves like a duvet, cosily fall asleeping, while feeling we are very awake!

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  • Mit frischen Augen sehen. Mannheim, 2009.
    Thanks to Daniel Beierstettel for translating into German the public talk already on the website as "Looking with fresh eyes".
    Date added: 22/02/2010
  • Looking with fresh eyes: quitting samsara's storyboard
    When we sit inside our story, we can weave these threads of continuity... But when we look directly at the phenomenology - at the moment by moment movement - we find there is nothing substantial there. This is the point where meditation really opens up.
    Date added: 01/02/2010
  • Two new translations into German
    Thanks to Petra Niehaus and Jutta Kerpen for translating into German some material already on this site in English. More translating is in progress.
    Date added: 23/01/2010
  • Integration in Dzogchen. Freiburg, 2009
    Many people see spiritual life a bit like the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty —where all beings are a Sleeping Buddha, wrapped around by different kinds of conditioning and karma, but drawing our holy sword of truth, we will cut through and liberate them.
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