{"id":7394,"date":"2015-11-04T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:24:51","slug":"awake-awareness-is-aware-without-using-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7394","title":{"rendered":"Awake Awareness Is Aware without Using Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-3-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-3-15-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Porch 11-3-15\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-3-15-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-3-15.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been working with some of the practices in the book, <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShift Into Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>, by Loch Kelly, a gifted teacher and author, who explains his Open-Hearted Awareness Approach to Being.  As my friend and fellow long-time TSK student, Bruce Alderman, points out, Kelly&#8217;s approach is consonant with TSK for it is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rooted in Tibetan Mahamudra, as TSK is rooted or influenced &#8212; however indirectly &#8212; by Dzogchen (which is very similar to Mahamudra).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Today, the weather is perfect, hovering around 70 degrees, Fall colors have announced themselves, and lately, perhaps influenced by the seasonal change, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>blissed-out<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as I work with this book\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>My quick-notes for the moment on this practice\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Glimpse 2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>Awake Awareness Is Aware without Using Thought<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Deep breathing fills the lungs with air, clears the mind with fresh oxygen, new openness greets my external view, a non-focused and non-naming looking at the trees and fluttering leaves.  Within, space is made for a rising, loving-appreciation of color, light and shadow, moving forms, the flow of emotion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 moisture rises for the eyes while just \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeeling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the body.  The sound of music moves simultaneously with the flow of inclusiveness\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a lyric is recognized, connected, and affirmed\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh that magic feeling\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6nowhere to go\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  (Beatles, <\/em><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcYou Never Give Me Your Money\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sunlight warms with a golden glow that x-rays yellowing leaves, simply filling me with fullness, a pouring in and reflected out.  A womb of belonging, a home of homes, no distance \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<\/em><em>from<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or between what appears, no separation because there is no location adopted, no identity assumed from which to feel and observe.  There is a most basic \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>aware of being aware<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 feel, the unity of the act of observing with the feel of the observed, the unity of awakened awareness, as what is always here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been working with some of the practices in the book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShift Into Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Loch Kelly, a gifted teacher and author, who explains his Open-Hearted Awareness Approach to Being. As my friend and fellow long-time TSK student, Bruce Alderman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,79,81,43],"tags":[79,81,43,169,195,104,183],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-arising","category-awareness","category-being","tag-arising","tag-awareness","tag-being","tag-higher-knowing","tag-intimacy","tag-presence","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}