Podcasts about in awareness

3-10-24 PM "Praying in Confident Faith" Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40, Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 52b, I. That God's Kingdom is Certain A. By God's Sovereignty B. Through Christ's Work II. That God's Name is Praised A. In Awareness of Deference B. In Progress to Consummation III. That My Prayer is Heard A. By My Heavenly Father B. Because of Jesus Christ Rev. Greg Lubbers

In this episode, Queren King-Orozco shares her experience with keeping chickens in and around her garden. Learn how a chicken flock can benefit your garden beds and vice versa, as well as how to address challenges that come from having these poultry pecking around your plants. Resources: Follow Queren on Instagram @AmongTheThistle Learn about Brinsea and their trusted incubation innovations. Learn from Queren in our online “Poultry 101” course about how to raise a healthy flock. This episode’s music is “In Awareness” by Andy G. Cohen. To see more podcasts, visit our Mother Earth News and Friends page. Check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Bookstore for more resources to help you achieve your health and farming goals. Go to the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR page for webinar and courses on everything from gardening to livestock management. 

In this episode, Dalia Monterroso shares how to have a successful brooding experience, and what to do to make sure your chicks stay healthy and happy in the process. Resources: Learn about Brinsea and their trusted incubation innovations. Learn more about Chickenlandia, and explore their interactive course. Find Welcome to Chickenlandia on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Hear more from Dalia in our previous episode “Finding Chicks.” This episode’s music is “In Awareness” by Andy G. Cohen. To see more podcasts, visit our Mother Earth News and Friends page. Check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Bookstore for more resources to help you achieve your health and farming goals. Go to the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR page for webinar and courses on everything from gardening to livestock management. 

Each one of us has the power to shift into awareness.  At the substratum of consciousness is our ability to be aware, the infallible gift of awareness. Once we loosen from the mind, and retreat into our awareness, we can do the arduous work to keep creating harmony. Awareness is the still point, harmonic resonance, the incorruptible silence, that unchanging reality behind consciousness. When learning to use the mind effectively, we discover the way to continually retreat into the sanctuary of awareness. The mind is a necessary functionary of the material universe. It is a radar, our surveyor, the signal that picks up disharmony, and distress. It alerts us to that which runs counter to the cosmic order, while the state of awareness is our true nature. Once invoked, we pursue a clear intent to honor our journey, however it unfolds.  Through living in Ahimsa, we sustain Awareness. In Awareness, we also sustain Ahimsa. In living ahimsa, we learn that peace does not depend on conducive conditions.  Peace is about learning to transcend disharmony, disorder, disease, and despair by reaching for that inner flame, the irrevocable light that redefines all living conditions. When we recognize that peace can exist amid the carnal grounds of despair, destruction, chaos, confusion, we are living in Ahimsa - the state of inner harmony and equanimity.  Through awareness, we heal. Nourish Peace. Background Music: Tibetan Singing Bells' Monk; Gong Meditation MusicSupport the show (http://paypal.me/wiseearth)

Instruction and meditation on Mindfulness of Breathing: the focus on anapanasatti (focusing on the sensations at the opening of the nostrils and/or on the upper lip under the nostrils) The problem with this foundational practice is that the mind has a thirst for entertainment and it gets bored with the practice and makes up its own entertainment. Thoughts will come up in this practice but you do not cognitively fuse with them (fall into daydreaming). The problem with Settling the Mind in its Natural State is that you get sloppy and just get caught up in what arises in the mind. In Awareness of Awareness, the most common error is just sitting there, zoning out and not knowing anything – which is the root of samsara. In Mindfulness of Breathing, the antidote to restlessness/too much kinetic energy is to relax and release the energy gently on the out breath. If it gets boring when the sensations become very subtle, attend closely while releasing all control of the breath. If stability isn’t getting better, your shamatha isn’t working Asanga does not mention the acquired sign or the counterpart sign. He discusses attending to the whole body and the route of the passage of the breath. He also discusses prana – a subtle energy (and it might be what he is referring to when he speaks about breathing through the skin). Some discussion of Tibetan medicine and the notions of the three humors: wind, fire, and phlegm. Meditation starts at 48:19 Q&A (73:07) Discussion of the differences between the discovery and the development models.

We all experience taking voluntary action such as raising an arm. Who is the agent for voluntary actions? In Awareness of awareness meditation during the inversion into awareness, look for the agent who is doing the inversion and release. In the seen there is just the seen – Buddha said when you look at appearances you are not with them. Discussion of scientific views regarding physical world and its objectivity. Discussion of quantum mechanics. Anton Zeilinger’s position that nothing which exists is independent of our system of measurements. Alan presents other physics theories that he views supports the philosophical view of emptiness and refutes materialistic scientific views. Afternoon meditation (69:51) – Awareness of awareness looking for the agent of voluntary actions. Sorry, no time for questions this time!

Introduction Discussion of self cherishing and why it arises. Developing new habits – reconfiguring using the four immeasurable culminating in equanimity. Settling the mind in its natural state – not trying to transform the contents of the mind but the way we relate to the contents. The discovery approach versus the developmental approach of transforming the mind. Guided meditation (37:17) Settle the mind in its natural state. Instead of letting images of people go, this time when an appearance of a person comes to mind attend closely. Use tonglen to breath in the person’s sufferings and wish them to be free of suffering and breathe out may you be well and happy. Can also breathe in the blessings of the Buddha and then breathe them out to the person. Then open the door and wait for the next person to appear. Questions (64:24): What is the relationship between these terms: introspection, clear comprehension, contemplation and bare attention? What is the space of non conceptuality? In Awareness of Awareness meditation during the release part, do you release everything or maintain a level of knowing? What is the best way to begin to develop lucid dreaming?

Alan’s introduction to today’s practice aimed to differentiate Awareness of Awareness from Settling the Mind in its Natural State. The culmination of any Shamatha method is the dissolution of the mind in substrate consciousness. In Settling the Mind, the object of meditation is the space of the mind and whatever mental events arise within it, and the practice consists in letting these events be. In Awareness of Awareness, the interest is the nature of awareness itself. The practice consists in letting go any mental event, in releasing the thoughts. Alan explains that this is like “taking the fruit as the path” because you are releasing your mind as if you were ready to transcend the mind immediately. By being aware of being aware, you can indeed have a taste of the three characteristics of the substrate consciousness: bliss, luminosity (not to be equated to brightness, but rather to a sense of being awake) and non-conceptuality.