PORTALS of PRESENCE

When fleeting thoughts arise, don't chase after them ... the yogi who looks directly at the nature of mind ... captures naked awareness ... in the continuously renewed immediacy of the present moment

(The Words of Dzogchen)

Sustaining awareness in the immediacy of the moment often requires the cultivation of forgetting 'to allow the freshness of each new moment to be received in the fullness of itself'... 'Without the burden of the past, the present can be met exactly as it is' ... free of conceptual elaboration. 

(The Sage's Way  ... Ray Grigg)

To know the very essence of awakened awareness and non-conceptual presence we only need to enter into the direct experience of it ... Familiarize ourselves with it more and more as presence awareness is fully established as our true personhood, our mode of being and our life expression.   

Self-arising wisdom is present spontaneously, searching for it elsewhere is exhausting, and expensive $$$

Genuine Being

Open to the expanse that is before you

In the luminous clarity

Of awakened mind

Perfect reality ... genuine being 
Can be suddenly realized

Simply by letting go 

Of the incessant  distractions 

Of our own conceptual mind


Opening to the awareness that is
awakened mind

Attending to life and existence 
In this Gaia-Earth, Life-Net


And in this
Discovering life unfolding with profound beauty
As we continue on our Dharma trail: Vereda

Only known through direct experience,

The abode of all the buddahs
Awakened awareness
Presence
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Homage to buddha-mind … The true guru!

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The Dimension of Timeless Awareness

Beyond conceptual-reality …

Is that of simply resting in awareness itself

Just as it is ...

Once known always known ...

Aware of being aware …

Perfect reality unfolds

And

In the pure perspective of timeless awareness

The ancient, ageless truth of buddhahood 

Is awakened

You are free 

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Awaken

VEREDA

The Path of Immediate Awareness


Discovering your innate presence
Beyond the conceptual mind ...


You enter the presence of awareness itself
Awakened mind ...


Spaciously open with marvelous vistas
You see your life's journey


Before you, your spiritual adventure begins
On your Dharma Path


Awaken


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Lessons Ahead

Awaken.odt 

One Breath Awakening

A Breath of Air

Pure Mother Nature Essence

Received and Released

Into Life ... Into Consciousness

Consciousness blossoming
In awareness

Awareness manifesting presence

Realizing the oneness of planetary life

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Taking Care

On the Path

Learning … to take care ….

Not as in taking ~ But as in giving

Learning to be caring of ourselves

Each other … Our planet

And all its abundance of

Life

Blossoming consciousness

Awareness

And 

Presence

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Taking Care

                                     *                It is our  destiny!

The Emptiness

Meditating on emptiness can be an entertaining  intellectual exercise. What is this emptiness? How can one meditate on it?

We can try to grasp a concept, conjure an image. But then we are only playing mind games … immersed in the mind of conceptual ideas...images...opinions...beliefs. The conceptual reality matrix.

Meditating in emptiness takes us to an entirely different dimension.
It’s simply resting, (waiting) in awareness... The heart-mind essence.

In this the emptiness is a direct experience. No concept can grasp it. No image can display it. In a sense there is actually nothing whatsoever to meditate on...

There is only occasionally the arising of conceptual elaborations
in the immense openness of nowness... The continuously renewed immediacy of perfection itself...

Labeling only occurs in confusion, mistaking the concept for the reality it imperfectly represents...

The prefect symbolic representation of this emptiness is the Tibetan AH...

As in “AH yes...The Perfect Suchness”

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~  Enter here the reality stream ~

Dakini Dreams