Being + Doing
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Because the balance of doing and being, or work and life balance, is important, the following meeting at our sister meetup Awakening SF is posted and you are invited. We’ll be starting our S&H soon too.
Returning to Presence in Daily Life
When you become absorbed in something like doing, dreaming, reacting, hurting, enjoying, judging, thinking, worrying, working, watching movies or the news, or even spiritual seeking, how do you get back to presence?
In other words, how do you live and love consciously? Without unnecessary unrest, turmoil, or suffering?
When you return to presence, it is easier to remember the moment when you were trapped in a nightmare or a beautiful dream, such as during a honeymoon period after getting what you wanted. You may even catch yourself being overtaken by reactivity and watch its momentum unfolding.
But in the midst of unconsciousness, how can we get back to presence?
And why would we may want to anyway?
The ‘ego’ fights for survival, bringing continued distress, irritation, and worries. Without awareness there’s no freedom and no real choice, as the conditioned entity takes over. That understanding makes it easier to forgive others, but to gain autonomy, freedom from suffering, and live a fulfilling life, awareness is primary.
There are pointers, portals, teachings, and tools to return to presence awareness anytime, but are we aware of them or able to activate them during reactive times in our lives?
It is easier to practice with small challenges and more important to deepen our awareness during bigger ones. And life will eventually present us with both. So this is like life disaster preparedness so that we can live a more resilient, satisfying, and happier life anyway.
Awakening Conversations
Practical, moving, and meaningful Conversations for deepening and accelerating spiritual awakening and alleviating suffering so that we live our most fulfilling, relevant, authentic, and productive lives. This is where we translate teachings and our personal experiences into our everyday conscious living and loving. And here we can bring our questions.
Hosted by Rafael,
Wednesday, April 26 at 5 p.m.
Reveille Café sidewalk by🧣 on Waller & Steiner by Duboce
Donations-based, as it was suggested, $5. See you there in the present
Being + Doing