Inviting yourself to be the knowing

 

Shinsui Ito

Jon Kabat-Zinn Episode #18

• Hippocratic knowledge: we are capable of harm; we must minimize our harm
• Be with what is... if you're uncomfortable, make room for that
• Silence and stillness are a good context for this
• Spaces between thoughts.. in body we're in boundless spaciousness that is awareness
• inhabit stillness and silence
• with no place to go; nothing to do; not grasping for something else (desire)
• it's actually all here now, it couldn't be more complete
• When desire to do something comes from being it's an entirely different dimension of doing, then from to do from (?); heart ignites energy in us to core
• Beauty, suffering, pain: be available to whatever's unfolding in the domain of experience and attending to it in awareness; the invitation is to let it appear and disappear in field of awareness (or awarenessing), 
• boredom, loneliness, discomfort, restlessness... all passing
• inviting yourself to be the knowing,
• taking up residence in the domain of being
• we usually don't investigate b/c we're running around in the endless "doing"
• a life lived with wisdom and integrity