Sublime

When we are real rather than nice, when we choose self-expression over self-indulgence, when we choose growth over the need to belong, and when we choose fluidity over rigidity, we begin to understand the deeper dynamics of truthfulness, and we begin to taste the freedom and goodness of this jewel.

Breath Awareness Practice › Close your eyes. Seating yourself in a comfortable position, place your hands in your lap or high on your thighs. Take a few deep belly breaths inhaling and exhaling as thoroughly as possible. Feel your feet on the ground while noticing the support of the floor in the building you are in. See if you can feel the support

Awakening from our habitual way of perceiving things requires a profound shift in our intuitive understanding of the nature of reality. Awakening is a cognitive event, the culminating Insight in a series of very special Insights called vipassana. This climax of the progress of Insight only occurs when the mind is in a unique mental state called śam

it is often beneficial to lightly maintain, as the ‘background’ to this ‘foreground’, a global awareness permeating fully and ‘filling out’ the whole body in an alive way.

Buddha as the living Dharma is sometimes called Vairochana, the eternal Buddha of the ultimate dimension. He is made of light, flowers, joy, and peace, and we can walk with him, sit with him, and take his hand. As we enter the realm of Avatamsaka, it is Vairochana Buddha we encounter.

Bodhiruchi,