I have had so many interesting conversations this week. Several fascinating realizations occurred in the process, among them:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tUnder the glow of warm, unjudging attention, anger reveals something true about a person that until then was unavailable to their awareness. The anger disappears, and deep ease replaces it. New directions appear\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWhen there is undue attention given to choosing, controlling or trying in one\u2019s life (the \u201cme\u201d running the life), the actual present movements of one\u2019s being remain relatively unseen. Left unattended to are attractions, affection, stirred interests, sensations in the body, the feelings of authentic response to life that occur spontaneously in the immediacy of living. At the same time there are reactions <\/em>because of \u2018how I want my life to go\u2019.<\/em> Yet the authentic and unseen movements, if not resisted, bring us the deep sense of fullness which control and choice are seeking, but cannot bring us. <\/p>\n \u2022\tIn even the most dramatic disturbances in one\u2019s life, such as death, illness or the breaking of an important relationship, deep insights into our nature are available, and seeing them changes us dramatically. We are left more loosely bound to the drama of our life, and less identified with s\/he who is living it. We can see a door we are drawn to walk through into more light and more ease. <\/p>\n \u2022\tHow astounding it is to rediscover that when there is genuine attention to anything without thought, with no judgment, no identification, but only warm, curious attention\u2026then what is revealed (besides the truth of what is watched), is a state of being that\u2019s truly alive in the moment, active and free of history or any \u2018story\u2019. This is who we truly are but have forgotten, and that we long to reclaim as our birthright. In that sublime watchful state there moves a facile intelligence that is not of thought and so can be trusted where thinking has no role.<\/p>\n I realize these musings must seem abstract scribbled here in words, but I assure you that had you witnessed the processes as they occurred, you would yourself be moved to tears (as I was). I only hope you can feel through these puny words the realities they point to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have had so many interesting conversations this week. Several fascinating realizations occurred in the process, among them: \u2022 Under the glow of warm, unjudging attention, anger reveals something true about a person that until then was unavailable to their awareness. The anger disappears, and deep ease replaces it. New directions appear\u2026 \u2022 When there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}