“A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.” ChildrenHardSidesAttentionTeachingAwarenessFieldsBuddhismAdultsClay Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsSpiritualCertainSidesGrowthNaturalSimpleAttitudeLearningSadnessAwarenessEmotionalShapesApproachTrainingAngryTrainPersonal GrowthDetermineHappyMoodPerceiveSoilSpiritual GrowthDistractionSwingsSpontaneousPremisesSereneEquanimityTrain Of Thought Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
“Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.” LifeSidesSimpleConsciousnessAcceptingWatchesMeditationAwarenessCarOkayFellowsPassingPassingsBreathingRelaxConcentrationRejectedTrafficParts Of LifePassengersYour SideExcludedHummingSnoring Author:Rajneesh
“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.” IfsMindStatesMovingSpiritSidesImaginationAnimalExistenceAttentionConsciousnessKnownCenturyAwarenessMovementApproachGreenPlantEndureFeaturesFixedCharacteristicsDimensionsVegetablesDomainVisionariesHold FastSwarmsMigrate Author:Terence McKenna
“Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.” WorldSelfWould BeValuesSidesAwarenessPolicySelf AwarenessForeign PolicyFree World Author:Garry Kasparov
“He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayMatterKidsSidesPlayerAwarenessProveHappeningsAreasEdgesBoxesWho I AmPenaltiesRight WayRight TimeArrivingKnackOutside The BoxScholesPaul Scholes Author:Alex Ferguson
“Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are able to fully know this divine love within ourselves. These close relationships provide us not only with the experience of the highest joy and love in life, but also offer the opportunity for profound self-awareness, because each relationship mirrors both our bright attributes and our shadow sides.” KnowsWantHeartSelfAbleJoyOpportunitySidesAwarenessDivineOffersHighestShadowAnd LoveMirrorsSelf AwarenessProfoundIntimateAttributesDivine LoveFrequencyIntimate RelationshipsClose RelationshipShadow Side Author:John Friend
“Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.” JobsSidesDarkTeachingAwarenessPureYogaGainsInsightDiscriminationDark SideIdentification Author:Gary Kraftsow
“Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides.” LoveHumansSelfWisdomLightSpiritSidesConsciousnessMeditationAwarenessDivinePersonalityYogaDirectWellnessEnlighteningRealisationSelf RealisationHuman PersonalitySahaja Yoga Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious, because the death is the one side and the birth is the other side of the same coin.” PeopleIfsDiesSidesBornAwarenessBirthConsciousCoins Author:Rajneesh