#wakefulness

[gemrose]

Come.. Sit,

put down your baggage,

bathe your whole being in the moment,

the warmth, the light, the color and scent of it,

let it wash away the stains of time.

~ Meeta Ahluwalia

[alyssa-ai]

Sometimes, at night, insomnia takes pleasure in keeping me awake, I take the opportunity to look at the city sleeping outside my window…

[mountain-sage]

MINDFULNESS - WATCHFULNESS -

AWAKENESS

We begin with mindfulness in order to find our way out of the delusion and dualistic fixation that have gone on endlessly in samsara..

Mindfulness, however, could have a definite dualistic connotation. It could be like putting a hook in a piece of meat and holding it steady so that a dog does not run off with it. There is a subject keeping an eye on the object.

There is a more subtle level called watchfulness, which is a mere noticing, but it also is subtly dualistic.

Even more subtler than watchfulness is awakeness.

That is the point of separating sem and rigpa. Sem, the dualistic frame of mind, means involvement with thoughts of either past, present or future. Rigpa simply means the awakened state that is uninvolved in thoughts of the three times.

Honestly, for a beginner, without mindfulness of reminding, there is no recognistion of mind essence.

That is called deliberate mindfulness. It is dualistic mind that reminds you to recognize, but seeing of no thing to be seen is rigpa, the awakened state free of duality.

The method of non-distraction is mindfulness.

~ TULKU URGYEN RINPOCHE

[gloomydiary]

My brain literally can't sleep for more than 5-6 hours, I want to sleep Im so tired

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[guiltyidealist]

new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

[hansoeii]

the honda odyssey, huh?

[overcaffeinated-aro]

ok not to be that guy but like. labor rights and working class rights can coexist with 24h services and late amenities. its certainly hard to do so without worker exploitation in this political and social environment, it’s not a conflict likely to resolve overnight. but 24h services are important and especially valuable to those of us that are disabled or are on a different circadian rhythm. in fact more professional, health, and government services should be available or at least possible to work on asynchronously (if applicable) during late or odd hours, while workers also get sufficient pay for their labor and proper consistent scheduling. this would be much easier on the workers with night schedules if the entire professional world didn’t grind to a halt at 5pmEST

[mountain-sage]

Self-existing wakefulness is in all beings.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

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[pepminttea]

rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy

[crimeronan]

people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

[kirkenovak]

[swamibhoomanandatirtha]

Do not shrink, fear, or doubt. Inside you, there cannot be an external, gross world, at all. It is there only in the sentient sky your Self holds in it. If you wonder whether such a feature is possible, think of the dream of the sleeper. The sleeper is unconscious of his body, mind, intelligence, ego, and the world. In such an exclusively dis-associated state, he dreams a full world, akin to what he saw in wakefulness, full of countless small and big objects.

The wakeful world also is such a display; exactly so. Say so, feel so, and be convinced beyond doubt by your own reasoning and experience.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Click here to listen to the audio 'The Truth about Wakefulness, Sleep and Dream': https://www.bhoomananda.org/audios/the-truth-about-wakefulness-sleep-and-dream/

[bardof-avon]

it is so embarrassing to be losing my mind over a tv show and all of the stills look like this

and it WILL be the most thrilling piece of television you have ever watched