Posts covering the Feel stage of the RAFT to Freedom journey
Luminous is the mind. And it is defiled by visiting impurities.
Gotama (The Buddha)
Freedom is not something you acquire; it is the absence of the compulsion to grasp or resist – the opening of a space where life can unfold.
Stephen Batchelor
Episode 44 The ever-wakeful watch and the space of non-reactivity
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
Practitioners, there are wholesome and unwholesome states… wise attention, much practised, is the nutriment for the arising of the unarisen investigation-of-states enlightenment factor.
Gotama (The Buddha)
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.
Zen Proverb
Episode 45 – The navigator’s chart-work and the ‘Lamp of Curiosity’
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
For a person who is energetic, vigorous, and always making an effort, mindfulness is well-established.
Gotama (The Buddha)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Episode 46 – Sustaining insightful momentum and the fine-tuning of power
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
“From gladness comes joy; from joy, tranquillity; from tranquillity, happiness; and from happiness, the mind becomes collected.”
47 – Energising Joy as a Support
Christina Feldman
When we learn to delight in what is good in ourselves, we are no longer driven by lack. Joy becomes the expression of enoughness.
Episode 47 Catching the favourable winds and the buoyancy of the heart
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
There is no happiness higher than peace.
Gotama (The Buddha)
Calmness of mind does not mean you have no thoughts… It means you are not being held hostage by them.
Anon
Episode 48 – The glassy sea and the cooling of the system
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom