Etsy

An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Expanded Awareness

As my perception evolves to a less individualistic vision, I begin to taste this delicious salvation within. The dissolution of the ego-based centeredness brings about an expansion of consciousness.

I begin to experience the calculability of knowing what to expect. Not only in myself but in those who cling to elements which create the foundation of their behaviour. I experience the expanded consciousness within myself with faith, remaining unaffected by the unskillful tenue of others.

What crime can take place? When the ego-consciousness softens. No victim, no offence. No longer moved, up nor down nor here nor there. With the absence of opinion and aversion is the absence of offence.

Here I find myself ... within a complete understanding at the level of experience. The transparency of ego. Another moment of expanded consciousness. Arises, pesists and then gently falls away. No identification.

In these moments of continued meditation the expansion of perceptual space becomes so vast. Here I experience an extension ... outwards. Far-going beyond this body consciousness. There is no_thing that divides me. The limitations of the mental conception of space, I am no longer confined to. Though I know of its presence it has no hold.
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