http://eternalawareness.com Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Do you want to know what enlightenment is?” the teacher asked. Instantly the room became pin-drop still as curiosity flamed up a few degrees. A few students nodded, while others found themselves too immersed in suspense to move or even change their expressions. “It is very simple,” he said. “It ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/09/27/stages-of-enlightenment/ It is not so easy being a self-reliant and independent person. Try, work, struggle and try again. On and on, an endless cycle. Some people claim that work is fulfillment, and it is true that it can be just that. Whether that is something good for you, however, depends ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/09/11/effort-versus-effortlessness/ It can be like prison - clanging cell bars, mundane routines, endless years spent in isolation. The sun rises, the sun sets. Life is a shadowy blur, indistinct, without purpose. When problems are piling up on us, and stress and depression are strangling our energy, we can easily cave in to ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/31/sunflower/ There are many paths winding down rocky shorelines, leading to a vast lake called Awareness. Quiet coves weave along its banks, touching the calm and soothing waters of understanding. I have met a lot of people who have shared that they have something burning within them. "I don't know what it is, but I am just constantly ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/10/unquenchable/ Water wears down the stone Sometimes it takes a thousand years to change the mind and improve the heart of a single man. http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/09/wear-and-tear-a-fine-wine-makes/ Each minute I live, is less time left in this particular body. It is a steady, dripping depletion. I turn around and look, and glance at the trail of blood my life is leaving behind. Squinting, I wonder... Is my blood staining the ground, only to be washed away by ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/09/491/ It is said the eyes are the windows to the soul. Looking into the eyes of a stranger, I often have the sense this is someone I know. I can feel it in my heart, too. The more people I look at, the more familiar the faces I see. ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/09/i-see-you-in-the-dark/ A self defense martial artist can often see the holes in a defensive position. This skill is learned by first realizing how many holes you have in your own self defense skills. A good martial arts teacher, however, will teach more than this one perspective of defense. The student's defensiveness will ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/04/defensiveness/ If you follow your heart and cause damage, should you suffer or rejoice? http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/03/heart/ The icy cold north-to-south arctic currents of the Pacific Ocean often shroud America's west coast in mists called inversion layers. Creating a persistent fog that can cause moodiness or even depression, only a few miles inland it can be a bright, cloudless sunny day. Stepping through the soft boundary that ... http://eternalawareness.com/2008/08/03/fog/