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Category: Meditation

Huineng 5: Original Face (revisited)

Feel into your experience and see for yourself what has always been there.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on May 4, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Huineng 5: Original Face (revisited)

Huineng 4: No Mirror to Polish

See through your sense of self and realize that it’s always been illusory.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on May 3, 2023May 3, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Huineng 4: No Mirror to Polish

Huineng 3: Polishing the Mirror

Discover how your own internal commentary obscures the openness of this moment.

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Author Richard L. FricksPosted on May 2, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Huineng 3: Polishing the Mirror

Huineng 2: Dwelling Nowhere

Examine where you are right now, and see where experience is coming from.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on May 1, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Huineng 2: Dwelling Nowhere

Huineng 1: Original Face

Question if there is some level of consciousness that predates your existence.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on April 30, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Huineng 1: Original Face

Great Wide Earth – A Talk

Listen to a profound personal account of awakening from a modern Zen master.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on April 29, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Great Wide Earth – A Talk

Seamless Tomb

Sense the hidden dynamism and peace of being alive, right now.

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Author Richard L. FricksPosted on April 28, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Seamless Tomb

Sound of One Hand

Explore one of the most famous (and baffling) Zen koans of all time.

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Author Richard L. FricksPosted on April 27, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Sound of One Hand

Hakuin – A Talk

Meet a great reformer of Zen koan practice, and learn about his life.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on April 26, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Hakuin – A Talk

Four Levels of Love – A Talk

Discover the four reasons for practice, from a Zen perspective.

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Here is today’s Meditation.

Author Richard L. FricksPosted on April 25, 2023Categories MeditationTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Four Levels of Love – A Talk

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