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Facing Regret

Powerful insights from the Waking Up APP. Listen and learn.

Notice the difference between mistakes and failures—and regret itself.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard L. FricksPosted on June 20, 2023Categories Human condition, Meditation, RealityTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on Facing Regret

The Pencil Driven Life

Here’s a short audio reflection from the Waking Up app:

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO7F1F4?share_id=4B727F8B&code=SCA8073A5

Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard L. FricksPosted on June 12, 2023Categories RealityTags Sam Harris, Waking Up APPLeave a comment on The Pencil Driven Life

Huineng 5: Original Face (revisited)

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

Here is today’s Meditation.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Here is today’s Meditation.

Unknown's avatarAuthor 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.

Here is today’s Meditation.

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

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