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Exercises in Awakening
- The Creek With a Human Mind
I went down to the creek behind my apartment today. I tried this exercise with the simple question, "What if the creek had a human mind, what kinds of questions would it ask?
- Where am I going?
- What is my ultimate destination?
- Is that destination better than this one?
- Why aren't I a river? A lake? An ocean?
- Why couldn't I be a famous body of water?
- Why couldn't I be a body of water where people vacation?
- Why are there so many rocks in my way? They are slowing me down, interrupting my flow.
- Why aren't I a pretty river? I'll be happy once someone comes along and prune these trees and vegetation. Maybe put up a sign?
- I would need a name. What is my name? Of course, it would need to mean something important. Maybe after the Rio Grande? Whatever it is, it would need to encapsulate who I am?
- Who am I? Energetic, though periodially morose?
- Why aren't there more people? I feel lonely.
- Why don't more people get in the water? Does this mean that I am unattrative?
- Why aren't I wider, less shallow?
- What's the point of this?
- Why do I need to exist?
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Questions I Use to Stay Conscious During Day
- 1.What is my relationship with the present moment?
2. Who is speaking?
3. Is my pain body active right now?
4. Why am I responding to the ego/pain body in that person?
5. When was the last time I was aware of my breathing?
6. Am I identifying with the unobserved mind?
7. Is the negative emotion and energy I am feeling now suggesting that I need to reevaluate my level of awareness with I, consciousness.
8. Why am I identifying so strongly with my form-identity?
9. Why am I identifying so strongly with someone else's form-identity?
10. Am I identifying with a collective pain body?
11. Do I have spaciousness between my beingness and what is happening right now?
12. Is what I am doing as a means to an end?
13. Is what I am doing to be showy? To get attention for something that I have done? That I have said? That I have written?
14. Am I engaging with this person not as a role, but with consciousness of the present moment?
15. Am I cherishing and relating to the timeless, Essence in this person?
16. Why do I feel the need to associate good or bad with this person? This neutral action or situation?
17. Am I being less shallow, less negative, content with what is or isn't?
18. Do I have spaciousness between the television and my beingness?
19. Do I have spaciousness between music and my beingness?
20. Have I taken the time to hear the birds chirping?
21. Have I taken the time to feel the warmth of the sun on my face?
22. Have I taken the time to smell Nature's bouquet?
23. Have I taken time to have a moment of silence?
24. Did I take my lunch today?
