Tuesday, April 29, 2008

An Ocean of Awareness

Most of us live in a very small pond of awareness because we're trapped in our internal talk - mostly in the stories we tell ourselves. These stories function like filters that limit what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and think. Often we're not even aware that the filters exist.

To expand into an ocean of awareness, we use one-pointed awareness. It actually dissolves the filters and exposes our six senses to life as it truly is. Aiming one-pointed awareness toward a black bird's whistle we hear a subtle inflection or the sound of silence.
I do not know which to prefer
The beauty of inflection
Or the beauty of innuendo

The black bird whistling
Or just after.
Wallace Stevens