Good morning! Welcome to the DKos Sangha weekly open thread.
This is an open thread for members of the DKos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no particular tradition. While the language we use may differ depending on the traditions, teachers, practices, and teachings that have shaped our journeys, we find in common, generally, a search for who we truly are, our true nature, and to bring the peace and compassion born of that search into the greater world of which we are a part. If you wish to share, or if you seek support, or if you simply want to say hello, please do; this space is for you.
Patience, and vigilance.
The universe will show you the conditioning that is still running within mind; and if you’re paying attention, you’ll feel it in the body viscerally. And when it does, and when you do, then open, soften; let go of the story, go beneath the story. Notice how the body feels when reactive conditioning arises. And notice how it dissipates when we open to what is arising, when we soften, letting the defenses fall away.
When reactive conditioning arises, it tends to fill the space. When we then open and soften, conditioning dissipates; the space is clear again, and the stillness is pervasive.
Conditioning can take a long time to completely dissipate to where the same trigger will no longer cause a reactive pattern to arise. So, patience.
And vigilance.
It can be surprising when someone pushes our buttons and conditioning arises. But that someone is for us an angel; for they are the universe showing us what is still running, showing us the conditioning that has not yet fully dissipated, giving us the opportunity to meet what is arising, to open, to soften.
It is another step on the pathless path.
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Let go of the story, let go of thought,
and relax into this present moment
Let the boundaries that separate you from all that is, fall away
Let your experience of being be free
Let your heart open, let it expand unbounded
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Just this
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Namaste