Resting in the Waves, Epilogue : This final episode of Resting in the Waves helps us recognize our own habits of mind, move beyond our home base, and engage with the practice.    Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.     Support the show (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

Resting in the Waves, Chapter 8:   This episode considers how to integrate swirls upon swirls of life's interdependent aspects and how to navigate absolute and relative realities—all with fluidity.  Ultimately, it explores the emptiness of fluidity itself.  Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.     |   Support the show (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

Resting in the Waves, Chapter 7:  The practice is not just about meditation, but how clearly and heartfully we relate to the rest of our life. This episode discusses how we can bring awareness and compassion into our daily life as we move through the world around us. Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.     |  Support the show...

Resting in the Waves, Chapter 6:  This episode considers how to tether the wild mind to a home base.  It also compares and contrasts awareness with will, and weaves together four factors that comprise the process of "mind" with the 6 R’s. Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.   Support the show (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

Resting in the Waves, Chapter 5: This episode features the prerequisites for spiritual practice and an overview of three branches of Buddhism.  It also examines three essential practices at the root of the Buddha’s teachings and the 6 R’s of wise effort. Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.    Support the show (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

Resting in the Waves, Chapter 4:  Buddhist meditation is about awareness. This episode explores  indirect experience—exploring phenomena without intellectual bias.   If we can see our actual experience accurately without distortion, that is enough to liberate us from suffering.   The Buddha promoted direct, unmitigated, clear awareness as the bedrock of spiritual practice.  Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books,...

Resting in the Waves, Chapter 3: This episode examines awareness, mind, self, and the four ingredients that make up the process that we call mind. Resting in the Waves: Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity was written by Doug Kraft, published by Easing Awake Books, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.     Support the show (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

An introduction to Buddha's teaching clearifies how "everything is in process" and what that means for practitioners.

The senses of self involve a spectrum, from extreme distortion, through coping mechanisms, to freedom of non-identification with self.

Subconscious phenomena in the brain influence how we perceive the world around us and our own sense of self.

"Welcoming the Mind's Fluidity" starts with an allegorical poem about a duck in the ocean waves and then ponders what it means to welcome the mind's fluidity.

Hindrances distort consciousness but show us where there's imbalance that hides wisdom.

Interview with Doug Kraft on the "Conscious Perspective Podcast" with Gary Haskins.

Meditation is remembering to see the movements of the mind's attention.

Stages of meditative understanding, jhanas, are based on direct experience that unfolds into nibbana.

If the mind is clear and light, we tend to see clearly, but if full of grasping and aversion, what we see is full of distortion.

Go deeply into the question “What are you?” and respond from a place that is deeper than concept and story lines.

The so-called Four Noble Truths are not capital “T” truths, but simple meditation instructions.

Reconstructing the historical Buddha helps give insights into how he thought and what he taught.

The Buddha discovered universal wisdom deep in human experience.

Most of humanities problems arise from a hyper-developed sense of self.

Dhamma gifts reflect the ways we are already enlightened and the ways we are most vulnerable.

The jhanas are the Buddha’s map of how the mind-heart unfolds.

To thrive during difficult times we have to turn our attention inward and learn how to be with the instinctual tightening in a relaxed and open way.