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a w a k e n I n a w a r
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Aloha & Mahalo
Contentment: We wish you contentment. May all beings everywhere experience contentment.
Contentment is the experience of
satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, at ease with things as they
are. This may be the serenity of mind when we feel free of the demands from within
and from without; feel empowered with choice; feel a sense of safety and well-being;
and feel a congruence of our expectations and our experiences.
We may wish for
contentment ourselves – but few of us find it as we lose our way in search of it. Instead
we may feel a discontentment with our experiences; feel unsure of ourselves and
others; feel pressured and have anxiety about our well-being; and feel a general
malaise about our life, our sense of self, our professional life, and our participation
and acceptance in our community. In this, we lose our awareness of the reality
of our experience.
We offer guidance
into an awareness of our reality, our experience as it is, so we may find and experience
contentment in our life in each moment. We offer guidance
into an awakening in awareness of our natural contentment - our true nature.
Our Vision: We
wish to counsel your spiritual development to transform your life through true
awareness - to guide your spiritual path into an awakening in awareness - to
emancipate you from suffering and empower you with contentment - to open your
heart into generosity, gratitude, loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity -
to guide you into your "being" your true spiritual nature in
connection, interconnection, and interdependence with all beings. We wish to be
your spiritual counsel on your spiritual path of discernment.
Our Role: To support this
vision, we lead meditation, retreats and training programs that focus on practicing and
cultivating the skillful emotions of love, compassion, and serenity; and
the experience of the non-dual dimension of life. We offer interfaith chaplaincy or
spiritual counseling to all suffering beings everywhere using true active
listening to be with another in their suffering in fearlessness, selflessness,
awareness, and compassion. We also offer Crisis Intervention
as immediate, short-term help to individuals, families, and communities who
experience an event that produces spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, and
behavioral distress or problems.
Sentient beings are numberless – I vow
to free them
Delusions are inexhaustible – I vow to
transform them
Reality is boundless – I vow to perceive
it
The way of awakening in awareness is
unsurpassable – I vow to embody it
The
vow of the Bodhisattva
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