Ocean-Mirror
Buddha
Buddha

awakening in awareness 

 a w a k e n   I n   a w a r e n e s s

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