"Certainly, Focusing and the Dharma are not separate in this world. They are like the ocean and the horizon, and the great sky above—not separate, breathing itself, living itself, reveling in the majesty of things."
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"The fullness of itself rests in the fullness of itself. In this way, there is no polarity, but neither would one call it non-duality, so no duality and no non-duality."

"Presence rests in Presence. So, I guess my language for the Great Liberation, you could say, is Presence: Pre-Sence, that which comes before sense, that Mystery."

"Focusing is not about focusing. When something becomes about something, Buddhism becomes about Buddhism, or Nonviolent Communication becomes about NVC, it’s as if we go to a revolving door and we keep revolving around inside it."

"The function of a revolving door is to act as a portal into the very space or different space that you are wanting to get to."

"Hopefully what is happening is I am entering my Humanity more deeply. It’s a natural expression of my Humanity, Focusing, NVC, Mindfulness, Buddhism, they are not about themselves, they are pointing beyond themselves in a way."

"All true liberation teachings, according to her, always point to direct experience. If they are pointing to ‘Talking about’ Enlightenment, the great freedom etc, then they are not the true teaching, they are merely a dichotomy promoting and reinforcing itself."

"She mentions this term ‘Being Perception’—becoming perception, entering the realm of perception, as if we drop into the realm of perception rather than talking about it, in this way becoming awareness itself."

"The felt sense is the heart of Gene Gendlin’s Focusing, not feeling, but the felt sense, which is more than a feeling, it’s the inclusive whole to an experience that is alive."

"When there is a whole perception of itself, it is an invitation into full sensory awareness from its own terms as it drops into itself, so to speak, there is neither a duality nor a non-duality, and it just rests in itself."

"As this body here is listening to these sounds, so to speak, it can also notice the earth, the body can sense the whole shape of itself even as these sounds manifest and the spaciousness from the skin’s perspective, as it were, radiating out beyond these four walls up into the blue or dark night sky with a trillion shimmering diamonds."

"It’s the pregnant empathic pause from the whole sense of itself, and as this does so, and as the words and labels and interpretations, as it were, are just offered to space in the totality of things, they no longer have dominion over creating a split."

"The whole of this that owns itself, that, as it were, is hearing back from itself, or even as it were, is pausing in the hearing, the availability of the hearing back from itself, the whole of itself, the whole of itself hears back from the whole of itself."

"The map is not the territory, the finger pointing to the moon is the finger pointing to the moon, this is invariably an invitation for the moon and the light of the moon to inhabit itself. It just bathes itself in its own light."

"Focusing has been a portal for me personally into the mystery of the whole of this, playing itself out. Focusing, which of course, is not about focusing!"

Focusing Insight Duality Non-duality & the Wisdom of The Felt Sense

Breathing in Harmony with the vastness of the Universe Focusing Attunement
On the forefront of Universal Creativity, surfing the universe in this way!
Just arriving, then, at this focusing session.
Focusing is really a continual arriving.
It's a freshness, an openness to experience as it presents itself.
Ideally, we're coming from a whole sense of ourselves, a grounded quality of presence, which creates stability, wholeness, safety—the ability to hold all kinds of emotions, feelings, and sensations in context so they can be felt and sensed.
So they can continue flowing rather than being atomized, compartmentalized, judged, blamed, analyzed—effectively, not really coming into much of a relationship.
Those are default relationships, autopilot, the reactive quality of mind.
Focusing is living at the forefront, surfing life—you could say, surfing the tsunamis, surfing tiny, rolling waves.
You could even say it's a bit of a thrill—living life from this vitality, from this richness.
Appreciating the full meaning of feelings, emotions, energies running through the body.
Resonating with nature, with the birds, with the trees, with the sky and the clouds, resonating with your loved and cherished friends, partners, animals.
Resonating with the moon and the stars.
Resonating with each breath, in and out—precious life.
As this is being offered right now, we sit on the forefront of 13.8 billion years of the creation of the solar system.
This planet—we're a product of that.
In a way, it's a blink compared to all that time, if that.
Such an amazing coincidence to have this life.
As it senses the ground, sensing the space around the body that goes up into the stars.
Sensing the shape of the body from the skin's perspective as it breathes in harmony with the vastness of things.
And up to 13.8 billion years—what has it got inside it?
What's alive here?
What has it produced? What's the effect?
Just checking in with all of that in you.
Something there, something wanting, some care, some attention, some acknowledgment.
Something tired, something vital.
Something just as it is—no label.
In the forefront of this universal creativity.
Surfing the universe in this way.

Breathing in Harmony with vastness of the Universe Attunement

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