Easing Awake with Doug Kraft

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.    

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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.     |  

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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.     | 

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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.  

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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.   

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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, copyright 2020.   This portion is read by Amanda Kimball.  

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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.    

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Resting in the Waves, Chapter 2: This episode offers an introduction to the teachings of the Buddha, how they can be summed up as “everything is in process,” and what that means for us as practitioners.

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.     

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Resting in the Waves, Chapter 1, part 2: This episode examines a spectrum of senses of self, from extreme distortion, through coping mechanisms, to freedom of non-identification with self.

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.    

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Resting in the Waves, Chapter 1, part 1:  This episode examines subconscious phenomena in the brain that influence how we perceive the world around us and our own sense of self.

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.   

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