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Re-awakening the Mind of a Child: Loving Kindness

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Welcome
Composition
Absence of Entification
Absence of Unnecessary Conditioning
Absence of Unnecessary Thinking
Absence of Time and
   its Perception

Absence of Selfish Anger
Absence of Unnecessary
   Memory

Attachment Theory
Belief Systems
Belief Systems Types
Belief Systems Lie
Reality Types Realist
Reality Types Idealist
Reality Types Liberal
Reality Types Conservative
Reality Types Matrix
Reality Types Diagonal
Reality Types Presenting-
   Shadow Personality

Reality Types
   Collapsing Personalities

Reality Types Absolute Reality
Reality Types Awareness
The Human Condition
Human Condition
   Essential Scripts

Human Condition Facts of Life
Human Condition Facts of Life
   Admonition

Human Condition
   Secondary Gain

Human Condition Fear:
   The Foundation

Tibetan Meditation 1
Tibetan Meditation 2
Alternative: The Belief Closet
Appreciating I
Appreciating II
Re-Awakened
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Index
As Infants ...

Welcome and hello! Glad we can get together ...

Have you ever looked at an infant and sense preciousness?
Then the child smiles ever so innocently?

When the child cries, unhappy because of wetness or hunger or a diaper too tight,
and then the child eases into a gleeful smile and maybe even a giggle,
when the source of discomfort is comforted away...
you, too, can perceive the world with wonderment and awe
each moment being a new beginning.
Be resilient and bounce with joy.

Does not this childlike joy bring a sense of good will and peace to you?

We, also, can bring loving kindness to those in our midst just by a simple change in perspective.

Let us recall a Zen experience:
Emptiness and form, mutually penetrate to such a degree as
to become virtually indistinguishable.
Our polarized conceptual notions of the difference between
the Absolute and the relative,
the Real and the apparent — dissolve.
This final collapse of dualistic thinking catalyzes the experience
of inner freedom and spontaneous action known
as the play of the child-like sage - within the illusory world.

Dongshan's 5th Rank edit and adapted from Dongshan Five Ranks

Let us, then, explore the Mind of a Child.
Let us whisk away our neurotic self-centered tendencies that invite pain and suffering
not only to others but also to our selves.
In but a few short hours we can re-awaken our own natural mind of a Child and
bring peace and joy into Life, our own and the lives of those around us.
How? Just as easy as when we let our selves fall into sleep. Let go.

What to do next? Just click on the tab below for the next screen.

Next: What makes-up the Mind of a Child?

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