Life Living Itself Susanne Marie

There is a very simple method to realizing your true nature, and that is in order to wake up and have truth stabilize within, you have to not only desire it with your whole heart, you also have to one pointedly work towards it. There is a saying in Zen that the Buddha lies at the base of the hedgegrow. What this is pointing to is that truth is locatable, bit in order to find …

In order to advance spiritually, we do need to open in trust to the inner guidance that is intent on bringing you back home to your undivided true nature. In this meeting, you are invited more fully into letting go of control, so that divine intelligence can support your inner unfoldment. A poem from Shar which emerged following the online meeting: One day walking life, next moment walking life. One day loving life, next moment …

Susanne and friends exploring the topic of how the impact of crisis can be met within the realm of awakening. Living our daily lives under ordinary conditions, when the unexpected never materializes and is very far from our active mind, often doesn’t reveal undiscovered territory within one’s conditioning. This reveals itself in its full, if often unwanted, glory when a major incident takes place. The opportunity held within such times of one’s life unearths hidden …

Everybody contains inside of them an inner spiritual guidance system, which when aligned with, helps orient one to following the path that best servces your awakening. Learning how to open in trust to your inner knowing is much of what the spiritual journey is about. ~ Online Meeting hosted by Open Circle Center

Our desire to remember the truth of our being and the fact that we are one with life, is the spiritual seekers journey. In honor of Earth Day (and everyday), we take the opportunity to remember together our interconnection. Coming back to our true nature is for the most part an individual journey, and yet there are times when community (Sangha), is highly supportive. There is real connective power contained in group energy, and when …

Whether you are an advanced practitioner, or just entering the spiritual stream, one can always use the simple (yet profound), essential teaching of: Stop, Rest, & Allow. It is easy to get caught up with flowery or complicated pointers, thinking that realization must be difficult to attain and in the end, meant for the few. This is not true. But it does take a certain type of dedication and willingness to unstrip oneself of imagination …