Natural Awareness

awareness and energy practices
from the Buddhist and Taoist traditions


George Draffan

Seattle Washington

206-659-1954

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Meditation & Qigong
1st and 3rd Thursdays 7pm
West Seattle

Opening a Path to the Ocean
online conversation ends June 3

Yoga & Meditation
Matt Riggen & George Draffan
June 24 in Rockport WA

Opening to the Path of Awakening
Dan Jorgensen & Claudia Hansson
with George Draffan
July 1-8 in Auburn CA

Body as First Foundation of Awareness
July 8 in Sacramento CA

Natural Clarity & the Path of Freedom
July 20-23 in Van Etten NY

Natural Settling & Moving with Ease
October 20 in Portland OR

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Resources of Interest

Ecstatic Seeing Retreat
Jeff Bickford & Gail Gustafson
May 16 - 20

Unfettered Mind

Kagyu Changchub Chuling

Great Vow Zen Monastery

Northwest Dharma Assoc

 Let the flower of compassion bloom in the soil of kindness.
Tend it with the pure water of equanimity in the cool shade of joy.
~ Longchenpa
Kindly Bent to Ease Us

 

everything is like

a dream

an illusion

an hallucination

a mirage

a reflection in a mirror

an echo

a fairy city

a projection

a water bubble

lightning

a rainbow

Just as the ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, even so this Dhamma has one taste too, the taste of freedom.
~ The Buddha, Uposatha Sutta

 

If stubborn habits of attachment and aversion are not reversed, then meditation is as meaningless as a gopher hibernating in a hole.
~ Jamgon Kongtrul,
Creation and Completion

 

Kindness is in our power,
even when fondness is not.

~ Samuel Johnson

 

You're never too poor
to pay attention.

~ Jim Dodge

 

Where there is fixation
there is error.
~ Jamgon Kongtrul

 

Cast away decisively
Let go with ease
Dismantle thoroughly
Gently let be
~ Serlingpa

 

memento mori
memento vivere

 

Let go of the past.
Let go of the future.
Let go of the present
.
~ Dhammapada 348

 

Lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you and you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
~ Winnie the Pooh

 

bhuta bhutati passato
see what is as it is