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non-judgmental awareness

July 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment


“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~thich nhat hahn


Ahhhhhh – to be in non-judgmental awareness is a lovely vacation of sorts. It is a getaway from the push and pull of things. When I am here all that crosses my “virtual desk of life” is not labeled or catogorized or responded to…only experienced as exactly what it is in it’s wholeness. In that moment I am the witness.


Not an easy task I realize, but a fun game to play. The apparatus I find most useful in getting there is an open heart. With my heart wide open things expand in their meaning and I find insights in the most common of things.  When I can be in this space life gets larger and is more path-worthy. It is in non-judgmental awareness I find myself more strongly attuned to those subtler senses of intuition & perception.

This all reminds me of the beginning credits in old movies. This movie was filmed in CinemaScope. Not really sure what Cinemascope means, but for me it feels like the picture will be bigger and better than I had ever experienced in the past. 

This life was “lived in Non-JudgmentalAwareness.” 

That can only be good – right?

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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