Inspired by the potential of living in a lucid world we run this website.
On lucid-living you will find information about various inspiring events, ongoing groups, gatherings and talks in the UK and across the globe as well as a list of links to interesting websites, books and other materials.
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Inspired by the potential of living in a lucid world we run this website.
You will find information about ongoing groups, events, gatherings and talks primarily in the UK as well as a list of links to interesting websites, audio and video, books and and people we find inspiring. We update the blog regularly with inspiring articles and our own thoughts and realisations about awakening, enlightenment and life.
We invite you to share your comments, and we would love for you to join us at one of our upcoming events!
I am so captivated by the crossover between the neuroscientists and the meditators. The Upaya Zen Center linked below has graciously made their conferences available online. My fascination and curiosity with the brain, mind and consciousness has never been greater. The map of how we think, how we are programed and how we transform has never been clearer and yet all the science still wonderously leads to the Mystery that is beyond maps and any explanation. I have never felt more at home in this Insecurity.
This link is from the second Zen Brain conference (part 2 of 19) from the site so if you’re really interested search for the previous year, as well.
Just recently have I come across Anthony de Mello – and I can’t stop listening, reading and watching his videos. His words touch me deeply. Another layer of feelings, emotions, identification, beliefs, ideas, concepts that I had no clue were (still) in my system start to surface in the presence of his sharing. It is within this seeing that I experience a liberation from the confines of conditioning, and feel a delightful expansion into Being.
Below you can read one of his many articles and watch some audio/videos. You can find more on www.demello.org, www.awareness.tk.
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“The scriptures are always hinting of that, but you’ll never understand a word of what the scriptures are saying until you wake up. Sleeping people read the scriptures and crucify the Messiah on the basis of them. You’ve got to wake up to make sense out of the scriptures. When you do wake up, they make sense. So does reality. But you’ll never be able to put it into words. You’d rather do something? Continue Reading »
In the past months and years I’ve made millions of decisions based on fear, based on preventing something I don’t want from happening. The prospect of encountering these things I fear fills me with so much resistance and dread that I can spend hours turning them over and over in my mind, rehearsing scenarios and imagined conversations, trying to impose some control on the approaching chaos.
I’m now noticing that although these things that I fear are convincingly scary on approach, they are usually much emptier upon arrival. i’m driving towards mirages that look so scary as they’re getting nearer, growing bigger and bigger, but then, when i actually reach hem, i pass straight through. The experience of the thing I’ve been so scared of is totally different from my imagined version. I can handle much more than my mind thinks I can. So when it finally arrives it’s often like, oh…is that it? Continue Reading »
In the past weeks anger has come up quite strongly as a topic in our weekly Sharing Group. With some people it feels very real, present in the moment and relevant to explore deeper. Some others seem to have an invested interest in the power of this emotion, however, they are not genuinely angry in the moment. It seems like there is an idea that takes over the actual experience. The idea looks for anger, digs it up, looks to express it, exaggerates it, all in the name of therapy or tapping into a source of power. But it’s false power. Continue Reading »
There are a myriad of traditions, teachings and systems easily accessible to us these days. I feel very grateful for this variety, which supports my unfolding through study and continuous opening to more insight, depth and knowledge.
Back in March I went on a week long meditation retreat with Taoist Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis. It was a wonderful experience. Bruce guided us artfully through the Taoist Water Method of Dissolving into Inner Space. To me this practice is a true gift, especially if things are going not quite as ego would like them to go.
A refreshing reminder that this is NOT an illusion. Do not attempt to adjust your TV sets. The manifest world is coming in crystal clear and ultimately not separate.
Not to see yourself as less than anyone or anything in the universe, but to be sure you do not see yourself as superior. You may have more money; you may be better educated; you maybe more sensitive; more conscious, but better -- no. We are all equal. There is only one. ~ Paul Lowe
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