Recovering Our Still Wokeness
Andrew Shugyo Daijo Bonnici, Ph.D.
Doctor Of Humanistic Depth Psychology, Holistic Transpersonal Zen Counselor, Founding Roshi (Zen Master) At Jotoku-Ji Zen Temple. My Amazon Books Are "Boundless Intimacy" And "Peaceful Light."
Dear Friends, Students, Clients, And Colleagues,
This is my teaching on 'The Still Woke Intelligence of Our Core-Self.' May you study and practice this teaching to daily enhance your own wellness, happiness, and success, to enrich the lives and relationships of those you love, and to advance the health, peace, and behavioral wisdom of all human beings.
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Recover The Woke Intelligent Light Of Your Core-Self
All human beings are endowed with the still intelligent light of their core-Self from the moment of birth. As infants and young toddlers, we experienced the still intelligent light of our core-Self rising up from the center-point of gravity within our bodies, just below our navel. We felt the still intelligent light of our core-Self before we knew our name, before we could talk and think with words, and before we knew ourselves as separate individuals with unique personalities.??
As infants and young toddlers, the still intelligent light of core-Self felt like a peaceful calming light that existed inside our bodies while being everywhere all at once. We experienced our core-Self just like this because the center point of gravity within our bodies intersects with an 'absolutely still sub-quantum intelligence' that exists everywhere all at once throughout the infinite universe. This is why we originally felt the still arising of core-Self as our boundless intimacy with all the beings and things in our everyday life, as well as the universe as a whole.
As infants and young toddlers, we simply lived and loved from the still peaceful light of our core-Self while daily enjoying our boundless intimacy with all beings and things far beyond thinking. This was a time that we felt wholly refreshed and revitalized with each passing moment. This was a time when we felt an ever-fresh joy and ecstasy just to be naturally woke and passionately alive. This was a time that we simply lived a life of deep trust in the great functioning wholeness of our body, the great functioning wholeness of each moment, and the great functioning wholeness of the infinite universe itself.??
As young toddlers, our life of deep trust began to recede into the background of our felt body awareness when we started to learn our names and how to talk and think with words. As we became a name inside our brain, we felt like an individual who was separate from others and everything around us. We call this name that lives inside our brain, our ego-self. When we started to feel like a separate and named ego-self within our brain, we lost touch with the center-point of gravity where the peaceful light and boundless intimacy of our core-Self exists. This is how we forgot about the still intelligent light of our core-Self and became an ego-self that constantly thinks and talks about "I, me, and?mine."??
Although our infant/toddler life of deep trust and boundless intimacy was severely diminished by the development of our ego-self and our thinking mind, it is completely recoverable. When we recover our pristine life of deep trust by daily sensing and fully being our still center-point of gravity, we will once again enjoy the peaceful light and boundless intimacy of our core-Self.?Then we will experientially recall that our core-Self is a still intelligent light that has always been happening at the center of our whole body while being everywhere all at once.
As we bodily recall our core-Self and our pristine life of deep trust, we will begin to value and prioritize our boundless intimacy with each other, with all beings and things in our everyday life, with the dynamic balance and wholeness of nature, and with the infinite universe as a whole. Then each still and timeless moment of core-Self will be a moment where we naturally soften attachment to our separate ego-self identity, to our word-thinking mind, to all our religious and political beliefs, and to our ceaseless mental chatter about 'I, me, and mine.’
When we experience all of this, we will be able to live, love, work, and play together from the peaceful light and boundless intimacy of our core-Self. Then we will spontaneously treat each other with mutual respect, speak to each other truthfully, think together honestly, and listen to each other with a sincere and open heart.?
__DrB Copyright ? 12/28/2022__
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With blessings, Dr. Bonnici???
?? Below are my two life-transforming books on the Boundless Intimacy and Peaceful Light of your core-Self.
??Boundless Intimacy Teaches you how to recover and easefully apply the still intelligent light of your core-Self in everyday life and relationships. Click the link below or the book image to look inside: Amazon.Com
??Peaceful Light: Teaches you how to be naturally loving, easefully responsible, mentally optimistic, emphatically inclusive, and emotionally resilient while wholly being and enjoying the intelligent and timeless moment of Now. Amazon.Com