{"id":37905,"date":"2025-12-31T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/?p=37905"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:25:06","slug":"awake-here-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/en\/2025\/12\/31\/awake-here-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Awake here now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-26c5dc0dda5cb02986a50df144b761d2\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">Awake here now <br>after we slept <br>then awoke <br>so we are  <br>awake <br>how much <br>not sleeping <br>nor sleepwalking <br>but awakened <br>woken up <br>somehow <br>more or less <br>here and now <br>in this moment <br>not before nor after <br>here in this very body <br>with breath flowing<br>in and out again <br>and in and out <br>continually <br>in cycles <br>awake <br>and aware <br>a real possibility <br>to embrace what is <br>observe attentively <br>reality&#8217;s creation <br>in one&#8217;s body <br>and heart-mind <br>awake here now! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" id=\"up-down\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Balancing up and down&#8221; &#8212; extensive calm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-08-8GTA-LOLOREACHMIN.mp3\" preload=\"metadata\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/tonalities\/reach-or-harmonic-heptatonalities\/loloreachmin\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\">LoloReachMin<\/mark><\/a><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> on D &#8212; 8-string guitar &amp; tanpura &#8212; 3:58<em> <\/em>&#8212; August 2023 &#8212; most successful Tonalibus piece on <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3JiD2vdPrQKW5cQ1kzVUfR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Spotify<\/mark><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e882d14746045deedd50203fab9649d0\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">A few pointers to be awake here now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-26263bdad5190cb693551c3cccff6975\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Whatever [one] frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0dbe5139860aaa5e8b909c42a59ee7e3\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;A master of the courses of thought&#8230; will think whatever thought he wishes to think and he will not think any thought that he does not wish to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-56d92ecb8fd5379916afac5d50d00a32\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;He has severed craving, flung off the fetters, and with the complete penetration of conceit he has made an end of suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-09b19e6371d3607e13a3af671bcc7bfe\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">\u2014 <em>Majjhima Nik\u0101ya \u2013 the middle length discourses of the Buddha<\/em>, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu \u00d1\u0101\u1e47amoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi \u2013 Dvedh\u0101vitakka Sutta, 19.6, p. 208 and Vitakkasa\u1e47\u1e6dh\u0101na Sutta, 20.8, p. 213-214<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c0b851c5ae7d2d6460e84c2744a27890\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">Grateful for the beauty awake here and now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-1024x474.jpg\" alt=\"Awake here now\" class=\"wp-image-38093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-1024x474.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-1536x711.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-2048x948.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-18x8.jpg 18w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_155848020_iOS-xc-1320x611.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What do you see in this cloud formation? &#8212; 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