Healing into Awakening - Episode 5: There's No Life But This One with Jason Shulman

03/31/20 • 3 min

“In true nonduality, we understand that a fish never leaves the water. The fish never comes to the end of the water, even if it is an explorer fish, swimming this way and that. It never comes to the end of the ocean because its nature is to be in the water. The fish and the water are one. As long as we think “Here I am whole, and there I’m not,” we think there is an end to the ocean of self. But truly, there is no end to this ocean.”

-Jason Shulman

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-Jason Shulman

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Healing into Awakening - Episode 4: Sound of the Lamentation of Beings with Jason Shulman

A guide to this poem (with a little help from Wiki): Avalokiteśvara is a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. This bodhisattva is variably depicted, described and portrayed in different cultures as either male or female.In Tibet, he is known as Chenrezig, and in Cambodia as Avloketesvar. In Chinese Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara has evolved into the somewhat different female figure Guanyin, also known in Japan as Kanzeon. The Master the poem speaks about is Ramakrishna, the Bengali teacher who died in 1886. In many ways, he united the dual, theistic path with the avaitic or nondual path. The weeds and the little Rockaway river are all found around my home in New Jersey.

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Healing into Awakening - Episode 6: Evening Prayer by Jason Shulman

I have been a musician and songwriter for most of my adult life. In the last few years, I’ve returned to writing music and composing songs. This song was written a few months before the Covid-19 emergency but it seems to me to embody an attitude we all need to cultivate right now in this time of love and danger. Consider it an adult lullaby with a sidecar of kindness.

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Written by Jason Shulman

Performed on April 3, 2020