What is the Mind Dojo?
The Mind Dojo is a space for exploring intuitive knowledge, emergent self-awareness, and the depths of the human experience of open-ended insight-inspired creative intelligence. It's a possibility wherein we playfully embrace being stuck (stuck - being limited by or arrested to highly repetitive reactivity) not as a problem to be solved but as an opportunity for exploration of thought and consciousness wherein we do nothing at all. Here we discover everything changes when we show up in this exploration of —doing— nothing.
What might emerge if we approached our experiences with the fresh beginner's eyes of genuine curiosity and openness? Could our understanding of ourselves and the world shift if we looked in this direction?
Understanding "Stuck"
In the context of the Mind Dojo, "stuck" refers to the sensation of:
- Feeling trapped or limited in options
- Being unable to move in new, vibrant directions in life
- Experiencing a sense of stagnation or repetition in thoughts and behaviors
This experience is a common trigger for habitual reactive responses, which perpetuate the feeling of being stuck.
What if being "stuck" wasn't a problem to solve but a gateway to deeper understanding? How might our experience change if we approached these sensations with curiosity rather than resistance?
Illusionary Nature of Thought
At the root of feeling stuck lies our confusion: mistaking our thoughts for reality itself, mistaking our thoughts as having substance or being real objects. We often become so absorbed in the content of our thoughts and pursuit of our thinking that we scarcely notice or recognize all of this as mental constructs that arrest our experience of consciousness to the shapes of our structured thinking, our conditioned or conditional mind.
From the Mind Dojo perspective, thoughts and the sensations of thought are our experiences emerging into consciousness, continuously emerging and dissipating, empty of inherent meaning. We track thought that is disquieting to us so we are ever mindful of what is emerging so we can —do— something about it.
What if our thoughts aren't quite what we think or believe them to be? Would our experience change if we saw thoughts as fleeting, ephemeral occurrences rather than solid objective realities? Can we really stand within ourselves and be present with our experience of thought and be —doing— nothing?
The Mind Dojo Experience
The Mind Dojo is who we are already. We are already wired to experience profoundly impactful intuitive knowledge. We don't need to do anything to experience who we already are. In fact, it is not until we step back from all of our getting somewhere that we discover something much more interesting about how we are innately wired.
In its essence, the Mind Dojo is the space for exploring who we already are. When we see past the busyness of our "normal," we expand in understanding; we discover that so much of our individual experience is not mysterious at all and requires no action at all. We see our hand in the experience of experience, which we see as just occurring, or as, happening to us.
The Mind Dojo is an invitation to explore our experience of thought, consciousness, and mind without the pretense of agenda—an invitation to experience the ever-expanding sense of meta-awareness consciously. We simply show up in the spirit of play and we playfully embrace being stuck as an opportunity to explore empty promises of volition, as it's playing out as our arrested experience of the nature of thought and consciousness.
The Profound Nature of Touch
At the heart of the Mind Dojo experience is a radical understanding of "touch." This is not just the touch we're familiar with, not just the simple act of a hand brushing against a surface. This is touch in its essence, an exploration into touch both as our most radical capacity of expanding consciousness and in what is available to us when we open ourselves to immersively and wholeheartedly touching. Touch, in this context, is:
- The essence of mind
- The silent symphony that formulates our every experience
- The foundation of thought emerging into consciousness
- The unbreakable interconnectedness and experience of the universe
- The bedrock from which understanding of life itself emerges
What if touch goes beyond physical sensation? How might our experience of life change if we saw touch as the very fabric of our consciousness?