Date: 09/27/2025 09/28/2025
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Sitting Meditation
Daily Principles to Be Observed by One Who Is Awake
Awakening is not a special state apart from life, but the capacity to remain clear and unconfused within ordinary living. A truly awakened person does not rely on experiences or elevate views, but abides steadily within daily actions. These principles are not imposed rules, but natural expressions of awareness, ensuring wisdom is not dissipated, compassion is not distorted, and practice remains grounded in reality.
1. Principles of the Body: Grounding Action in Awareness
1.Simple and conscious conduct
Actions are neither exaggerated nor withdrawn. Walking, eating, and working are performed with clarity, preventing the body from becoming an unconscious instrument of habit.
2.Respecting bodily rhythm
Neither exhaustion nor indulgence governs behavior. Rest, nourishment, and effort follow actual needs, supporting stable awareness.
3.Avoiding harm under the guise of practice
Extreme treatment of the body is not mistaken for diligence. Clarity requires balance and health.
4.Extending mindfulness into movement
Every action becomes a continuation of awareness, integrating practice into daily life.
2. Principles of Speech: Returning Language to Truth and Care
1.No falsehood or embellishment
Speech is not used to please or control, but remains aligned with reality, free from exaggeration or concealment.
2.Timely and measured speech
Neither compulsive expression nor strategic silence is favored. Speaking or refraining arises from genuine necessity.
3.No authority through “awakening”
Insight is not used to judge others or establish hierarchy. Speech carries no concealed superiority.
4.Speech as a stabilizing force
Words are spoken to clarify and settle the mind, not to create confusion or dependence.
3. Principles of Mind: Not Abiding in States or Views
1.No attachment to mental conditions
Calm is not clung to, distraction is not resisted. All states are recognized as conditional.
2.Awakening is not an identity
Awakening is not who one is, but the ongoing absence of confusion. Fixation turns clarity into error.
3.Continuous awareness of subtle grasping
Even in stability, subtle craving and pride are observed so they do not quietly grow.
4.Returning the mind to present reality
Neither memory nor anticipation dominates attention. The mind stays close to what is actually occurring.
4. Principles Toward Others: Relating with Equality
1.No hierarchy of practice
Each person moves within their own conditions. Stages do not define worth.
2.Respecting individual timing
No coercion, interference, or forced guidance. Each path unfolds naturally.
3.Clarity within relationships
Compassion does not mean indulgence, and understanding does not dissolve boundaries.
4.Teaching through presence
Transformation arises more from embodied clarity than from persuasion.
5. Principles of Living: Awakening as Everyday Life
1.No withdrawal from responsibility
Family, work, and social roles are not abandoned, but inhabited without confusion.
2.No division between practice and life
Work, relationships, and ordinary tasks are all fields of practice.
3.Ongoing self-correction
Whenever pride, dullness, or rigidity appears, attention returns to awareness itself.
4.Wisdom in service of reality
Awakening does not escape the world, but reduces harm and increases clarity within it.
Conclusion
The daily principles of one who is awake are not imposed disciplines, but the natural order of awareness expressed in life. When body, speech, and mind remain grounded in clarity, awakening ceases to be an experience and becomes a stable, genuine, and sustainable way of living.
