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Archive for 2023-05

Summary and highlights

Thinking

Collections

  1. The Tao (added 2023-05-30)
  2. Free Will and Self (added 2023-05-30)
  3. Why can't it be both? (added 2023-05-24)
  4. The Matter With Things (added 2023-05-24)
  5. Not having a problem (added 2023-03-30, updated 2023-05-24)

Longer form

  1. Valued Action, May 2023 (added 2023-05-07, updated 2023-05-29)
  2. Money and companies (added 2023-05-24)

Posts

  1. We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology. In 👤 Human. Added 02-05-2023.
  2. All models are wrong, but some are useful. In 👤 Human. Added 05-05-2023.
  3. A good life is rich and interesting, but not always happy. In ☸️ Buddhism, 💪 Resilience. Added 06-05-2023.
  4. Beyond thought and self, not thinking-about-not-self. In ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 06-05-2023.
  5. Cognitive science knows that thoughts are transformed interpretations, not a perfect rendition of reality. In 📍 Experience. Added 06-05-2023.
  6. Do fewer (and fewer) things that make people (including you) miserable. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 06-05-2023.
  7. Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 06-05-2023.
  8. Have a handful of principles, hold them close, practice them continually. In . Added 06-05-2023.
  9. Imbalance is purely perceptual. In 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites. Added 06-05-2023.
  10. It doesn't matter how many grips a wrestler knows, as long as they win. In 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 06-05-2023.
  11. Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 06-05-2023.
  12. Non-forgiveness comes from feeling separate, being self-centered. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual. Added 06-05-2023.
  13. Our emotions transform preferences into demands. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 06-05-2023.
  14. Practice is about moving from experiences to experiencing. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🌊 Motion, 🌘 Nondual. Added 06-05-2023.
  15. Practice is not having a problem with the endless stream of problems. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 06-05-2023.
  16. Reality in all domains in composed of holons: wholes that are parts of other wholes. In ⭕️ Tmwt. Added 06-05-2023.
  17. Recognise unhappiness, without trying to change it or fix it. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism. Added 06-05-2023.
  18. "Selfing" has interacting existential, psychological, and social layers. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 06-05-2023.
  19. Slowly, painfully, reconcile to life. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism. Added 06-05-2023.
  20. The thinking mind interprets, not experiences. In 📍 Experience, 👤 Human. Added 06-05-2023.
  21. The thinking mind works to save energy and avoid the discomfort of being wrong. In 👤 Human, 🙋 Self. Added 06-05-2023.
  22. The thought that life shouldn't be a struggle is painful, so we try to escape it. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism. Added 06-05-2023.
  23. We can't expect the thinking mind to (break the illusion of the self) by not-thinking. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 06-05-2023.
  24. We can't think in a nondual way, only notice when we're not doing it. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual. Added 06-05-2023.
  25. We can't think our way out of thinking, only observe it, from outside it. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual. Added 06-05-2023.
  26. What's real doesn't disappear when we look carefully. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 06-05-2023.
  27. It depends. (On the context) In 👤 Human, ↔️ Opposites, 💪 Resilience. Added 22-05-2023.
  28. We learn, grow, in hierarchical spirals. In 🌊 Motion, ⭕️ Tmwt. Added 22-05-2023.
  29. Beware desire, it destroys peace. In ☸️ Buddhism, 💪 Resilience, 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 28-05-2023.
  30. Beware escapism, it accrues interest. In ☸️ Buddhism, 💪 Resilience, 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 28-05-2023.
  31. Do everything with two hands. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 28-05-2023.
  32. Notice, harmonise, and integrate patterns in polarities. In ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites. Added 28-05-2023.
  33. Polarities create friction when they feel like opposites, contradictions. In ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites. Added 28-05-2023.

Noting

Book notes

  1. The No Self, No Problem Workbook.
  2. A Theory of Everything.

Reading

  1. People Person by Cho, Joanna. Read 30-05-2023, rated 4/5.
  2. 40 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Read 29-05-2023, rated 4/5.
  3. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Read 19-05-2023, rated 5/5.
  4. The No Self, No Problem Workbook by Niebauer, Chris. Read 03-05-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson The No Self, No Problem Workbook.
  5. A Theory of Everything by Wilber, Ken. Read 02-05-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson A Theory of Everything.

Arting

2023 05 Taijitu Ish

Gaming

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch. Rated 5/5.
  2. Tunic on PS5. Rated 5/5.

Musicing

    Nothing this month.