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  1. The Whole (added 2023-05-23, updated 2023-06-18)
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  1. No things are truly independently existing. In ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual. Added 04-06-2023.
  2. Pay attention to interior and exterior, individual and collective. In ☯️ Daoism, 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual. Added 04-06-2023.
  3. Polarities have rewards of focusing and risks of neglecting either pole. In ☯️ Daoism, 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual. Added 04-06-2023.
  4. The brain's simulation of the world needs a phenomenal self. But it's only a model. In 📍 Experience, 👤 Human. Added 04-06-2023.
  5. We don't experience the world directly. In 📍 Experience, 👤 Human. Added 04-06-2023.
  6. 4E cognition. Cognition can can be embodied, embedded, enacted, extended. In 📍 Experience, 👤 Human. Added 07-06-2023.
  7. Many metaphysical questions aren't conducive to liberation. They just lead to further speculation. In . Added 07-06-2023.
  8. The consequences of our choices extend far and wide, in many directions. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 07-06-2023.
  9. The Middle Way. Both indulgence and deprivation are equally useless for liberation. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🐌 Slowness. Added 07-06-2023.
  10. Beneath our uniqueness is commonality. In 👤 Human, ❤️ Love. Added 08-06-2023.
  11. Dissolve conflict (not avoid it) by bringing non-reactivity. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 08-06-2023.
  12. Don't reduce a person to their temporary function. In ☸️ Buddhism, ☯️ Daoism. Added 08-06-2023.
  13. Every person is the protagonist in their own story. In 👤 Human, 🙋 Self. Added 08-06-2023.
  14. Mindful presence, mindful response. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 08-06-2023.
  15. More important than what's happening is how you meet it. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 08-06-2023.
  16. Quiet the mind, open the heart. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 08-06-2023.
  17. The movement of thoughts in your mind creates a narrative, a self. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 08-06-2023.
  18. What connects us is more powerful than what divides us. In 👤 Human, ❤️ Love. Added 08-06-2023.
  19. What happens when you bring compassion to the feeling? In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 08-06-2023.
  20. Your deeper identity is that relaxed, alive, stillness. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 08-06-2023.
  21. Be, accept, the whole of your experience, not just some of it. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 11-06-2023.
  22. Be interested in what's happening, not caught up in it and identified with it. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 11-06-2023.
  23. Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose at hand. In ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual. Added 14-06-2023.
  24. And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🌘 Nondual. Added 14-06-2023.
  25. Avoid excess, extravagance, arrogance. In ☯️ Daoism, 👤 Human. Added 14-06-2023.
  26. Be as careful at the end as at the beginning. In ☯️ Daoism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 14-06-2023.
  27. Find just enough space to notice what's going on. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 14-06-2023.
  28. Have little thought of self, and as few desires as possible. In ☯️ Daoism, 🙋 Self. Added 14-06-2023.
  29. Relax into stillness. Light and easy, not rigid. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 14-06-2023.
  30. Rest in the wider space of awareness. In 🙆 Acceptance, 📍 Experience. Added 14-06-2023.
  31. Simply rest as that which is aware. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self. Added 14-06-2023.
  32. Take the lower position, the root, the base. In ☯️ Daoism, 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 14-06-2023.
  33. We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience. In 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 14-06-2023.
  34. All development is envelopment: transcend and include. In 👤 Human, 🙋 Self. Added 15-06-2023.
  35. Don't dismiss what you find just because it doesn't match your existing model. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 15-06-2023.
  36. Problems start when you dismiss or deny a perspective. In 👤 Human. Added 15-06-2023.
  37. We interpret states according to our stage. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 15-06-2023.
  38. What things are depends on the range of the observer. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 15-06-2023.
  39. Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 16-06-2023.
  40. Find peace, humility in our smallness, our luck to be alive. In ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 16-06-2023.
  41. Recognize, once again, that life is bigger than we are. In 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual. Added 16-06-2023.
  42. Experiencing before understanding, defining, or remembering. In 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual. Added 22-06-2023.
  43. The Eightfold Path; (Ethics) Right Speech, Action, Livelihood; (Meditation) Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration; (Wisdom) View, Intention. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 24-06-2023.
  44. The Four Noble Truths: there is suffering; the cause of suffering is craving; there is an end to suffering; the way is the eightfold path. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 24-06-2023.
  45. The Fourfold Task: Embrace life; Let go of (instinctive) reactivity; See the ceasing of reactivity; Act from a place of clarity. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 24-06-2023.
  46. Gently let go of the idea, the feeling, of there being a meditator. In 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 30-06-2023.
  47. Notice and orient towards the underlying unity and wholeness. In 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual. Added 30-06-2023.

Noting

Book notes

  1. Waking Up to What You Do.
  2. Shinto: The Kami Way.
  3. Ruined by Design.
  4. The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction.
  5. How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism.

Reading

  1. Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Somerville, Alice Te Punga. Read 30-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  2. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by Corey, James S.A.. Read 29-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  3. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)  by Roanhorse, Rebecca. Read 28-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  4. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Leckie, Ann. Read 28-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  5. Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Roth, Veronica. Read 27-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  6. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by Scalzi, John. Read 27-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  7. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)  by Okorafor, Nnedi. Read 27-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  8. Waking Up to What You Do by Rizzetto, Diane Eshin. Read 24-06-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson Waking Up to What You Do.
  9. Shinto: The Kami Way by Ono, Sokyo. Read 17-06-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson Shinto: The Kami Way.
  10. Personal Velocity by Miller, Rebecca. Read 16-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  11. Sleep and the Soul by Egan, Greg. Read 16-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  12. The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Collins, Billy. Read 12-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  13. Ruined by Design by Monteiro, Mike. Read 10-06-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson Ruined by Design.
  14. The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction by Wilber, Ken. Read 06-06-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction.
  15. Season of Skulls (New Management #3) by Stross, Charles. Read 06-06-2023, rated 5/5.
  16. Tempest, Kae by On Connection. Read 05-06-2023, rated 4/5.
  17. How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Usher, M D. Read 01-06-2023, rated 3/5. My noteson How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism.

Arting

2023 06 Sketches

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Gaming

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    Musicing

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