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Archive for 2023-09

Summary and highlights

Thinking

Collections

  1. "The Headless Way" session for One Mindful Breath (added 2023-09-17)
  2. Self-consciousness and the self (added 2023-09-01)

Longer form

  1. Valued Action, September 2023 (added 2023-09-03, updated 2023-09-24)
  2. Formative Influences (added 2023-09-01)

Posts

  1. Absolute control of our environment is not a desirable or possible goal. We are in, of, and acted on by, the world. In 🌘 Nondual, ⭕️ Tmwt. Added 03-09-2023.
  2. Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation. In ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 03-09-2023.
  3. "We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains." In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 14-09-2023.
  4. All of reality has interdeterminacy, granularity, relativity. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 15-09-2023.
  5. "ego-reframe" more than "ego death": revealing the interconnected relationships of self and reality, rather than a process of erasure and reconstruction. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  6. Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 15-09-2023.
  7. "I don't know." Remind yourself of the fact, not try to make it know. In 🌘 Nondual, 🐌 Slowness. Added 15-09-2023.
  8. Knowledge is intrinsically relational. We can't access reality independent of the observer. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 15-09-2023.
  9. Meditation merely needs to be allowed, not created. In 🙆 Acceptance, 📍 Experience. Added 15-09-2023.
  10. Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement. In 🙆 Acceptance, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  11. Sense the indefinite, flexible, indeterminate boundaries. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  12. Space and time are like the ocean: flat from a distance, more turbulent and frothy the closer you get. In . Added 15-09-2023.
  13. The "I am" prior to all. In ☸️ Buddhism, ☯️ Daoism, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  14. The more true the identity is, the less defined, until it finally drops away. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  15. The self is a modality of action, not the seat of our identity. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  16. The self is a public event and a private experience. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  17. The space in which reality reveals itself. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 15-09-2023.
  18. Your search for happiness is what makes you feel miserable. In 🙆 Acceptance, 📍 Experience, 👤 Human. Added 15-09-2023.
  19. An empty signifier with no fixed referent. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 20-09-2023.
  20. Manifestation, performance, function, but no centre. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 20-09-2023.
  21. Use the body as a visual path to your headless nature. In 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self. Added 20-09-2023.
  22. Happiness can't be acquired, only revealed. In 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 22-09-2023.
  23. Rest and allow attention to settle on itself, not any object. In . Added 22-09-2023.
  24. The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness. In 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 22-09-2023.
  25. Be kind to the kind. Be kind to the unkind. In ☯️ Daoism. Added 23-09-2023.
  26. "Not knowing is most intimate. In ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 23-09-2023.
  27. Who were you before that (part of your identity) existed? In 🙋 Self. Added 27-09-2023.
  28. What we resist, persists. In 🙆 Acceptance, 👤 Human. Added 29-09-2023.
  29. Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer. In 🙆 Acceptance, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self. Added 30-09-2023.
  30. Look for your head. In 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self. Added 30-09-2023.
  31. Take three long slow breaths. In 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 30-09-2023.

Noting

Book notes

  1. Being Aware of Being Aware.
  2. Wake Up Now.

Reading

  1. Starter Villain by Scalzi, John. Read 29-09-2023, rated 4/5.
  2. Children of Ruin by Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Read 26-09-2023, rated 5/5.
  3. Being Aware of Being Aware by Spira, Rupert. Read 18-09-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson Being Aware of Being Aware.
  4. Mammoths at the Gates by Vo, Nghi. Read 14-09-2023, rated 5/5.
  5. Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Rovelli, Carlo. Read 10-09-2023, rated 5/5.
  6. Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 by Le Guin, Ursula K.. Read 08-09-2023, rated 4/5.
  7. Wake Up Now by Bodian, Stephan. Read 05-09-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson Wake Up Now.

Arting

2023 09 Sketches

Gaming

  1. The Messenger on PS5. Rated 4/5.
  2. Tchia on PS5. Rated 4/5.
  3. Dodgeball Academia on PS5. Rated 4/5.
  4. Armoured Core 6 on PS5. Rated 5/5.

Musicing

  1. Rjp 001 (2023-09-11)
  2. Mfr 001 (2023-09-11)