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Archive for 2023-10

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Thinking

Collections

  1. Grips for the Critic / Coach coin (added 2023-10-10)
  2. Buddhist ideas (added 2023-05-31, updated 2023-10-04)
  3. Inner Critic (added 2023-10-01)
  4. Grips, October 2023 (added 2023-10-01)

Longer form

  1. Big Ideas (added 2023-10-28)
  2. Integral Insights maps (added 2023-10-23)

Posts

  1. In between any two opposites lies emptiness, creative potential. In ☸️ Buddhism, ↔️ Opposites. Added 03-10-2023.
  2. My Practice / Path: meditation, study, action. In 👤 Human. Added 03-10-2023.
  3. Pay close attention to the consequences of your behaviour. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 03-10-2023.
  4. Right Mindfulness (including Right Action (including Right Speech)). In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human. Added 03-10-2023.
  5. The Five Hindrances: Sensual Desire; Ill Will; Sloth; Restlessness; Doubt. In ☸️ Buddhism. Added 03-10-2023.
  6. The Six Perfections: Generosity; Morality; Patience; Effort; Meditation; Wisdom. In ☸️ Buddhism. Added 03-10-2023.
  7. Conquer by quiescence, by getting underneath. In ☯️ Daoism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 09-10-2023.
  8. Forgive yourself for the barriers you put up. In 👤 Human, ❤️ Love. Added 09-10-2023.
  9. Have patient determination: just commit to the next step on the path. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 09-10-2023.
  10. Humans have evolved to do "the next most comfortable thing." In 👤 Human. Added 09-10-2023.
  11. If you want to make progress, don't mind appearing foolish. In 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 09-10-2023.
  12. Know well your own faults: "they're stating the obvious". In 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 09-10-2023.
  13. Language has evolved to describe purposive action, making it hard to describe spontaneous, actionless, activity. In ☯️ Daoism, 👤 Human. Added 09-10-2023.
  14. No-one can always be their best self. In 👤 Human, ❤️ Love, 💪 Resilience. Added 09-10-2023.
  15. Notice how often you default to the (modern, convenient) comfort. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 09-10-2023.
  16. Opposites complete, test, determine, harmonise, give sequence to one another. In ☯️ Daoism, ↔️ Opposites. Added 09-10-2023.
  17. Recognise your shame triggers. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 09-10-2023.
  18. See the truth and act on it. In 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 09-10-2023.
  19. Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach. In 🙆 Acceptance, 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 09-10-2023.
  20. The Sage puts themself behind, to be on top without crushing, to guide without leading into harm. In ☯️ Daoism, ↔️ Opposites. Added 09-10-2023.
  21. The story includes the feeling tone includes the raw data of experience. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 09-10-2023.
  22. The whole truth is the reconciliation and holding together of opposites. In ↔️ Opposites, ⭕️ Tmwt. Added 09-10-2023.
  23. "To have seen it from one side only, is not to have seen it." In ↔️ Opposites, ⭕️ Tmwt. Added 09-10-2023.
  24. True contentment is when desires have been diminished, not when they have been fulfilled. In ☯️ Daoism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 09-10-2023.
  25. When we avoid a (negative) task, we avoid the (negative) emotions associated with it. In 👤 Human, 🐌 Slowness. Added 09-10-2023.
  26. Become viscerally intimate with the truth. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 11-10-2023.
  27. Don't let the content of awareness veil your true nature of happiness and peace. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual. Added 11-10-2023.
  28. The sense of self is inferred from things arising, on their own. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 11-10-2023.
  29. Things are often diminished by seeking to increase them, and increasing by seeking to diminish them. In ☯️ Daoism, ↔️ Opposites. Added 11-10-2023.
  30. If you don't accept both sides, you may end with the opposite of what you wanted. In ☯️ Daoism, ⭕️ Tmwt. Added 12-10-2023.
  31. Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 12-10-2023.
  32. The knower is the attribute and the known is the essence, and they are one. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 13-10-2023.
  33. The movement of existence is the movement of love for the sake of the revelation of beauty. In 📍 Experience. Added 13-10-2023.
  34. The new requires manifestation and the eternal requires remaining hidden. In 📍 Experience. Added 13-10-2023.
  35. There is no difference between the sender, that which is sent and the one to whom it is sent. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 13-10-2023.
  36. Union is only possible between two things. If there is only one there can be neither union nor separation. In 🌘 Nondual. Added 13-10-2023.
  37. Decisions seems like problems from a self-centred point of view. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 21-10-2023.
  38. Feelings of worthlessness are acquired over time, so they can be released or replaced. In 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 21-10-2023.
  39. Investigate the snake to see the reality of the rope. In 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 21-10-2023.
  40. It's not a quiet mind that matters but non-attachment to the activities of the mind. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism. Added 21-10-2023.
  41. Let action emerge from experience. In ☸️ Buddhism, ☯️ Daoism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 21-10-2023.
  42. No separation between you and the circumstances of your life. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual. Added 21-10-2023.
  43. Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🐌 Slowness. Added 21-10-2023.
  44. Practice is something we do for the rest of our lives. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 21-10-2023.
  45. Take in the good of feeling cared about. In 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 21-10-2023.
  46. The effort to be a different person increases the tension, the suffering. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self. Added 21-10-2023.
  47. Trying to escape our own suffering creates a separate self. In ☸️ Buddhism, 💪 Resilience. Added 21-10-2023.
  48. When you feel like a bad person, you're more likely to do bad things. In 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 21-10-2023.
  49. Actions are changes made by a self-conscious agent, a manifestation of purpose. So the Tao has no actions. In ☯️ Daoism. Added 22-10-2023.
  50. Your identity can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 24-10-2023.

Noting

Book notes

  1. Rest Is Resistance.
  2. Imagining Decolonisation.
  3. Know Yourself.
  4. Everyday Zen.

Reading

  1. Rest Is Resistance by Hersey, Tricia. Read 23-10-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson Rest Is Resistance.
  2. Ascension by Binge, Nicholas. Read 23-10-2023, rated 4/5.
  3. Imagining Decolonisation by Elkington, Biana. Read 21-10-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson Imagining Decolonisation.
  4. Chinese Fish by Yee, Grace. Read 16-10-2023, rated 5/5.
  5. Children of Memory by Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Read 13-10-2023, rated 4/5.
  6. Know Yourself by Twinch, Cecilia. Read 10-10-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson Know Yourself.
  7. Until the Last of Me by Neuvel, Sylvain. Read 08-10-2023, rated 3/5.
  8. Everyday Zen by Beck, Charlotte Joko. Read 08-10-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson Everyday Zen.

Arting

2023 10 Triangles

2023 10 Sketches

Gaming

  1. Disco Elysium on PS5. Rated 4/5.
  2. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PS5. Rated 5/5.
  3. The Wild at Heart on PS5. Rated 4/5.

Musicing

    Nothing this month.