☯️ Daoism and ...
- Tmwt (10)
- Acceptance (4)
- Buddhism (8)
- Experience (9)
- Human (17)
- Love (1)
- Mindfulness (8)
- Motion (4)
- Nondual (16)
- Opposites (15)
- Resilience (4)
- Self (2)
- Slowness (10)
- Stoicism (2)
- Waking-up (1)
Daoism and Tmwt
- If you don't accept both sides, you may end with the opposite of what you wanted.
- Each part is in the whole, the whole is in each part.
- See the bigger picture, the wider view, all the complex factors involved.
- Simplicity in one area allows for detail in another.
- Distinction is not the same as division.
- Things can’t exist without their opposite.
- Opposites reveal, create, support, define each other.
- Opposites co-exist, making something new and taut and harmonious.
- All things are in process, rising and returning.
- Complementary forces, interacting to form a dynamic system.
Daoism and Acceptance
- Wu wei. Avoid assertion, practice inaction.
- Retain what comes in.
- Nothing's worse than attacking what yields.
- Work with, not work against.
Daoism and Buddhism
- Pay more attention to how much of your actions feel mysterious.
- Effortless action as in: no sense of self taking action
- Choosing obscures the way.
- Let action emerge from experience.
- The "I am" prior to all.
- Don't reduce a person to their temporary function.
- Withhold judgement.
- Reality is nondual.
Daoism and Experience
- Pay more attention to how much of your actions feel mysterious.
- Choosing obscures the way.
- The world doesn't happen to you, it happens through you.
- "The Tao is like muddy water" is a precise description of things as they are.
- Reality has a profound adaptability, flux, mutability.
- To be noticed / perceived, something has to be different. We filter our sameness.
- The harmony past knowing or saying (re)sounds more deeply.
- Have wise ignorance. Stop frantically conceptualising.
- More sensitive to pleasure means more sensitive to pain.
Daoism and Human
- Spontaneous action, like laughing at a joke.
- Three jewels of Daoism: humility, compassion, simplicity.
- Our life is a gift from everyone. None of us have earned our keep.
- New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
- Language has evolved to describe purposive action, making it hard to describe spontaneous, actionless, activity.
- To be noticed / perceived, something has to be different. We filter our sameness.
- Take problems seriously, but handle them calmly.
- Put effort into the fundamentals, not the frills.
- Take the lower position, the root, the base.
- Avoid excess, extravagance, arrogance.
- Polarities have rewards of focusing and risks of neglecting either pole.
- Pay attention to interior and exterior, individual and collective.
- Quietly, discreetly, serve the common good.
- (Re)connection, seeing interdependence, is more effective than strength or dominance.
- Bring out the best in yourself and others.
- More sensitive to pleasure means more sensitive to pain.
- A person can't be reduced to their usefulness.
Daoism and Love
- Bring out the best in yourself and others.
Daoism and Mindfulness
- Galling though it is at first, we need to stay in close contact with what we'd like to reject.
- Don't do anything except be open to the possibility of being more relaxed.
- Take the lower position, the root, the base.
- Be as careful at the end as at the beginning.
- Read and reread until you have an intuitive sense of what's behind the words.
- Have a mind like a mirror: chase nothing; welcome nothing; respond but don't store.
- Excess invites disaster.
- Slow your tempo.
Daoism and Mindfulness and ...
Daoism and Motion
- The rivers all flow to the sea because it's beneath them.
- All things change and flow, continuously becoming their opposite.
- All things are in process, rising and returning.
- Complementary forces, interacting to form a dynamic system.
Daoism and Nondual
- Effortless action as in: no sense of self taking action
- By focusing attention on a concept we create its opposite.
- "The Tao is like muddy water" is a precise description of things as they are.
- Life is the dancer, you are the dance. Notice that you can’t tell the dancer from the dance.
- Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose at hand.
- Polarities have rewards of focusing and risks of neglecting either pole.
- Pay attention to interior and exterior, individual and collective.
- Polarities create friction when they feel like opposites, contradictions.
- Notice, harmonise, and integrate patterns in polarities.
- Don't draw forced, unnatural, distinctions.
- All things change and flow, continuously becoming their opposite.
- Distinction is not the same as division.
- Why can’t it be both? Some things that look like a dichotomy, aren't.
- Where the pot's not is where it's useful.
- Reality is nondual.
- Expert consciousness is nondual. The (constructed) boundary between doer and doing vanishes.
Daoism and Opposites
- By focusing attention on a concept we create its opposite.
- Things are often diminished by seeking to increase them, and increasing by seeking to diminish them.
- The Sage puts themself behind, to be on top without crushing, to guide without leading into harm.
- Opposites complete, test, determine, harmonise, give sequence to one another.
- Polarities create friction when they feel like opposites, contradictions.
- Notice, harmonise, and integrate patterns in polarities.
- If right differed from not-right clearly, there'd be no need for argument.
- All things change and flow, continuously becoming their opposite.
- Form is employed to make things clever. Emptiness is employed to make things useful.
- Why can’t it be both? Some things that look like a dichotomy, aren't.
- Where the pot's not is where it's useful.
- Things can’t exist without their opposite.
- Opposites reveal, create, support, define each other.
- Opposites co-exist, making something new and taut and harmonious.
- Complementary forces, interacting to form a dynamic system.
Daoism and Resilience
- What is certain is future difficulty. Attempt to embrace it.
- Retain what comes in.
- Nothing's worse than attacking what yields.
- Navigating and use the tides and currents, the growth and decay, of life. Don't fight against them.
Daoism and Self
- The "I am" prior to all.
- Have little thought of self, and as few desires as possible.
Daoism and Slowness
- For the Sage, cravings happen in slow motion.
- Let action emerge from experience.
- True contentment is when desires have been diminished, not when they have been fulfilled.
- Conquer by quiescence, by getting underneath.
- Excess invites disaster.
- Have wise ignorance. Stop frantically conceptualising.
- Wu wei. Avoid assertion, practice inaction.
- Withhold judgement.
- Slow your tempo.
- Curb your ambition.
Daoism and Stoicism
- Recognise when you're on the Hedonic Treadmill.
- Navigating and use the tides and currents, the growth and decay, of life. Don't fight against them.
Daoism and Waking-up
- Respond in ways that open up choices.