Experience

Try not naming things. Also in: Experience, Nondual.
Favour epistemological humility over certainty. Find profound freedom in not knowing and not needing to know. Also in: Nondual, Acceptance, Experience.
Being is always bright, whatever the contents of consciousness. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Experience.
The six senses are burning with craving. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Pay more attention to how much of your actions feel mysterious. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism, Experience.
Transcend difficulties through deep surrender. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Transcend difficulties through deep surrender. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Absolute intimacy with the 10,000 things. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
See what's happening in this moment as exactly right. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Recognise the matrix of (constructed) narratives you live in. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Self.
Empty as in absence, the possibility of appearance. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Nondual.
We habitually resist unpleasant experiences, which sustains and prolongs them. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience, Opposites.
This current feeling is not solid or permanent. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Simply to be alive presents us with tension and mystery. Also in: Experience, Human, Buddhism.
Zen uses contradiction and paradox to loosen our grip on concepts. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Experience.
Zen demonstrates reality rather than talking about it. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
The separation of subject and object is only conceptual. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism, Experience.
Soak in the silence and vastness of existence. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Live with full attention and clear awarness. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Human.
Labels divide and isolate. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Nondual.
Just rest. Don't meddle with thinking. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Clarity is accepting what's clear and what's not clear. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Choosing obscures the way. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism, Experience.
Liveliness can only be felt, not measured by statistics. Also in: Human, Experience.
Intellectual maps and verbal interpretations are necessarily inaccurate and incomplete. Also in: Experience, Human.
The world doesn't happen to you, it happens through you. Also in: Daoism, Experience.
Like holding water in your hands: gently, lightly. Also in: Experience.
Collaborate with the shape of the world. Also in: Human, Experience.
Notice the freshness of unfolding reality. Also in: Buddhism, Motion, Experience.
Naked awareness: thoughts and the mind are like clothes and the body. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Attend to the dynamic nature of emergent life. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Motion.
"The Tao is like muddy water" is a precise description of things as they are. Also in: Daoism, Experience, Nondual.
Reality has a profound adaptability, flux, mutability. Also in: Experience, Daoism.
Reality exists in essentially infinite resolution. Also in: Experience.
Look more closely and resist the urge to summarise. Also in: Human, Experience, Nondual.
Don't adopt the stupidity of not investigating. Also in: Experience, Buddhism.
We tend to think problems, complications, are anomalies. Also in: Human, Experience.
Thoughts arise without your permission. Also in: Self, Experience, Mindfulness.
The mind interprets every experience almost instantly. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
The new requires manifestation and the eternal requires remaining hidden. Also in: Experience.
The movement of existence is the movement of love for the sake of the revelation of beauty. Also in: Experience.
Look for your head. Also in: Self, Experience, Nondual.
"Not knowing is most intimate. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness. Also in: Nondual, Self, Experience.
Use the body as a visual path to your headless nature. Also in: Self, Experience.
Your search for happiness is what makes you feel miserable. Also in: Human, Acceptance, Experience.
Meditation merely needs to be allowed, not created. Also in: Experience, Acceptance.
Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Experience.
Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Experience.
To be noticed / perceived, something has to be different. We filter our sameness. Also in: Human, Daoism, Experience.
Seek, without wanting to change to a (transitory) state. Also in: Experience, Self, Buddhism.
Notice how the thought of other's people opinions creates a self. Also in: Self, Experience, Human.
The witness and the object are two sides of the same experience. Also in: Self, Experience, Nondual.
Reality is not given to you twice. Also in: Nondual, Self, Experience.
Nothing to gain, no results. Just the process. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Slowness.
We (subsconsciously, contextually) edit out the qualities that don't match what we want to see, good or bad. Also in: Human, Buddhism, Experience.
Wait for a better question to arise from loose and open attention. Also in: Slowness, Experience.
Watch for the change from river (flow of impermanence) to eddy (contraction, resistance). Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
The knowing and the object arise as a pair, distinct but not separate. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Experience.
The experience of choice: we hear the question; we choose; we think "I chose". Also in: Experience, Nondual.
Four Ps of knowing: propositional, procedural, perspectival, participatory. Also in: Experience.
Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Experience.
Choice is just an interpretation of an experience. Also in: Nondual, Experience.
Become less attached to your pains and pleasures. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Experience.
Ask questions to sustain wonder and curiosity, not to uncover facts or answers. Also in: Experience, Slowness.
The feeling of self is a (diffuse) contraction. Just relax, allow it to soften. Also in: Self, Experience, Human.
Following the breath will always bring you back to the stillness within. Also in: Experience, Slowness.
When we're absorbed, time and embodiment are backgrounded. Also in: Human, Experience, Nondual.
Reality is processes and fields that collapse into things. Also in: Experience, Tmwt.
Doing collapses all possible futures into a single concrete present. Also in: Experience, Waking-up.
The first instant is before before classification, measuring, labelling. Also in: Nondual, Experience.
Sense fields: What shape is it? What size it? Where are the edges? Also in: Nondual, Experience.
No approaching, no becoming. Just let everything fall away. Also in: Self, Experience, Nondual.
Any given duality or division is conceptual only. Also in: Nondual, Experience, Opposites.
The past, the future, the present moment are projections of the mind. Also in: Experience.
The "I am" before adding anything, before looking backwards or forwards. Also in: Self, Nondual, Experience.
Challenge your assumptions using your direct experience. Also in: Experience, Nondual.
Anything that can be named or located can't be you: it's an object in awareness. Also in: Self, Nondual, Experience.
Nondual practice is nondoing, relaxing. Also in: Nondual, Experience.
Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence. Also in: Mindfulness, Nondual, Experience.
Being outdoors, in nature, wakes up our physical senses. Also in: Mindfulness, Human, Experience.
The separate self arises in resisting and seeking. Also in: Self, Experience.
In awareness there is no resistance. Also in: Self, Experience, Acceptance.
Notice and orient towards the underlying unity and wholeness. Also in: Experience, Nondual.
Gently let go of the idea, the feeling, of there being a meditator. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Experiencing before understanding, defining, or remembering. Also in: Experience, Nondual.
Recognize, once again, that life is bigger than we are. Also in: Experience, Nondual.
Find peace, humility in our smallness, our luck to be alive. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this. Also in: Experience, Acceptance, Buddhism.
We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience. Also in: Experience, Self, Nondual.
Simply rest as that which is aware. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Self.
Rest in the wider space of awareness. Also in: Experience, Acceptance.
Relax into stillness. Light and easy, not rigid. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Find just enough space to notice what's going on. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence. Also in: Experience, Nondual, Mindfulness.
Be interested in what's happening, not caught up in it and identified with it. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Be, accept, the whole of your experience, not just some of it. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
4E cognition. Cognition can can be embodied, embedded, enacted, extended. Also in: Human, Experience.
We don't experience the world directly. Also in: Experience, Human.
The brain's simulation of the world needs a phenomenal self. But it's only a model. Also in: Experience, Human.
No things are truly independently existing. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Nondual.
The thinking mind interprets, not experiences. Also in: Experience, Human.
Cognitive science knows that thoughts are transformed interpretations, not a perfect rendition of reality. Also in: Experience.
Beyond thought and self, not thinking-about-not-self. Also in: Experience, Buddhism.
The world has many problems. But we don't need to be miserable while we work on them. Also in: Human, Experience.
Our conventional sense of self is an illusion. Also in: Self, Experience, Buddhism.
Only the absence of the thinker of thoughts can be found. Also in: Self, Experience, Buddhism.
Experience more clearly. Not think about experience more clearly. Also in: Experience.
Negative Capability: remain in doubt and uncertainty. Also in: Tmwt, Experience, Human.
Intuition can take in more, and more subtle, inputs. Also in: Tmwt, Experience.
Seeing clearly is difficult because of the (imaginary) obstacles we put up. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Today, algophobia rules. Pain is cast as personal, private, a failure, an attack. Also in: Human, Experience.
Pain initiates and carries narrative. Also in: Human, Experience.
The harmony past knowing or saying (re)sounds more deeply. Also in: Daoism, Experience.
How far away from the object are your thoughts about the object? Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
What's there when there's no problem to solve? Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Almost every experience in life can be categorised as a good time or a good story. Also in: Human, Experience, Resilience.
Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Experience.
Experiental reality is much deeper, richer, than what can be named. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Have wise ignorance. Stop frantically conceptualising. Also in: Daoism, Experience, Slowness.
Drop all your frames of reference. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
Look for the center of experience. Also in: Experience, Waking-up.
Choices open up when you notice your thoughts. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Acceptance, Waking-up.
We need silence and stillness to let things sink in, below the conceptual realm. Also in: Experience, Human.
Deep truths can't be spoken or written, only experienced. Also in: Experience, Tmwt.
Experience is renewing itself in every moment. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Motion, Waking-up.
Consciousness is "What it is like to be something". Also in: Experience, Waking-up.
We maintain our sense of self by editing of, selecting from, experience. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Experience.
The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Mindfulness.
Human decisions are cause and effect, like all natural phenomena. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
Experience is an encounter. Music is not just the sounds, a poem is not just the words. Also in: Tmwt, Experience.
We construct our reality. Perception is active participation. Also in: Tmwt, Nondual, Experience.
This moment, as it is, is good enough. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Thinking, fast and slow. The brain puts things into a fast / unconscious category or a slow / conscious category. Also in: Human, Experience.
The map is not the territory. Also in: Tmwt, Experience.
The contents of consciousness are a modification of consciousness. Also in: Experience, Waking-up.
Remove your self. Also in: Experience, Self.
Our true nature is always and already present. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Open up. Also in: Brave, Experience, Acceptance.
More sensitive to pleasure means more sensitive to pain. Also in: Human, Daoism, Experience.
Look for what’s looking. Also in: Experience, Self, Waking-up.
Look for the edges. Also in: Experience, Self, Waking-up.
Look for the center of experience. It's not there. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Leave everything as it is, in its place. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
In terms of experience, there is only consciousness and its contents. Also in: Experience, Waking-up.
In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. Also in: Experience, Buddhism.
In seeing, only the seen. There's no you. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
The greater the resistance to (inevitable) changes, the greater the pain. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Experience.
Give everything a warm welcome. Also in: Acceptance, Experience, Buddhism, Resilience.
Everything is allowed, even resistance. Also in: Acceptance, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Experience.
Everything arises and passes away, all on its own. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Motion, Waking-up.
Consciousness is the prior condition of everything you experience. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Concepts put imaginary fences around things. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Waking-up.
Concepts create reality, not describe it. Also in: Experience.
Accept whatever arises. Also in: Acceptance, Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.

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