📍 Experience and ...
- Tmwt (7)
- Acceptance (14)
- Brave (1)
- Buddhism (56)
- Daoism (9)
- Human (27)
- Mindfulness (29)
- Motion (4)
- Nondual (33)
- Opposites (2)
- Resilience (2)
- Self (23)
- Slowness (5)
- Waking-up (19)
Experience and Tmwt
- Reality is processes and fields that collapse into things.
- Negative Capability: remain in doubt and uncertainty.
- Intuition can take in more, and more subtle, inputs.
- Deep truths can't be spoken or written, only experienced.
- Experience is an encounter. Music is not just the sounds, a poem is not just the words.
- We construct our reality. Perception is active participation.
- The map is not the territory.
Experience and Acceptance
- Favour epistemological humility over certainty. Find profound freedom in not knowing and not needing to know.
- Your search for happiness is what makes you feel miserable.
- Meditation merely needs to be allowed, not created.
- Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not.
- In awareness there is no resistance.
- Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this.
- Rest in the wider space of awareness.
- Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity.
- Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
- Open up.
- The greater the resistance to (inevitable) changes, the greater the pain.
- Give everything a warm welcome.
- Everything is allowed, even resistance.
- Accept whatever arises.
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Experience and Brave
- Open up.
Experience and Buddhism
- Being is always bright, whatever the contents of consciousness.
- The six senses are burning with craving.
- Pay more attention to how much of your actions feel mysterious.
- Absolute intimacy with the 10,000 things.
- See what's happening in this moment as exactly right.
- Recognise the matrix of (constructed) narratives you live in.
- Empty as in absence, the possibility of appearance.
- Simply to be alive presents us with tension and mystery.
- Zen uses contradiction and paradox to loosen our grip on concepts.
- Zen demonstrates reality rather than talking about it.
- The separation of subject and object is only conceptual.
- Soak in the silence and vastness of existence.
- Live with full attention and clear awarness.
- Labels divide and isolate.
- Just rest. Don't meddle with thinking.
- Clarity is accepting what's clear and what's not clear.
- Choosing obscures the way.
- Notice the freshness of unfolding reality.
- Naked awareness: thoughts and the mind are like clothes and the body.
- Attend to the dynamic nature of emergent life.
- Don't adopt the stupidity of not investigating.
- "Not knowing is most intimate.
- Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not.
- Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation.
- Seek, without wanting to change to a (transitory) state.
- Nothing to gain, no results. Just the process.
- We (subsconsciously, contextually) edit out the qualities that don't match what we want to see, good or bad.
- The knowing and the object arise as a pair, distinct but not separate.
- Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest.
- Become less attached to your pains and pleasures.
- Find peace, humility in our smallness, our luck to be alive.
- Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this.
- No things are truly independently existing.
- Beyond thought and self, not thinking-about-not-self.
- Our conventional sense of self is an illusion.
- Only the absence of the thinker of thoughts can be found.
- Seeing clearly is difficult because of the (imaginary) obstacles we put up.
- Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity.
- Experiental reality is much deeper, richer, than what can be named.
- Experience is renewing itself in every moment.
- We maintain our sense of self by editing of, selecting from, experience.
- The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience.
- Human decisions are cause and effect, like all natural phenomena.
- Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience.
- This moment, as it is, is good enough.
- Look for the center of experience. It's not there.
- Leave everything as it is, in its place.
- In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.
- In seeing, only the seen. There's no you.
- The greater the resistance to (inevitable) changes, the greater the pain.
- Give everything a warm welcome.
- Everything is allowed, even resistance.
- Everything arises and passes away, all on its own.
- Consciousness is the prior condition of everything you experience.
- Concepts put imaginary fences around things.
- Accept whatever arises.
Experience and Buddhism and ...
Experience and Daoism
- 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.
Experience and Human
- Simply to be alive presents us with tension and mystery.
- Live with full attention and clear awarness.
- Liveliness can only be felt, not measured by statistics.
- Intellectual maps and verbal interpretations are necessarily inaccurate and incomplete.
- Collaborate with the shape of the world.
- Look more closely and resist the urge to summarise.
- We tend to think problems, complications, are anomalies.
- Your search for happiness is what makes you feel miserable.
- To be noticed / perceived, something has to be different. We filter our sameness.
- Notice how the thought of other's people opinions creates a self.
- We (subsconsciously, contextually) edit out the qualities that don't match what we want to see, good or bad.
- Become less attached to your pains and pleasures.
- The feeling of self is a (diffuse) contraction. Just relax, allow it to soften.
- When we're absorbed, time and embodiment are backgrounded.
- Being outdoors, in nature, wakes up our physical senses.
- 4E cognition. Cognition can can be embodied, embedded, enacted, extended.
- We don't experience the world directly.
- The brain's simulation of the world needs a phenomenal self. But it's only a model.
- The thinking mind interprets, not experiences.
- The world has many problems. But we don't need to be miserable while we work on them.
- Negative Capability: remain in doubt and uncertainty.
- Today, algophobia rules. Pain is cast as personal, private, a failure, an attack.
- Pain initiates and carries narrative.
- Almost every experience in life can be categorised as a good time or a good story.
- We need silence and stillness to let things sink in, below the conceptual realm.
- Thinking, fast and slow. The brain puts things into a fast / unconscious category or a slow / conscious category.
- More sensitive to pleasure means more sensitive to pain.
Experience and Mindfulness
- Transcend difficulties through deep surrender.
- Transcend difficulties through deep surrender.
- We habitually resist unpleasant experiences, which sustains and prolongs them.
- This current feeling is not solid or permanent.
- Thoughts arise without your permission.
- The mind interprets every experience almost instantly.
- Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation.
- Watch for the change from river (flow of impermanence) to eddy (contraction, resistance).
- Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest.
- Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence.
- Being outdoors, in nature, wakes up our physical senses.
- Gently let go of the idea, the feeling, of there being a meditator.
- Simply rest as that which is aware.
- Relax into stillness. Light and easy, not rigid.
- Find just enough space to notice what's going on.
- And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence.
- Be interested in what's happening, not caught up in it and identified with it.
- Be, accept, the whole of your experience, not just some of it.
- How far away from the object are your thoughts about the object?
- What's there when there's no problem to solve?
- Drop all your frames of reference.
- Choices open up when you notice your thoughts.
- Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
- The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience.
- Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience.
- This moment, as it is, is good enough.
- Our true nature is always and already present.
- Leave everything as it is, in its place.
- Everything is allowed, even resistance.
Experience and Mindfulness and ...
Experience and Motion
- Notice the freshness of unfolding reality.
- Attend to the dynamic nature of emergent life.
- Experience is renewing itself in every moment.
- Everything arises and passes away, all on its own.
Experience and Nondual
- Try not naming things.
- Favour epistemological humility over certainty. Find profound freedom in not knowing and not needing to know.
- Being is always bright, whatever the contents of consciousness.
- Empty as in absence, the possibility of appearance.
- Zen uses contradiction and paradox to loosen our grip on concepts.
- The separation of subject and object is only conceptual.
- Labels divide and isolate.
- "The Tao is like muddy water" is a precise description of things as they are.
- Look more closely and resist the urge to summarise.
- Look for your head.
- The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness.
- The witness and the object are two sides of the same experience.
- Reality is not given to you twice.
- The knowing and the object arise as a pair, distinct but not separate.
- The experience of choice: we hear the question; we choose; we think "I chose".
- Choice is just an interpretation of an experience.
- When we're absorbed, time and embodiment are backgrounded.
- The first instant is before before classification, measuring, labelling.
- Sense fields: What shape is it? What size it? Where are the edges?
- No approaching, no becoming. Just let everything fall away.
- Any given duality or division is conceptual only.
- The "I am" before adding anything, before looking backwards or forwards.
- Challenge your assumptions using your direct experience.
- Anything that can be named or located can't be you: it's an object in awareness.
- Nondual practice is nondoing, relaxing.
- Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence.
- Notice and orient towards the underlying unity and wholeness.
- Experiencing before understanding, defining, or remembering.
- Recognize, once again, that life is bigger than we are.
- We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience.
- And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence.
- No things are truly independently existing.
- We construct our reality. Perception is active participation.
Experience and Nondual and ...
Experience and Opposites
- We habitually resist unpleasant experiences, which sustains and prolongs them.
- Any given duality or division is conceptual only.
Experience and Opposites and ...
Experience and Resilience
- Almost every experience in life can be categorised as a good time or a good story.
- Give everything a warm welcome.
Experience and Resilience and ...
Experience and Self
- Recognise the matrix of (constructed) narratives you live in.
- Thoughts arise without your permission.
- Look for your head.
- The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness.
- Use the body as a visual path to your headless nature.
- Seek, without wanting to change to a (transitory) state.
- Notice how the thought of other's people opinions creates a self.
- The witness and the object are two sides of the same experience.
- Reality is not given to you twice.
- The feeling of self is a (diffuse) contraction. Just relax, allow it to soften.
- No approaching, no becoming. Just let everything fall away.
- The "I am" before adding anything, before looking backwards or forwards.
- Anything that can be named or located can't be you: it's an object in awareness.
- The separate self arises in resisting and seeking.
- In awareness there is no resistance.
- We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience.
- Simply rest as that which is aware.
- Our conventional sense of self is an illusion.
- Only the absence of the thinker of thoughts can be found.
- We maintain our sense of self by editing of, selecting from, experience.
- Remove your self.
- Look for what’s looking.
- Look for the edges.
Experience and Slowness
- Nothing to gain, no results. Just the process.
- Wait for a better question to arise from loose and open attention.
- Ask questions to sustain wonder and curiosity, not to uncover facts or answers.
- Following the breath will always bring you back to the stillness within.
- Have wise ignorance. Stop frantically conceptualising.
Experience and Slowness and ...
Experience and Waking-up
- Doing collapses all possible futures into a single concrete present.
- Drop all your frames of reference.
- Look for the center of experience.
- Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
- Experience is renewing itself in every moment.
- Consciousness is "What it is like to be something".
- Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience.
- This moment, as it is, is good enough.
- The contents of consciousness are a modification of consciousness.
- Look for what’s looking.
- Look for the edges.
- Look for the center of experience. It's not there.
- Leave everything as it is, in its place.
- In terms of experience, there is only consciousness and its contents.
- In seeing, only the seen. There's no you.
- Everything arises and passes away, all on its own.
- Consciousness is the prior condition of everything you experience.
- Concepts put imaginary fences around things.
- Accept whatever arises.