🙋 Self and ...
🙋 Self and ⭕️ Tmwt
- The self is causes, conditions, patterns.
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🙋 Self and 🙆 Acceptance
- Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.
- Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement.
- In awareness there is no resistance.
- The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer.
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🙋 Self and ☸️ Buddhism
- The witness is just a thought too.
- The self is just one of our many constructed models of reality.
- Not 'get rid of the self', but transcend and include it.
- To address your shortcomings, embody the opposite.
- Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for.
- Who are you, once you've let everything go?
- Recognise the matrix of (constructed) narratives you live in.
- Our true nature is deep, still, harmonious without the polarities of opinion and belief.
- By holding fast to our likes and dislikes, we continually recreate the sense of self.
- No part of a person is unchanging, permanent.
- Solitary confinement is (the sense of self is) a prison.
- The effort to be a different person increases the tension, the suffering.
- Decisions seems like problems from a self-centred point of view.
- Manifestation, performance, function, but no centre.
- An empty signifier with no fixed referent.
- The "I am" prior to all.
- Seek, without wanting to change to a (transitory) state.
- The sense of self is just another thought.
- The self is like a constellation. It exists only be convention.
- The self is just a concept, coming from identifying with what's arising.
- The effort to meditate creates the meditator, separateness, duality.
- Feel the profound relief of recognising no-self.
- Our reaction to ordinary, everyday, events show us our true colours.
- Your deeper identity is that relaxed, alive, stillness.
- The movement of thoughts in your mind creates a narrative, a self.
- What's real doesn't disappear when we look carefully.
- We can't expect the thinking mind to (break the illusion of the self) by not-thinking.
- "Selfing" has interacting existential, psychological, and social layers.
- Our conventional sense of self is an illusion.
- Only the absence of the thinker of thoughts can be found.
- The self is a stream of dependently arising processes interacting.
- See the balanced view of yourself: your patterns and human imperfections; your basic innate goodness.
- Integrate insights by being present and open to changes.
- Free will is an illusion. Can you decide to decide?
- Bringing attention to things gives us choice.
- We maintain our sense of self by editing of, selecting from, experience.
- You can't get there from here.
- The sky, not the clouds.
- The self is causes, conditions, patterns.
- The ocean, not the waves.
- Everyone's good qualities are partly luck and partly effort.
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🙋 Self and ☯️ Daoism
- The "I am" prior to all.
- Have little thought of self, and as few desires as possible.
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🙋 Self and 📍 Experience
- 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.
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🙋 Self and 👤 Human
- The self is like a net made to catch suffering.
- Your self is an individual expression of many collectives.
- Notice how the thought of other's people opinions creates a self.
- The feeling of self is a (diffuse) contraction. Just relax, allow it to soften.
- Our reaction to ordinary, everyday, events show us our true colours.
- All development is envelopment: transcend and include.
- Every person is the protagonist in their own story.
- The thinking mind works to save energy and avoid the discomfort of being wrong.
- See the balanced view of yourself: your patterns and human imperfections; your basic innate goodness.
- We all have four heads: universal (shared human things), individual (personality, character, talents), chance (where and when we're born), choice (to act, or not to act).
- Free will is an illusion. Can you decide to decide?
- Piggyblocking. Establish a new habit more easily by putting it between two existing habits.
- Everyone's good qualities are partly luck and partly effort.
- A person is different in different situations. A person changes over time.
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🙋 Self and 🧘 Mindfulness
- Instead of "don't think about pink elephants", try "only think about pink elephants forever!"
- Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for.
- Thoughts arise without your permission.
- Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.
- Notice what you map to your sense of self. For example: anxiety vs indigestion.
- Emotions and feelings like anger and anxiety are information, “salience signals”.
- Simply rest as that which is aware.
- Seen in the first instant, or not at all. Before concepts, not beyond them.
- It's right on the surface. Like a window as mirror instead of a window.
- The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling.
- The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer.
- The sky, not the clouds.
- The ocean, not the waves.
- The feeling of self is what it feels like to be thinking without realising you're thinking.
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🙋 Self and 🌘 Nondual
- The witness is just a thought too.
- The self is just one of our many constructed models of reality.
- Not 'get rid of the self', but transcend and include it.
- Who will be the knower once the self is know? The knower must be the self.
- We should say "it thinks" like we say "it rains".
- Understand yourself as a facet of the whole. Identify with all the other facets.
- The subject appears later and lays claim to the action.
- The mind creates the fiction of duality by superimposing interpretations on perceptions.
- The knower is consciousness delimited by the mind; the known is consciousness delimited by the objective form.
- The conceptual mind is surmounted by exhausting it, negating all conceptual possiblities.
- Something can't arise from nothing. Either there is still nothing or there was always something.
- Pushing againt yourself creates a division.
- Intentionality is the hinge between dual and nondual action.
- Each thought is nondual. We obscure this by linking thoughts in a chain.
- Craving is how we divide up the world through language.
- If you believe that you are in control of your thoughts, that you create them: trying stopping thinking!
- Our true nature is deep, still, harmonious without the polarities of opinion and belief.
- By holding fast to our likes and dislikes, we continually recreate the sense of self.
- Look for your head.
- The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness.
- Happiness can't be acquired, only revealed.
- Manifestation, performance, function, but no centre.
- An empty signifier with no fixed referent.
- The space in which reality reveals itself.
- The self is a public event and a private experience.
- The self is a modality of action, not the seat of our identity.
- The more true the identity is, the less defined, until it finally drops away.
- Sense the indefinite, flexible, indeterminate boundaries.
- Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement.
- "ego-reframe" more than "ego death": revealing the interconnected relationships of self and reality, rather than a process of erasure and reconstruction.
- "We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains."
- The witness and the object are two sides of the same experience.
- The sense of self is just another thought.
- Reality is not given to you twice.
- Look for the dividing line between contents and context.
- A mirror only gives not-mirror. But it also only gives it in the mirror!
- You are not anything you can think about yourself.
- No approaching, no becoming. Just let everything fall away.
- The "I am" before adding anything, before looking backwards or forwards.
- Not an injunction to do, but an invitation to rest.
- Distraction from discomfort is the separate self expressing itself.
- Big insights have to be available now, not just as impermanent, peak, states.
- Anything that can be named or located can't be you: it's an object in awareness.
- The effort to meditate creates the meditator, separateness, duality.
- When you notice someone looking your way: what are they looking at?
- Have no preference. Change the cognitive frame.
- Feel the profound relief of recognising no-self.
- Being seen creates the “I”, we become self-conscious.
- We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience.
- It's only when "I" arises that "You", "They", arise.
- The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling.
- If "I" am separate and free from my environment, how can I influence it and act on it?
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🙋 Self and ↔️ Opposites
- To address your shortcomings, embody the opposite.
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🙋 Self and 💪 Resilience
- The ocean, not the waves.
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🙋 Self and 🏛️ Stoicism
- We all have four heads: universal (shared human things), individual (personality, character, talents), chance (where and when we're born), choice (to act, or not to act).
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🙋 Self and ⏰ Waking-up
- Instead of "don't think about pink elephants", try "only think about pink elephants forever!"
- If you believe that you are in control of your thoughts, that you create them: trying stopping thinking!
- Look for the dividing line between contents and context.
- A mirror only gives not-mirror. But it also only gives it in the mirror!
- Look for yourself, at zero distance.
- The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling.
- The self is a stream of dependently arising processes interacting.
- If "I" am separate and free from my environment, how can I influence it and act on it?
- Free will is an illusion. Can you decide to decide?
- You can't get there from here.
- The self is causes, conditions, patterns.
- The feeling of self is what it feels like to be thinking without realising you're thinking.
- Look for what’s looking.
- Look for the edges.
- A person is different in different situations. A person changes over time.
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