🐌 Slowness and ...
- Acceptance (5)
- Buddhism (18)
- Daoism (10)
- Experience (5)
- Human (5)
- Love (1)
- Mindfulness (13)
- Nondual (1)
- Resilience (2)
- Stoicism (4)
- Waking-up (1)
Slowness and Acceptance
- Work patiently, steadily, calmly. Allow ample time.
- Wait in, instead of wait for.
- Let go. Don't push, don't pull. Make space.
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Wu wei. Avoid assertion, practice inaction.
Slowness and Acceptance and ...
Slowness and Buddhism
- Practice is something we do for the rest of our lives.
- Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you.
- Let action emerge from experience.
- Have patient determination: just commit to the next step on the path.
- Meditation is about resting. Not-doing, relaxing, refreshing, recharging.
- Nothing to gain, no results. Just the process.
- The problem is the reactivity, triggered by the underlying feeling tone, creating a compelling narrative.
- The freedom is in the not-(becoming).
- Not analysis, but unthinking absorption.
- Learn to sense the feeling tone (vedana) before you become entangled and start to spiral.
- The Middle Way. Both indulgence and deprivation are equally useless for liberation.
- Do everything with two hands.
- Find calm by suspending the why.
- Work patiently, steadily, calmly. Allow ample time.
- Let go. Don't push, don't pull. Make space.
- Withhold judgement.
- Respond rather than react. Intensity and reactivity breed more of the same.
- Movement masks dukkha.
Slowness and Daoism
- 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.
Slowness and Experience
- 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.
Slowness and Experience and ...
Slowness and Human
- Rest is not for being able to be more productive.
- When we avoid a (negative) task, we avoid the (negative) emotions associated with it.
- The Middle Way. Both indulgence and deprivation are equally useless for liberation.
- Constantly "scratching the itch" conditions the mind to keep looking for more stimulation.
- We need perspective: we exaggerate what's close to us.
Slowness and Love
- Respond rather than react. Intensity and reactivity breed more of the same.
Slowness and Mindfulness
- Desires only appear to contain imperatives.
- Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you.
- Meditation is about resting. Not-doing, relaxing, refreshing, recharging.
- The problem is the reactivity, triggered by the underlying feeling tone, creating a compelling narrative.
- Learn to sense the feeling tone (vedana) before you become entangled and start to spiral.
- Proceeding slowly means mistakes instruct.
- Excess invites disaster.
- To do things carefully, do them quietly.
- Constantly "scratching the itch" conditions the mind to keep looking for more stimulation.
- Leave space for things to untangle themselves.
- Slow your tempo.
- Movement masks dukkha.
- Make time to reflect. Reflection is where we cement learning.
Slowness and Mindfulness and ...
Slowness and Nondual
- "I don't know." Remind yourself of the fact, not try to make it know.
Slowness and Resilience
- Walk until the heat goes out of it.
- Leave space for things to untangle themselves.
Slowness and Resilience and ...
Slowness and Stoicism
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Treat the events of life like trays of snacks at a party.
- Respond rather than react. Intensity and reactivity breed more of the same.
- Make time to reflect. Reflection is where we cement learning.
Slowness and Waking-up
- Desires only appear to contain imperatives.