Playing with Perspectives

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What is intuition? 

Edited May 23 by UnbornTao

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Dropping the roles you play expands your sense of self and tends to empower your presence and vitality. For example, imagine you’re being hunted by a lion. In this life-or-death situation, you realize that your social concerns are irrelevant and not real--in the sense that they are not existential--freeing you from them, at least temporarily.

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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Recognizing that you as a person are not special can be liberating, even though it might be fiercely resisted at first. 

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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This seems to be a common tactic in spiritual or philosophical circles: being deliberately vague, abstract, or intellectual in order to fool yourself and others--even unconsciously--into thinking you actually know what you're talking about.

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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Dwelling on what something means to you obscures the possibility of realizing what it is for itself.

Edited May 23 by UnbornTao

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It is not the truth that hurts you, but rather your relationship to it - your unwillingness to acknowledge it fully.

Edited Tuesday at 09:14 AM by UnbornTao

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Have you ever seen how a cornered rat behaves? We generally despise having our fantasies destroyed; we want them to be validated and widely-adopted. 

Edited May 23 by UnbornTao

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Effectiveness demands aligning yourself with what is happening as it is occurring.

Edited May 23 by UnbornTao

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Ultimately, what's true isn't confined to any domain of human knowledge. What is is already the case; it is not limited to the mind, language, or experience, not even perception.

Edited May 24 by UnbornTao

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Making new, finer distinctions within your experience is what learning is about.

Edited May 23 by UnbornTao

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Real skill is experientially-based.

For example, being given instructions by a football coach is probably a positive first step, yet that, by itself, doesn't transform your skills. Intellectually understanding the assertions isn't enough. In such a case, you'd need to ground that understanding on your experience of the activity--into something you can actually put into practice. 

If you can't do what it is you think you already understand, you may be missing this point.

Now, try to apply this principle to the couple of skills you intend to master.

Edited 19 hours ago by UnbornTao

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How you perceive reality might be causing a vast amount of your suffering. How do you see life and your self? What beliefs are you attached to?

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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Emotions are one of our most powerful drives in life, yet we tend to think that we are above them in a way - that our intellects are somehow in control of them. 

Notice, for example, that most people tend to judge a communication mostly by the impressions it makes on them and by how these impressions make them feel. This is significant.

Edited Tuesday at 09:15 AM by UnbornTao

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A few signs of intelligence seem to be:

• Being inquisitive rather than assumptive
• The ability to consider and integrate various perspectives
• Humor

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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Thinking is generating a new thought you've never had before.

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Seeking value undermines the search for what's true.

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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The extent to which you recognize the truth and align yourself with it is the degree of your spiritual growth.

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao

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In order to become aware of your conditioning, create contrast by changing your environment. For example, when people travel to a culture entirely different from their own, it becomes much easier--if they’re paying attention--to notice how their culture operates, and by extension, how they themselves think and behave.

Edited May 30 by UnbornTao

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Answers and beliefs undermine questioning.

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If you're going to do something, intend to do it well - even masterfully, when it comes to your work. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Edited Monday at 03:07 PM by UnbornTao