Playing with Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

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

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Could you be using skepticism as a defense mechanism? What is good-quality skepticism?

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Don't confuse having talked extensively about a subject with understanding it. These are two different domains. 

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Contemplation and enlightenment work isn't about your ego--it might even go against your self-agenda. Given that, avoid falling into the trap of self-importance.

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Practice differentiating between perception, thought, and feeling within your experience.

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Quote

If you don't change course, you might end up where you're headed.

- Attributed to Lao-tzu.

 

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Encountering a person rather than your notions about them fosters a more present and alive relationship. In contrast, interacting with your concepts of them buries the conscious being before you beneath layers of opinion, preference, past associations, and the like.

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What is it to be in relation to?

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How you speak, and the language you employ, reveals the way you think and experience things. 

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How do discovery and invention differ?

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Where is pain to be found? Try to locate it.

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[UnbornTao]

The social domain, which includes culture, is lived as an objective reality, something existing out there independent of us, as if it were a hidden "person" or realm operating on its own.

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What are humor and comedy? 

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Quote

If you don't write of things

Deep in your own heart,

What's the use

Of churning out so many words?

— Ryokan.

 

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[UnbornTao]

Why is it easier to destroy than to create? What forms of destruction do you often engage in? What would you like to create?

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[UnbornTao]

What are the components of powerful communication?

• Being present, as if "behind" the communication itself.
• Being at the source of your experience - and grounded in it.

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[UnbornTao]

True creativity is inventing something that didn't existed before. What often passes as creativity in our culture consists of putting things together--and adding some of your "personality" to the mix. 

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao