Playing with Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

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

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

- Attributed to Lao-tzu.

 

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[UnbornTao]

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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You become what you meditate (put your attention, time, and effort) on. 

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What is it to be in relation to?

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Where are they coming from? What web of beliefs are they operating within?

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Why do you use excuses and justifications? 

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

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Discipline is freeing.

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How do discovery and invention differ?

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People tend to judge a communication mostly by the impressions it makes on them and by how these impressions make them feel.

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

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The social domain, which includes culture, is considered to be 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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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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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]

That something external to you can somehow produce a happy and joyful experience is a mistaken notion; it might certainly contribute one way or another, but it is not what sources the joy.

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