Playing with Perspectives

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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

- Ramana Maharshi

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Made the recipe on the second video:

 

 

Edited July 28, 2024 by UnbornTao

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A look into the principle of willingness. Explanation by ChatGPT:

Me: What is willingness as a principle about?

GPT: Willingness, as a principle, refers to an individual's openness, readiness, and acceptance to engage in a particular activity, task, or change. This principle can be applied in various contexts, including personal development, psychological practices, relationships, and professional settings. Here are some key aspects of willingness as a principle:

1. Openness to Experience: Being receptive to new experiences, ideas, and perspectives without immediate judgment or resistance.
2. Readiness for Change: Showing a readiness to adapt or change behaviors, attitudes, and mindsets when necessary. This involves a proactive stance towards growth and improvement.
3. Acceptance: Accepting situations, emotions, and thoughts as they are, rather than fighting against them. This is often highlighted in mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies.
4. Commitment to Action: Demonstrating a commitment to take action towards goals or values, even when faced with challenges or discomfort. Willingness involves moving forward despite fears or uncertainties.
5. Flexibility: Being flexible in one’s approach and not rigidly clinging to preconceived notions or plans. This adaptability allows for better handling of unexpected changes and obstacles.
6. Engagement and Participation: Actively participating in life’s events and processes, rather than passively observing. This means being fully engaged in activities, relationships, and responsibilities.
7. Responsibility: Taking responsibility for one’s own actions and decisions, and understanding the impact they have on oneself and others.

In psychological contexts, particularly in therapies like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), willingness is crucial for accepting unpleasant thoughts and feelings and committing to behavior change that aligns with one’s values.

Overall, willingness as a principle emphasizes an active, open, and accepting approach to life’s experiences, promoting personal growth, resilience, and effective action.

Edited July 21, 2024 by UnbornTao

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Oh brother, you are nothing but your thoughts
The rest of you is merely skin and bones
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden
If your thought is a thorn, you are fuel for the fire

- Rumi

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What if space isn't objective? What if what we call space is generally conflated with our experience of distance?

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Consider that everything you experience, think, feel and do might be something that you want on some level, due to the fact that you are generating them in order to serve a certain purpose.

What is this dynamic about and how does it unfold? Who else would be responsible for your experience?

This is significant and should be deeply experienced, not just believed and concluded. At this point, it remains an interesting hypothesis.

Edited September 10, 2024 by UnbornTao

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Made this first one:

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2024 by UnbornTao

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Wo ist hier?

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Distinguish between intention, which co-arises with action and contains an element of want, and desire, which is a complementary conceptual activity of wishing for an imagined experience to occur in the future. The latter does not require action, while the former arises with it.

Edited September 23, 2024 by UnbornTao

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Made flan!

 

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Made this today. The sweetness of the onion was fantastic. Not the best look (understatement) for my first Spanish omelette, but it was quite tasty.

Edited August 14, 2024 by UnbornTao

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What is prior to interpretation?

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Notice your state when listening to the video below. 

I'd like you to contemplate that it might be manipulation, and why that is. Also, don't think of manipulation as a negative thing, or confuse it with the conventional social form of covert, deceptive manipulation; the word itself means managing or handling something skilfully.

 

For example, the calming effect it may produce on you, which might be its purpose; the video affects your current internal feeling-state.

Now contrast that with what plain communication really is and contemplate the difference between them.

Edited August 28, 2024 by UnbornTao

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