Playing with Perspectives

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Edited Thursday at 07:15 AM by UnbornTao

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Consider: everything you think, feel, and do is something you want on some level. Since these are serving a purpose for you, you are generating them, whether consciously or not. Who else would be responsible for your experience? How does this dynamic unfold?

Note that responsibility here doesn't mean blame, or that you are responsible for everything that happens to you.

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Made this first one:

 

 

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Wo ist hier?

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Edited July 29, 2024 by UnbornTao

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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: the wishing for an imagined experience to occur in the future. The latter does not require action, while the former arises alongside it.

Edited Thursday at 08:21 PM by UnbornTao

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Made flan!

 

Edited January 26 by UnbornTao

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Made this today. The sweetness of the onion was fantastic. Not the best-looking—understatement—Spanish omelette, but it was surprisingly tasty for a first try.

Edited Thursday at 08:24 PM by UnbornTao

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What is prior to interpretation?

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Notice your state when listening to the video below. 

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:42 PM by UnbornTao

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Limitation...

• makes possibility real.
• actualizes possibility.
• allows for the realization of possibility.

Edited Thursday at 08:25 PM by UnbornTao

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Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

– Dōgen

Why would he say that?

Edited Wednesday at 12:32 AM by UnbornTao

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Your approach to happiness is backwards. You treat it as a byproduct of external conditions--of achieving desired outcomes and being affected by circumstances. In this model, happiness is contingent on what happens.

But consider:

• When you’ve felt happy, where did that happiness actually come from?
• What, in your direct experience, makes you happy?

Two angles from which to approach this contemplation:

1. A pragmatic one, dealing with what is conventionally considered happiness.
2. An existential one, seeking to uncover the source of happiness itself.

Pursuing happiness implies unhappiness. The very search presupposes its absence--and that, somehow, one day it will arrive. That’s an ideal.

Stop chasing happiness. Instead, learn to be happy regardless of circumstances. Genuinely embrace the experience you’re having--not just intellectually, but fully. Look into the nature of happiness itself, not as the result of a successful self-survival strategy, but as something deeper.

If the apparent causes of your unhappiness are resolved, and yet unhappiness remains, that can be a sobering realization. It reveals a hidden assumption: that happiness was to be found in, or produced by, external factors.

But upon closer inspection, you may see that true happiness has never been circumstantial. It has always been a matter of being fundamentally okay with your experience, exactly as it is.

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If you want to be happy, be.

— Leo Tolstoy

 

Edited 7 hours ago by UnbornTao

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If an expression sounds familiar in the context of consciousness work, watch out! Consider that there might be something deeper to understand about the experience or consciousness than what your intellect makes of it--especially if it comes from an authentic source.

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Nowadays, people are shallow and their resolution is not in earnest. They dislike the strenuous and love the easy from the time they are young. When they see something vaguely clever, they want to learn it right away; but if taught in the manner of the old ways, they think it not worth learning

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The demon said, 'The Way cannot be seen or heard. What can be seen or heard are just the traces of the Way. But you will be enlightened about what has no traces by the traces themselves'

–– Issai Chozanshi

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