Playing with Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/study-sheds-light-on-why-some-people-keep-self-sabotaging/

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When you have cultivated mindfulness, life becomes richer, more vivid, more satisfying, and you don't take everything that happens so personally. Attention plays a more appropriate roles within the greater context of a broad and powerful awareness. You're fully present, happier, and at ease, because you're not so easily caught up in the stories and melodramas the mind likes to concoct. Your powers of attention are used more appropriately and effectively to examine the world. You become more objective and clear-headed, and develop an enhanced awareness of the whole

- Culadasa, The Mind Illuminated

 

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[integration journey]

1 hour ago, UnbornTao said:

 

Beautiful ❤️

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[UnbornTao]

1 hour ago, UnbornTao said:

 

18 minutes ago, integration journey said:

Beautiful ❤️

It's my most intimate piece.

Where did you take it from?

update: @integration journey Oh I see, the Quote function isn't working for that post. You can ignore my sarcasm.  

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I hope that you will listen, but not with the memory of what you already know; and this is very difficult to do. You listen to something, and your mind immediately reacts with its knowledge, its conclusions, its opinions, its past memories. It listens, inquiring for a future understanding. Just observe yourself, how you are listening, and you will see that this is what is taking place. Either you are listening with a conclusion, with knowledge, with certain memories, experiences, or you want an answer, and you are impatient. You want to know what it is all about, what life is all about, the extraordinary complexity of life. You are not actually listening at all. You can only listen when the mind is quiet, when the mind doesn't react immediately, when there is an interval between your reaction and what is being said. Then in that interval there is a quietness, there is a silence in which alone there is a comprehension, which is not intellectual understanding. If there is a gap between what is said and your own reaction to what is said, in that interval, whether you prolong it indefinitely, for a long period or for a few seconds in that interval, if you observe, there comes clarity. It is the interval that is the new brain. The immediate reaction is the old brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, reactionary, animalistic sense. When there is an abeyance of that, when the reaction is suspended, when there is an interval, then you will find that the new brain acts, and it is only the new brain that can understand, not the old brain.

— J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

 

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Do you, in actuality, make a distinction between thinking or hearing about something, and experiencing its reality?

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Watched The Big Lebowski and didn't understand a thing. It was a fun movie, though. 

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Loved Superman.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- Hamlet

 

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… one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

- Albert Einstein

 

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[UnbornTao]

[Schizophonia]

5 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

What is it

[UnbornTao]

Just now, Schizophonia said:

What is it

A bubble bursting.

[Schizophonia]

1 minute ago, UnbornTao said:

A bubble bursting.

Ok

[UnbornTao]

You might find this read inspiring:

https://archive.org/details/PerfectBrilliantStillnessDavidCarseEbookPDF/mode/2up

Apparently, Terence Stamp narrated the audiobook version.

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You don't know shit about integrity

- Werner Erhard (presumably)

 

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Everybody understands the single drop merging into the ocean. One in a million understands the ocean merging into a single drop

- Kabir

 

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