"You don’t renounce the world, you gain the world."
- from After Ecstasy, The Laundry by Jack Kornfield

#meditation #Buddhism

While we're in many ways a summation of moments in the past, the power to choose how to view, relate, and act in the present is profound.

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Curiosity implies a movement towards truth.

Malleability of perspective goes one step further, to encourage questioning of that truth.

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"Lending an ear to the Dreamer within us is communicating with ourselves, in spite of the powerful barriers that aim, at whatever cost, to forbid us from doing so."
- Alexander Grothendieck

Not an intro I would have expected from @davidbessis.bsky.social's book Mathematica!

@metzinger.bsky.social's concepts in his book such as epistemic openness and space are illuminating. Now revisiting Daniel P. Brown's book on mahamudra in a new light.

#meditation #insight

The breath is also a dependent arising.

#meditationnotes

As a person with anxiety issues, my relationship with the breath is often unpleasant when not formally practicing. The thought above was a great reminder to let go of control of the breath which tends to alleviate the heaviness.

Currently reading the Elephant and the Blind by @metzinger.bsky.social. An attempt to map out the subjective experience of minimal consciousness from a survey of over 800 advanced practitioners.

Curious how different perspectives affect perception from the ways of seeing approach of Rob Burbea.