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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone is at their lowest, like in an ICU bed or on death row, what does spiritual care look like when it actually helps?”
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The Pathology of Ungrounded Development
One of the ways psychological development can become pathological is if the current primary level from which a person operates isn’t grounded in skillful integration of the previous level.... - Philip...
Are We Ever Awake/Free/Thriving Enough To Not Practice?
Through the years, I’ve had periods in my life where I feel so overwhelmingly good that all my daily spiritual practices (yoga, meditation, prayer, Big Mind process, relatefulness, spiritual study, etc) fall to the wayside.... - laymanpascal...
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The article here on Relatefulness vs Circling, and numerous instances of listening to people try to nuance intriguing distinctions between various tweaks of intersubjective practice, turns my mind back to the shamanic.... - nat...
ooh, I love the idea of states like vitamins! Yeah, I’d love to learn too. There’s a guided meditation on YouTube to bring you into the first Jhana. I listened to it last night. It put me into a deep meditation but nothing blissful.... - nat...
A Jhana rabbit hole
Someone on X/Twitter introduced me to a meditation retreat company called Jhourneys that focuses on helping people get into Jhana states. Apparently there are different stages of Jhana.... Ordinary Love
An invitation to true wellness culture Postmodernity is too egocentric. This includes current “spiritual” trends. Here’s what an alternative can look like: Yesterday Dara asked Jason to install a window A/C unit in Val’s room; he came over and did it.... an inevitable future of unconditional love
"The world is sacred. It can't be improved." says verse 29 of the Tao te Ching. I know the experience this statement comes from. I believe everyone knows it.... Because "projection makes perception" and its all a dream, being ethical is an act of self-love
When thinking about everything being a dream, it's hard to see where ethics fits. If you know it's a Star Wars video game, why not play-to-win as the dark side? <-- You are separate from the video game, so this question makes sense.... I had a similar journey with Christianity. Some of you know I was in a cult from 23-26 and fell out because…it was a cult. I think it was a bit better than an average cult though because as we were starting they made sure to tell everyone, "Don’t trust us, trust your experience."... - onWhat are some of your uncertainties? Experiences of failure (that maybe you still haven't turned into learnings yet?) Obvious realizations?bynithya...
The way I see it the confusion is because of the word suffering. Which is an inadequate translation of the original “dukkha”. Maybe a better way of saying it is that Buddhists aim to end all resistance to WHAT IS.... Right, I think I see better what you're gesturing towards and I've seen you beautifully do the pointing out instruction with people towards this. It reminds me of a Junpo Roshi Q&A with the dalai lama.... Who I Follow On the Internet and Why
My internet interest fall into three categories: Politics, NFL Football, Connection/Spirituality/Consciousness. I imagine lots of people follow to first two in combo and the combo of three might be a little unusual.... - nat...
oh cool. I hadn’t heard of that. I don’t know if there are enough people open to a consensus truth to cause change. But I’m also reminded of something Abraham-Hicks said years ago about how it takes far less awake people to create a shift than it would take non-awake people.... Read the full post - josefine...
"I believe life is trustable and I wonder if I’ll be alive to see the good that will come from this huge swing.". This sentence moved me a lot and has been working in me since I read it last week.... Hmm, this translation IMHO misses a key point of the last line which is, the only thing you can stand on is karma aka your intentions and actions. As my teacher put it, "what you do matters".... - Thea...
The declaration that “none of this is real”, or that “reality is an illusion” is trivial and does a disservice to the pursuit of truth and love.
The power of recognising that “everything is an illusion/nothing is real” lies wholly in using this as a portal to deeper wisdom and knowledge. The danger of recognising that “everything is an illusion/nothing is real” is in mistaking this as a conclusion that implies that... Welcome and glad to have you here Nithya! Thank you for this. I haven’t heard of Atisha before this. Suddenly inspired to give my version in poetic tao te ching form, as a way to meditate on what’s been transmitted/expressed here… Unlearning "separation" Comes from relentless... 🕊️“Awakening” and “enlightenment” are terribly vague terms for most people
🕊️“Awakening” and “enlightenment” are terribly vague terms for most people. sometimes referring to the universal, undeniable sense of being that is so simple and everpresently already here that we almost never think to pay attention to it (without training), except when... - josefine...
Everyone should be entranced by a beautiful woman (and it's definitely not a sin)
I'm sitting here about to finalize my draft for "what are holding environments and why they are important" as a deep take. I'm on my second day of bleeding and my brain doesn't work very well. So I'm rather going to share my deep take on my experience....