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As a student of duality, I've collected a bunch of findings on the nature of experience, some of it in the twitter threads below.
@QiaochuYuan The mental gymnastics for this usually go "Well you see you may THINK you're finding spiritual satisfaction from an alternate source, but since our God is the only god, you were actually worshipping YHVH the whole time! Sike!"
@OrphicCapital Once it's been taken for good that our life guidance has to come from somewhere outside, it's been just one long list of candidates trying to speak over one another to actually be our life's guidebook, with predictably terrible consequences, each and every of them
@OrphicCapital I think it goes deeper/further than that; the fundamental split is when culture started positing that someone else's judgment of you has a moral quality (esp. religion), instead of leaving that to our inner compass.
@shinboson Happiness doesn't happen in a mind divided, and until the last, there sits a part in us that wouldn't ever call us wrong. I'd think the closest one can get to happiness with that kind of ideas in the house is a pained cohabitation.
Simone Weil wrote โImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.โ I think about this truth a lot.
mutual improves executive function/productivity/conscientiousness by writing down every decision plans on doing on paper, doesn't act without writing the decision down first
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@myceliummage They really only get remembered if they become part of the moving. Things really only stay if you materialize them, if you make them into something real, otherwise any wind blows them away.
@saul_mondriaan If you manage to learn enough to not fall back into the old issues, that's progress. Life ideally is a series of doing fresh new mistakes each time (while not repeating the past ones)
@jonnym1ller You can definitely have unpleasant experiences with emotions, but that depends on how you know to handle them. You can drown in the sea, does that make water bad?
That said, when going in pursuit of specific states of consciousness, you also start selecting for only some emotions
@HamishDoodles You don't. Experience is the only thing that can teach that you can survive whatever's being thrown at you, by virtue of you having already survived whatever's come your way. Lessons on the way on how to do it better are also useful.
@univrsw3th4rt It's a gradual process of gradually losing the motivation to do nothing (because we've been taught that it's best to do nothing) and gradually making a different choice, in each moment, every moment, taking the new emotions as signs of being on the right path and embracing them
@visakanv Much easier than changing our emotions is changing our relationship to them. With understanding of them comes the ability to work *with* them instead of being dragged along, of playing alongside them instead of passively being subjected to them
@visakanv It's a good idea to ask, why is the creeping ominous feeling there in the first place? Is it perhaps the way that the motivating emotional force is expressed? Is it what bangs the rhythm of the march? Is it telling you to be careful and deliberate and wary?