Gordon Swenson

Enlightenment or bust.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@jhana_bro Chat with @corehess - awesome teacher who has gone through it all energetically in a zen monastery for decade+ under Shodo Harada. Great understanding of energy and a solid guy.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@jhana_bro Or Shodo Harada Roshi, who will say to realize this perfection we must let go of absolutely everything and die the great death.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@jhana_bro To reconcile both, we can listen to people unanimously considered to be enlightened: ex. Harada Tangen Roshi: was considered a living Buddha. In the same talk he will say that everything/one is perfect as it is. But that we must work hard, cook, and be willing to die to see this.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@jhana_bro Also Ramana Maharishi, so peaceful, but said that the force of our practice and samadhi has to be so strong that we’re willing to die to realize the Truth.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@eshear Sounds glorious. And also wild to think that it is also close to how we all used to live.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It's conventional wisdom that focusing too much on work / ambition / wealth isn't the optimal way to live a happy life. Turns out there's an actual chemical explanation for why:
@maxjoseph

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@al3rez Platform 7 🚂

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@IkkyusDen Are you in a rinzai or Soto space?

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

BREAKING: 100 IQ Man Confidently Declares What a 1 Billion IQ AI Will Do

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The scale of the Milky Way

[📹 Epic Spaceman]
https://t.co/hDjUq1sttP

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@Rainmaker1973 Missing metadata

[Chowdah Hill @ChowdahHill]

Morale is the gateway to success. It starts with loving & valuing people, and requires giving people mission & purpose. Without this, the organization will fracture. Many of us have seen that.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@DanEbs @lessin Agree.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

@8teAPi Yeah, but what/who is aware of the perception of a mind. Who or what is watching the movie of a mind? Until we can figure out what that is, isolate it, and replicate it, a random consciousness will be the one which is aware of what your mind was.

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

And experience the sweet flow of streaming life that we all miss from our freedom in childhood or in fleeting moments

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

Meditated after a few days off and it’s wild how much junk builds up in the body: 🧵

[Gordon Swenson @gswenno]

It’s the most redemptive thing. We can melt our own obstacles…