Patrick M

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[Patrick M @patrickm]

The true condition being what it is, revealed as it is, cannot be seen as a path to travel.
The state of effortless enlightenment is the source of all.
Its manifestations are all marvelous wonders.

-Garab Dorje

[Patrick M @patrickm]

Nothing dreamed
of becoming everything
And since there was no one around
to stop her
She did

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@SpiritDirtbag Fantastic idea. See you on the other side! 🔱

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@TheProjectUnity https://t.co/xjyY5ocSeb

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Everyone is "psychic"; the people who are able to utilize it are those who accept that not every thought they have is their own.

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@swizardcore @thematrixwizard Saggitarius placements say what

[San @SaanCe]

Everything IS exactly as you want it to be.

[Patrick M @patrickm]

Great point. I had a similar experience starting around that time. I have come to understand it as largely due to the Heart opening.

I said reality "tends to cohere" to our beliefs because the conscious and subconscious ego-based beliefs are only the final edit. From what I have seen, our realities are also being shaped by the collective and those in our field (through agreement), and by our Heart (which is synonymous with higher self and God).

Due to suffering, psychedelics, or a moment of grace, the beliefs we hold can become less rigid - even subconsciously we open to something else being possible. Simultaneously, the heart opens to reveal another dimension of consciousness that is not tied to the old structures. New possibilities can manifest.

Eventually a new belief structure is formed that allows for such things and they go from rare to commonplace - even if they must remain somewhat mysterious due to not cohering with the collective.

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@nameshapes You wouldn't know it was heaven if you'd never seen hell

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@TVachaW "Notice how you breathe when you are thinking" or even "notice how your breathing changes when you get lost in thought" has been a helpful doorway to this technique for me

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@42irrationalist @Meaningness My todo list is primordially complete while spontaneously manifesting a magical display of not having done shit

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@theralkia Apparently, exactly this 🤷‍♂️

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

The Source & Substance of everything
Has no name.
When Wu Hsin names it:
The Eternal or
The Infinite or
What-Is or
That or
The Mystery or
The Absolute,
He merely points to It.
Make a list of
All your pains,
Your sorrows,
Hurts & disappointments.
This, too, is part of It.

Wu Hsin

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@manamajere Soo much more satisfying too

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@samgbafa 💯

[Patrick M @patrickm]

Fantastic analysis. I don't care to exclude any particular tradition from the "Buddhism" label because who cares really - but the gulf between Chan and Japanese Zen is fascinating.

Within Japan, Zen seems to be an expression of the Japanese cultural obsession with purity and minimalism, mixed with a sort of stripped down theravada, as you said.

In the West, however, its popularity seems to be tied to the aire of impenetrability found in very particular strains (dogen, koan practice, blue cliff record etc) that the uninitiated take to indicate secret esoteric wisdom. Perhaps this was the purpose of those things to begin with; no one can tell that you're full of shit if no one understands what you are saying. Lineages retain legitimacy and patronage without anyone ever having to say anything useful.

But these same sects trace their lineage back to Huang Po, who could not have been more clear:

All is an appearance in the one mind, which does not itself appear as an object of perception or have qualities of its own but in which all qualities and perceptions appear. Call it the Buddha if you want, but it was always your own fucking mind. Since it cannot be conceptualized, you might want to sit down and quiet your thinking. Once you get a sense of it, move on!

And yet somehow the only version anyone has ever heard of never mentions any of that, and instead tells you to stare at a wall for the rest of your life or think real hard about nonsense. Oh and don't forget to donate to the temple.

Ps- I know you know all this, I just felt like ranting 🙏

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@Aximilli13 @_OKJ__ 🙏

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@Aximilli13 @_OKJ__ Say more! What is your understanding?

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@realitymap ♥️🙏🪷

[Patrick M @patrickm]

@realitymap I don't know, just a little weird that it happened twice. Can I at least get a new meme?