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Ben on Joseph Everett’s WIL Newsletter
The meditation was making Xuefeng notice the visual oddity of ordinary things, their tendency to tilt into the nonordinary. His friend’s eyes looked beautiful, not quite human, in the dim light. “Well, since you ask, yes, I do worry, I get anxious, my life is going past me like a galloping horse. I get depressed, I don’t feel that I’m of any use. B
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
So just do the meditations without expectation. There is no reason to re-experience the past, no matter how profound. Trying to do so only enhances the “me” and solidifies the very pseudo-entity that meditation endeavors to take you beyond. It is an act of surrender to let go of trying to reproduce the past, but a completely necessary one. Get all
... See moreAdyashanti • Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life
The thing with meditation is that it’s a paradox. If you go into it wanting to attain certain states and feel a certain way and get rid of how you currently feel etc then you’re just craving and clinging more which will get you nowhere.
A more practical, less exhausting path to enlightenment (Part 5)
In meditation, you are supposed to closely observe your mind and body, witness the ceaseless arising and passing of all your feelings, and realise how pointless it is to pursue them. When the pursuit stops, the mind becomes very relaxed, clear and satisfied.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The apparent paradox of nirvana haunts all religious conceptions of eternity. Absolute fullness is inseparable from absolute emptiness and absolute presence is inseparable from absolute absence. My argument is that we should reject the idea that such a state of being is a goal worth striving for.