something I love about the Microsolidarity Network is the regular pulse of people going out into the world to do “group stuff”, then coming back to share lessons
we’re learning how to become the kind of person who can transform a group from okay to awesome
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Some people appear confused about the bar for full awakening in the classical Buddhist sense.
So, here's an uncontroversial minimal definition that cuts across traditions:
Anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi:
anuttara - unsurpassed, there is nothing further
samyak - complete
sam - perfect, correct
bodhi - awakening
What does this actually mean?
1. The delusi... See more
can’t stop thinking about how we get drained if we haven’t charged up on visual imagery in a while - it’s like our inner nature archetypes, which are reused for many cognitive tasks, degrade over time unless we keep syncing them w the real thing
there’s sth here flavored like “whatever can be destroyed by truth should be”
any part of you that needs defense against being seen/felt should probably be looked at even closer
i usually describe this to people as "make your work people-shaped", which is the cognitively ergnomic way of talking about "cognitive ergnomics" (which is, tragically, not cognitively ergonomic)
there is a depth of love that is available to a woman when she can truly claim
“I don't need anything about this moment to be different. I can hold your pain, and I can hold my own. this is important”