phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
phenomenology
But then, something miraculous began to change. I began to see that if I shifted my internal relationship with meeting reality, it softened and moved. It became permeable. I saw that my relationship with everything required me to meet it and allow it to be fluid. I saw that reality was something to fall in love with, in my moment to moment... See more
When Did Things Begin to Unmistakably Shift in Your Practice?
By staying with our raw sensory experience, we cease to see the world through our concepts and subsequent fears. We learn to meet our experience just as it is. A sound is just a sound; a sensation is just a sensation. Nothing more, nothing less. There is profound peace in this quality of presence.
Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
Philosophy
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When we are simply attentive to the raw data of sensory experience, we cultivate a quality of bare attention that is free of concepts, that doesn’t make more out of something than it actually is, that doesn’t build a story around the experience or analyze the experience or imagine a different or better scenario. It is a way of being that is free
... See moreMark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
Just realized I don't really talk about psychedelics anymore because I learned to meditate (and I use that term loosely—what I'm referring to is actually more like a cluster of skills that can be summed up as "sink into and trust my felt senses, which when listened to carefully, reveal vital information about how I take in the world and feed it... See more
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