phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
phenomenology
Phenomenology
Is a branch of modern philosophy that attempts to describe phenomena - the world of appearances- ‘as they are’, unmediated by intellectual filters.
Phenomenologists ask themselves - how can we best allow the world of objects to shine forth? Preconceptions and the intellectual apparatus are ‘bracketed out’ in an attempt to let the world
... See moreWhen 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
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
When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your... See more
eigenrobot • the map is of the territory
And as I gave in more and more to focusing on this falling in love and melting with reality, I began to see that something was always trying to happen. There was always this melting, this melding with, making friends with reality available. I only had to feel and be creative in allowing reality to let me in. And when I met it, there was more and... See more
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one of my big shifts the last four years was from
"health & wellbeing as a list of chores I have to do"
to
"health & wellbeing as a self-motivating attractor state, because feeling good feels good"
a key to the shift seems to be:... See more
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