phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
phenomenology
“There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”
“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where... See more
“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where... See more
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
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
Elena Lake 🌿x.comMoreover, adopting this curious, receptive attitude throughout your life is what will make your practice actually meaningful. Sitting for long periods of time is not particularly useful if you don’t make practice part of your way of being. See if you can drop into a state of presence here and there throughout the day. Get into the habit of asking,... See more
Sasha Chapin • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Meditation 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
River Kenna https://x.com/the_wilderless
