Stuart Evans
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piano technician • collaborative pianist
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Self-discipline is actually self-domination. It’s when you privilege one of your internal stakeholders at the expense of all the others. Inevitably your psyche generates a coup and disrupts your life.
Daniel Kazandjian • Discipline is not Freedom
River Kenna
meditation and
Cosmology, Democracy, and the Spirit of the Earth
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Through the body I am deeply ecological, profoundly and ceaselessly in conversation with the physical and the social milieu in which I am embedded (and from which I am continually emerging).
Guy Claxton • Science and Spirituality: 'Effing the Ineffable'
This isn't some esoteric state accessible only to dedicated monastics or mystics. It's our natural condition, the ground of all experience, temporarily obscured by the very predictive patterns that allow us to function in the world. What contemplative traditions offer are simply methods for reconnecting with what was never actually lost - our... See more
Daniel Thorson • Predictive Processing and The Sacred
We're on the frontier of figuring out trust and authority in the information age.
Infinite Play • Democratic Authority
According to Mark, nobody can tell you how you should meditate, fully. The way your mind is fucked up will be radically specific. You will thus have to throw out the rules and make your own at some point. Following instructions too rigidly will lead to useless mental play-acting.