Stuart Evans
@stuartevans
piano technician • collaborative pianist
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Rainbow Onions and Turquoise Gardeners
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The hippie world & the science world can be reconciled, here's how to do it:
1. Take a break from arguing over mechanism/metaphysical assumptions (HIPPIE: It works because of mystical energy! RATIONALIST: There's no such thing!)
2. Empirically test whether there are... See more
Tyler Altermanx.com
The willingness to do hard things opens great windows of opportunity. – One of the most important abilities you can develop in life is the willingness to accept and grow through times of difficulty and discomfort.
Marc Chernoff • 19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday
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.
Sasha Chapin • Review: Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery
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
Emotions seem to guide us towards a connective energy that in Eastern traditions has been given the name, "chi." From 20 years of working with horses, I've come to know that energetic tissue that binds each of us to collective mind as implicit to experience. It's always there.
Christina Fedorx.com