Tag: consciousness
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Koan – on name
In your mind Name a person who you hold dear. Think of all the emotions, feelings, behaviors, memories and how the person makes you feel, their face, their voice, a specific memory, how your body feels when thinking of them Now convert this name to a jumbled 16-character name. Store all the things associated with…
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The Thirst That Doesn’t Know It’s Thirsty
On Tanha — Craving — and the Spoke of the Wheel I First Saw Turning “With feeling as a condition, there is the arising of craving.” — The Buddha, Paticcasamuppada I Noticed Something It didn’t arrive with fanfare. There was no dramatic crisis, no obvious object of desire. Just a quiet, persistent pull — a…
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Tired of Your Brain’s Endless Spin Cycle? Meet Papañca!
Ever feel like your brain has a mind of its own? Like there’s a tiny, overly enthusiastic narrator in your head, constantly adding commentary, side stories, and dramatic interpretations to everything? You see a bird, and suddenly you’re thinking about migration patterns, that one documentary you watched, your grandma’s pet canary, and whether you should…
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Wind
If it is meant for me,It will fly like a bird towards my tree and land on it quietlyIf it not meant for meI will still feel the wind on my branches
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The Body Knew First
I’ve spent most of my life living in my head. Thinking, analyzing, observing, inferring. I’ve read Krishnamurti. I’ve sat in meditation. I’ve mapped out how the mind filters reality — how experience becomes observation becomes memory becomes inference. I’ve written about it, spoken about it, circled it from every cerebral angle I could find. And…
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How Do You See What’s Already in Front of You?
I’ve been sitting with a question that came out of my last meditation, and it won’t leave me alone: How does one observe things fresh — in the moment — without the inference of the same room, the same neighborhood, the same life? How can I increase the gap between raw observation and inference, so…
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The Anatomy of a Filtered Life
If I map out how I move through the world, it looks something like this: Experience → Observation → Memory → Inference Four steps. By the time I reach the last one, I’m no longer anywhere near the truth of what actually happened. Let me walk through it — through my own life — to…
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On the Nature of Thoughts: An Exploration of Awareness
The Three Origins of Thought I tend to see for myself Our thoughts arise from three distinct sources, each revealing something fundamental about consciousness itself: The Voluntary Thought — Even in silence, when the mind rests quiet, I find myself reaching for something to think about. I summon a memory, usually from the past, pulling…
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Snippets on my mind
Society Do not let society define you or your self-worth. Society will tend to define you – you are poor as you don’t have money. You are rich, you are rude, you are gullible, you are shy etc. You do not have to take these definitions to heart. Only you, as an individual, have the…
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Feelings
Every day after having worked like a machine on my job that I sometimes enjoy and sometimes don’t, I find myself feeling empty, deflated and wondering what comes next. What to do next? There are so many activities that I can take up and so many, I have invested my time in before my illness,…
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🧘♀️ Sādhana Pāda: The Practice of Yoga – A Simple Guide to Patanjali’s Second Chapter
If the first chapter of the Yoga Sūtras, Samādhi Pāda, is about the goal of yoga—stilling the mind and reaching deep meditative states—then the second chapter, Sādhana Pāda, is about the how. It answers the question: ✨ How do I start practicing yoga in daily life? Let’s break it down into simple, practical ideas from…
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