Tag: mental-health
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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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The Body knew first – Diagram
The Body Knew First How signals travel between body and brain — and how the mind constructs your reality 1. The Body Observes Your heart, gut, lungs, and organs are constantly sending signals up through the vagus nerve to the brain. These signals carry precise, organized information — which organ, which tissue layer, what stimulus.…
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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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Act of Love
How can I tell my consciousness that people show love in different ways? The love shown on TV — the hugs, the kisses — isn’t the only form of love. An act of love. Can I make my consciousness become aware that small acts of love are the love a person shows towards you? This…
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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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The Job I’m Trying to Quit: My Own Thoughts
Do you enjoy your work?I’m asking sincerely — to everyone who wakes up, gets dressed, and logs into or walks into a 9-to-5 job every day. I’ll be honest: I don’t enjoy mine.And it’s not just the work itself — it’s the voice in my head that comes with it. My Mind at Work It…
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The Energy of Thought: Observing the Spark Behind Our Feelings
What is energy? We talk about it all the time.“I feel drained today.”“I have no energy to do anything.”“I’m feeling low.” We know the body needs food, rest, and movement to sustain energy. But what about the mind? The heart? There’s a different kind of energy that fuels our inner world—the kind that lives inside…
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A Laughing Look at Freedom with J. Krishnamurti
We’re all looking for an escape, a way out of the endless notifications and to-do lists. But what if I told you the real escape wasn’t a Caribbean vacation, but a mind vacation? Enter Jiddu Krishnamurti, a dude who might just save your sanity. Who the heck is Jiddu Krishnamurti, you ask? Imagine a wise…
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