Tag: mindfulness
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Loops/Circles
I sat in meditation on Monday and noticed that I am always living from the outside in. Meaning, I am always focused on the outside world or environment. My thoughts, feelings, and emotions are outwardly directed. Maybe because I need to finish a task, and that causes anxiety in me. Maybe I have thoughts of…
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Contradiction
Have you ever wanted two completely opposite things at the same time — and both felt completely true? I want to be productive. But I also desperately want peace. I want to make money. But I honestly don’t know how yet — and sitting with that not-knowing is uncomfortable. I want to be loving, caring,…
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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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Meditate on this
Meditate on the word “Blue Sky” Notice the stories that the mind spins up. Can the mind accept any other color for sky than blue? Remove the word blue from “Blue sky”. Notice what the mind comes up with for just “Sky”. Does it want to color it a specific color because we don’t know…
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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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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…
