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@RogerThisdell
To realise the nature of mind, recognise emptiness, unstick bodymind contractions, overcome nihilism and transmute suffering 馃А
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馃啎 Very pleased to share my expanded essay on Somatic-Visual coupling. 猬囷笍
"Have you ever noticed that with a high degree of accuracy, you know what it would feel like to lick any surface you look at? And I mean just by looking, not actually touching. No? Well, give it a try, now. Look at the nearest table, wall, or whatever object to you and imagine licking it. You have an immediate sense of the felt texture of it, don't you?"
"Have you ever noticed that with a high degree of accuracy, you know what it would feel like to lick any surface you look at? And I mean just by looking, not actually touching. No? Well, give it a try, now. Look at the nearest table, wall, or whatever object to you and imagine licking it. You have an immediate sense of the felt texture of it, don't you?"
Built a neat meditation finder on my website that suggests any of my almost 200 guided meditations depending what you're in the mood for!
This was a really cool phenomenological finding to explore with Cube Flipper, which you can test for yourself and could prove quite significant in terms of revealing how people see the world radically differently. How does this affect one's overall valence? How does it change their sense of relationship with the world? #somaticvisualcoupling
new post day! a collaboration with the meditation coach @RogerThisdell. when you lie upside down and look at the horizon, what do you see? when i do this, i see curved lines, whereas roger sees straight lines! (chatgpt assisted replication)View quoted post on X
RE Jhana discussions:
Remember, jargon is used as shorthand for experts who already agree amongst themselves that they are talking about the same thing. If there isn't shared agreement then jargon only causes more confusion. A lot of contention can be resolved by recognising where in the conversation we are and attending to a more appropriate level of abstraction where first agreement can be found. For this reason, micro-phenomenology is often a better descriptive level for most of us, than appropriating jargon from other cultural traditions or areas of expertise that we are not deeply entrenched in.
This is the reason the new agers got so much flack from physicists.
May we not compound upon confusion, but find what inside ourselves is causing distortions 馃檹
Remember, jargon is used as shorthand for experts who already agree amongst themselves that they are talking about the same thing. If there isn't shared agreement then jargon only causes more confusion. A lot of contention can be resolved by recognising where in the conversation we are and attending to a more appropriate level of abstraction where first agreement can be found. For this reason, micro-phenomenology is often a better descriptive level for most of us, than appropriating jargon from other cultural traditions or areas of expertise that we are not deeply entrenched in.
This is the reason the new agers got so much flack from physicists.
May we not compound upon confusion, but find what inside ourselves is causing distortions 馃檹
So many people want to know 'Do I have stream entry?', 'Did I get first Jhana?'. These questions strike me as putting the horse before the carriage and deferring to others too much to tell them what they experienced.View quoted post on X
First have an experience and then give it a name (if you want). Don't start with a name then try to fit an experience into it.
In fact, a better achievement is to able to have clarity of your own experience, so much so, that you know what you're experiencing without substituting a description of its micro-phenomenology for such poorly defined terms.
Shorthand jargon is best used by people who have already established they are speaking about the same phenomenon through a prior process of detailed descriptions. When that jargon gets co-opted by laymen who don't understand all the context and details of its creation, it is less than useful, it is obfuscating. We are not only so far removed from the details and context of the creation of the word 'Sotapanna' (stream entry), we are also no where near a shared agreement of its appropriate designation. At this point, I think the terms is not only mostly unhelpful, but I see how it compounds confusion, rather than clarifies.