danielbrottman.bsky.social
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such a great book!
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heehee :)
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that's a nice idea
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I think I might just embrace the twitter
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idk, I kinda doubt it, at least along my broader circle. we'll see
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hundo p I recommend it
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-more patience and agendalessness, which includes willingness to move, to change energies, as well as comfort with less activity
-better tuned to the subtleties of what keeps bodies physically in contact, how gravity, friction, and leverage interact
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-more ability to be attuned to partner and myself in terms of desires and intentions
-more trust that i can take care of myself and my partner can take care of herself
-more natural sense of when bodies organically want to change positions
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I can't imagine having a tweet thought that was only appropriate for one or the other, unless it's like this one where i’m tweeting about bsky
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thank you hahaha :)
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beautiful. i love that you asked yourself that question
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but anyway these last several tweets are just caveats. the point of this thread is organize concepts in a way that helps me get in touch with simple, authentic, earnest, wholesome, embodied, genuine, desire
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(in regards to awakening, i don't think the intellect is only this trap to be dodged; it is also a tool that has beneficial use, and a tool we cannot avoid using)
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much easier to just say "awakening will fix it, i just need to awaken." or, of course, to just believe one can keep suffering at bay through means of control, by domination of conditions. ultimately these are the same strategy - awakening becomes imagined as a means of control
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the trick is that the intellect can get ahead of the game and try to answer the genuine questions without actually facing them. why allow my heart to be torn open, humbled, confused, to lie naked upon the fire and the ice?
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and i think they're within all humans actually, and are often awoken upon significant enough contact with suffering
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this said, i do believe that the genuine wants that lead a human being into the kind of sincere inquiry that in turn leads to awakening are certainly in my system; i have seen them arise spontaneously and also systematically nourished them
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can i trust that the *truly* OPEN-ENDED, IMPARTIAL, VULNERABLE, HUMBLE, EARNEST, SINCERE engagement with this question will be ok? will, in fact, *lead* me to what it is that i actually want?
even if i don't end up "wanting awakening?"
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what is it that i actually want?
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i posted the 5 recollections today as
@wystantbs.bsky.social
reminded me of them yesterday. they are skillful thoughts that i would describe as traditionally helping nourish the actual WANT to be free, not the SHOULD
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"i want to get this awakening business out of the way so i can move on with my life" does not embody commitment, but mere obligation
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"i *should* awaken, it will be good for me, i am convinced by those who sing its praises."
how is this fuel that could ever lead to a burning need to be free, a practice for the sake of practice, a vow that would extend throughout centuries and lifetimes if given the chance?
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i write this, ofc, as i confront my own fixation around "awakening," and am forced to admit that it is not an entirely clean motivation. in AoA terms i might say it is (at least in part) a "should" rather than an actual "want"
www.artofaccomplishment.com/podcast/want...
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i am the owner of my kamma, heir to my kamma, born of my kamma, related to my kamma, abide supported by my kamma. whatever kamma i shall do, for good or for ill, of that i will be the heir
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yayyyyyy
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beautiful
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the most salient feature of, (i guess "hard") stream entry, as best as i can tell from books, teachers, etc, seems to be dropping the first fetter of personality view - seeing unmistakably and completely through the illusion that there is a self who experience is happening to and being controlled by
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meaning ok maybe you haven't actually dropped the first three fetters (personality view, doubt, reliance on rites/rituals), but there is a sense in which you are in the stream of the dharma and that will inevitably keep developing in you
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for point of contrast, one of my primary meditation teachers, who is on the teacher's guiding council at spirit rock, has a view that anyone who goes through a ~6 week retreat or longer has probably tipped into something he has referred to as "soft stream entry,"
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lmao
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based
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idk, couldn't say
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rip
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lmao
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oh nice, well met fellow traveler
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hahaha
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ooo i’m a starter 🔥🔥🔥