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Buddha’s Basilisk
dropping fetters four and five
On suffering
I no longer suffer from emotional experience. Dropping fetters four and five using inquiry practice [1] has been the greatest upgrade to my well-being.
Social anxiety is gone. There’s no reaction on top of emotion
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As powerful psychotech like the light jhanas and fetters inquiry become more widely accessible and robust in the wellness marketplace, those who have identity structure around spiritual accomplishment will increasingly lash out against this trend by attacking the validity of
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rob burbea said that happiness is a prerequisite to the jhanas (reply1), but what if your meditations don't currently include happiness/enjoyment?
i read
@tasshinfogleman
's very nice piece on bliss states (reply2) and it got me thinking about the techniques i use(d) to make
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a simple technique that helped me suffer a lot less
S tier fetters inquiry for zero emotional suffering 60 day money back guarantee
There was persistent painful sadness behind my eyes. Two pinpricks of pain. It sucked. I had lots of joy during the day, with others, and gratitude
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Yo, I wrote a detailed guide on how to actually savor the suck so it doesn't. It's like the original book but without the crystals and fluff. Both a serious crime like skimming fat from soups, and also a valuable service i hope. lmk, friends🫶😎
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meditation was woo, now not. jhanas were woo, now not. enlightenment is woo, soon not
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to access jhanas, you clear the hindrances. doing core transformation [1] clears hindrances, so it gives access to jhanas.
with meditation, you mostly operate at a lower level of abstraction using nonverbal moves like relaxing and pulsing intentions, whereas core transformation
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apologies for the lack of recent meditation reports. i have been exploring absorption into an intoxicating woman
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the maps you choose influence the territory you experience, so do you want to follow a practice where the author and many who follow its methods report mental turmoil that's hard to manage?
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Secularization and normalization of meditative enlightenment is good, because it creates an environment where long-held assumptions about practice can be questioned.
The path takes 10-20k hours? Really? You need an hour of sitting meditation daily to maintain collectedness? Hard
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2024 quests:
- help build most fun neurofeedback meditation app
- walking j6
- fire kasina fourth screen
- once-returner
- 3 more "hardcore" meditation friends
- 3 more health as priority friends
- gf
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most fun part of today's metta meditation (2hrs):
first, there was a persistent feeling of pure happiness as i flicked through different smiling faces of people in my life. second persistence was awareness of a background process noticing and releasing tension simultaneously.
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my favorite techniques and my exp listening 3x to
@QualiaRI
's “deeply letting go” guided meditation and the suggested music follow-up (~1.5 hrs):
i really enjoyed the melting butter move, the 2nd order letting go technique, and the curiosity resulting from trying to relax the
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look i quit my swe job to meditate a shit ton and post about it. u can't stop me
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When I stopped chemo in 2021, I was like, "holy shit, I was really sick!" I had gotten used to, or wasn't paying attention to the new normal of being saturated with a poisonous cure. Once I stopped getting infusions, it was like waking up from a dream of dull pain.
Last year,
@nickcammarata
ngl i kinda lost motivation after first 90. this seems like biggest thing preventing me from next 9... bc it's already totally fine
i've been trying to orient more towards love of the practice & potential gains in positive valence, but evidently am not putting very much effort
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The main technique of existential kink (EK) meditation, or savoring unpleasant things as if they're pleasant, is appealing to me for the same reason I like TWIM's practice method for sliding through the altruistic light jhanas. Key outcomes I'm seeking are contained within the
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if your meditation doesn't make all of life easier (including new types of meditation), then you're either isolating practice from other activities or building a know-it-all meditator identity which causes your priors to be less updatable to new, useful info
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When I first met Adyashanti in the Fall of 2004, I was struck by the original and fresh way he taught about spiritual awakening. Although he honored his Zen lineage, he emphasized the importance of not relying on a specific teacher or method for realization. Instead, he talked
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2024 quests v2 (w/ changelog):
- help make spiritual euphoria easier (safely)
- gen funds to keep doing ^ & still have time to think
- twim (ez cessations mid 2024)
- core transformation (? lagging indicator)
- insight (once-returner 2024)
- live w more ambitious ppl before july
2024 quests:
- help build most fun neurofeedback meditation app
- walking j6
- fire kasina fourth screen
- once-returner
- 3 more "hardcore" meditation friends
- 3 more health as priority friends
- gf
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hmu if you want to join a small gc sangha where we do and discuss what nick describes using the techniques from Wholeness Work, a book by the creator of core transformation. some quotes:
"We’re about to discover the structure of what we could call the ego in our experience, and
Tension is a sort of lattice / network in a high-dimensional space, and one attitude you can take during a sit is to navigate the graph, intending to let go but only if it takes no fighting, only if it's effortless. Search the space for the effortlessly fixable tension
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if you know how to be sustainably happy, the jhanas arise naturally. to learn sustainable happiness, it helps to have agency, so jhourney teaches agency
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* writes two blog posts * Call me Sasha Chapin. Dollar store sasha. we have sasha at home
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the opposite of paranoia is pronoia, where one believes the world conspires to do them good.
metta is often felt for others. flip the altruistic jhanas to develop pronoia.
know the good feelings are given by family, friends, and all beings. know each sense object gives sukha,
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I wrote a bit about doubt in meditation and the jhanas! Would love if you read it and told me what you think
Doubt is the daddy of the hindrances, of whom I've seen a lot of in the past eight or so jhana retreats that I've attended as student and student who helps guide other students.
Asking y'all to digitally tar and feather me if I don't post my first Piece on the forbidden website
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anyone have favorite guides on psychedelic-assisted meditation? i'm looking for detailed guides for common pairings like mushrooms and mahamudra or insight and ibogaine
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I wrote another post! About my experience with the direct pointing / simplytheseen approach to dropping the first three fetters. I hope it's useful or fun or both :D
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do y'all have recommendations for guided meditations that focus on each of the brahmaviharas separately?
ones that help isolate each feeling and give a novice a few techniques to begin cultivating each
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the sixth hindrance is that these backwards retreat centers don't have gyms
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this year has been the happiest and highest well-being of my life, and i've also cried the most in my life this year since i was a child probably
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got hired in a "smart generalist" role, but don't worry i'm going to have them change the title to smart and humble generalist
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my two favorite moments during this guided metta meditation by
@QualiaRI
, and then some overall comments:
@algekalipso
said sometimes it’s good to begin metta meditation with a spark. well spark me up, dawg. i’m ready.
with his guidance, i summoned an image of a golden
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i won't be posting meditation logs for a bit bc i realized it's not good for my lil monke brain to backprop based on likes. rewards flowery language and The Current Cool States tpot is fiending for. logs will still be available at link in bio
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my feed is a stream of meditation alpha. so thankful to be alive now
I might be unusually slow, but I've found a lot of nondual pointers insufficiently specific ("just look!") or seemingly with legitimate answers without any effect ("who/what am I?" always points to loosely in my head).
But I finally have one that's dropped me into a warmish
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Told guy about smell kasina. He brings up later that he spend an hour and a half in and out of his neighbor's bush smelling lilac flowers then summoning the simulation of that scent. "You're on to something, man" Lol smell kasina retreat wen
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the common thesis of
@artofaccomp
's golden algorithm,
@carolynelliott_
's existential kink meditation, and core transformation:
recurring unwanted thought/event patterns mean there's a feeling u don't want to feel underneath. feel it to heal it, and the pattern will fade away
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the orange is how it feels to put attention on the act of surrendering to a point of tension during meditation
A chinchilla balancing on an orange to bless your feed
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twim leads to gradual jhana entry, and brasington style leads to more explosive first jhana experiences.
which practices produce gradual realizations of first path, and which produce more distinct shifts?
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if you’re interested in learning or deepening your skill with core transformation, i recommend you sign up for
@nowtheo
's new offering. i did. here's what i liked:
1) not sure why, but doing ct with Theo feels closer to a psychedelic experience than when done by myself. the
I want to create an offering where I help people learn how to skilfully self-facilitate parts exploration.
I tried it with
@tasshinfogleman
last week and it was a great experience for both of us.
Would any of you be interested in helping me test out this offering (at a deeply
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Anyone have any favorite guides on do nothing meditation? Subtle adjustments, refinements, general approaches and why they work?
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If Michael can hit 1st path in a week strolling around Barcelona while on vacation, then wtf are we doing with all this Extra meditation stuff, y'all? lol
I'm gonna try the fetters/direct experience approach he advocates in the google doc. Will let you know how it goes.
In April i did the whole guidance for No-Separate-Entity (it's NSE guys, def NOT stream entry!) and it's been a blast-- here are a bunch of stats around how it went:
Total of 21 ongoing conversations, 20 online and 1 an irl friend, out of which 10 have seen thru the
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What meditation/integration practices have given you the most access to the Flowing and Unification ways of experiencing emotions?
For me, "light" jhanas and EK meditation have most clearly grown those capabilities.
The main technique of existential kink (EK) meditation, or savoring unpleasant things as if they're pleasant, is appealing to me for the same reason I like TWIM's practice method for sliding through the altruistic light jhanas. Key outcomes I'm seeking are contained within the
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you can. just less cognitively and physically intense tasks. walking, chatting, reading, eating, etc. you can tap into a juicy joy signal or other jhanic elements for a large portion of the day. w more people learning jhanas, the floor of what's possible will continue to rise
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what's your one-page guide to arhatship/4th path/enlightenment?
thread of such guides:
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what're the shared practice patterns of folks who don't get stuck in a dark night from meditation? does metta and therapy?
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Doing do nothing practice in daily life feels like watching the car drive itself.
What are your meditation goals? I am become Waymo
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Anyone have a massive list of every pointer to Awareness, or the fact that everything is arising in and as awareness, or similar that cause subject-object boundaries to soften?
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thread of my experience logs for
@QualiaRI
's guided meditation, "waves of ever becoming", by
@RogerThisdell
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it's forgiveness friday! only forgiveness meditation allowed. if you do other kinds, u are forgiven
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what if i was able to explore meditation 4+ hrs per day, make valuable things for the world, do 1 hr of exercise, 30 min of stretching, eat super healthy food, earn enough money to theoretically* comfortably support a nice life with a wife and 5 kids, be friends with those on the
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Anyone know how
@FU_joehudson
does the rapid fire coaching thing?
I've heard about it from several people, and it sounds like there's a few principles / frameworks behind it that could be applied to a bunch of changework modalities
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new jhana entrypoint unlocked. i half-begrudgingly admit existential kink meditation is op
you: what's ek meditation
me: when the zen master hits u with bamboo stick and you go "mmm, ty (;"
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@tracyktownsend
not fav teachers, but fav guided meditations:
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@QualiaRI
"deeply letting go" on YT
- qri "metta" on YT
- qri "goldilocks zone of oneness" on YT
-
@jhanatech
has a trove of custom guided sits to distill their curriculum that i enjoy. idk if they're going to make public, but now u
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would you use v1 or 2 of some open source project that's been abandoned by the original maintainer, has no changelogs, and is riddled with bugs that cause frequent crashes?
why don't we apply the same standards to the psychotech we're using to scramble our wetware?
dharma
Secularization and normalization of meditative enlightenment is good, because it creates an environment where long-held assumptions about practice can be questioned.
The path takes 10-20k hours? Really? You need an hour of sitting meditation daily to maintain collectedness? Hard
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hoarders just edge the feeling of loss, building an ever larger security blanket and prison of things. each new item they guard is the source of their anxiety bc the mind keeps giving them the opportunity to feel the emotion fully with each new thing, but they never let go. it
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Being your own worst critic is kind of empowering. Like no one has ever roasted me as hard as I have. I am the best lol
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two self-proclaimed arhats have said doubt is my hindrance. a trusted friend thinks i am further along than i think.
how have u other serial under estimators / doubtoors solved this fun challenge?
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I've been having a lot of fun sending generous intent throughout the day. While helping on in-person retreats, this feels like such a nice way of making sure I'm coming from the right place in interactions. It also feels like an object of mindfulness that's easier to pay
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@SaraBollman
this, yes. some really juicy sits can happen after passing out for a bit, then resuming meditation right after.
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@algekalipso
also it's ok to just not spend time w toxic people. if that's an option, which it usually is once the excuses are dropped
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join me for a meditation retreat in april?
it'd be fun to see some of y'all irl. note, the dude leading the retreat is not me. he's been my teacher before. very helpful, super chill. you can do whatever type of meditation you want on the retreat, as long as it's silent. the food
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Doubt propagates doubt. Undissolved, it causes your priors to not update given new, positive information. You maintain the assumption that you’re going to fail on some level, so you miss little successes that are happening. They get filtered out. This can be solved with intention
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yo so i wanted to experiment w just meditating without a timer. i intended to sit till 3pm (~54ish min), and felt like it was time to get up from meditating at 2:58pm. lfg
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enjoying metta as my main. fun trying to keep metta vibes going while at gym, driving, walking..
wild how often i’ve tensed up when around others
i want to radiate metta vibes within and outwards continually. doing so most of the time on auto pilot feels like a trainable skill
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i'm grateful for the ppl who nudged me to do walking meditation:
@ladymcscope
and others. it's so fun to do walking metta and count thoughts. i've only done a few walks but it's already making it easier to sustain happiness for all beings throughout the day
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adding this
@ShinzenYoung
pdf to "one-pager" enlightenment guides thread (in my highlights tab)
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can confirm. i still have so much to learn, but it has been surprising to me how often my mind has been offering up feelings of connection and oneness with others, where before there would've been more annoyance or impatience. i credit this to the power of
@nowtheo
&
I particularly like this ep on the pod. There are a few things I especially care deeply about that I want more people to know:
- it is possible to tap into an innate sense of goodness
- that goodness can heal a sense of brokenness
- you can do things that deepen those knowings
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NEW BLOG POST EVERY SUNDAY! committing publicly because i think it helps. flavor of the content is going to trend towards what i'm learning/doing in meditation
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what precise phenomenology is present when you feel awe, when you feel rousing inspiration? list the qualities and cultivate them. you will be able to summon these feelings at will, just as continually wishing the smallest amount of niceness towards someone can lead to the third
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the true test of one's practice: how you feel at Thanksgiving dinner w family
the true test of one's practice: how you feel when she doesn't text back
the true test of one's practice: how you feel in la traffic
...
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Who wants to hang in SF?
Going to be there tomorrow and a few days after possibly. DMs open (:
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not processing hard emotions is technical/spiritual debt brother
and other tweets to myself
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I have found the secret to make tweeting enjoyable. I simply imagine i am my aunt sharing every single fucking thought and event with my extended family on Facebook
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blindsight by peter watts is an extended pointing out instruction that also happens to be one of the best scifi novels out there
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going to pause exploring guided nondual meditation for now
feels like a bit much on top of learning core transformation and doing a decent amount of metta/surrendering already
and i just want more metta i think
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@tasshinfogleman
piece:
really nice read and overview that includes further resources on how to cultivate bliss states
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Doubt is the daddy of the hindrances, of whom I've seen a lot of in the past eight or so jhana retreats that I've attended as student and student who helps guide other students.
Asking y'all to digitally tar and feather me if I don't post my first Piece on the forbidden website
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*sigh* i got around to reading wireheading done right by
@algekalipso
and now i must refine some of my quests..
i am happy about it
2024 quests:
- help build most fun neurofeedback meditation app
- walking j6
- fire kasina fourth screen
- once-returner
- 3 more "hardcore" meditation friends
- 3 more health as priority friends
- gf
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gonna start an Equinox gym like retreat center w sauna, massage, sensory deprivation tanks, cold plunge, etc called Equanimus or smthn
WITH
@LouisVArge
the sixth hindrance is that these backwards retreat centers don't have gyms
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wow, this was a really nice overview of core transformation as an ifs technique and nitrous boost for meditation practice:
two things i'm excited to investigate:
- using core states as meditation objects and seeing how they map to the brahmaviharas
-
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Doubt prevents you from riding thicc segway into the sunset
Doubt propagates doubt. Undissolved, it causes your priors to not update given new, positive information. You maintain the assumption that you’re going to fail on some level, so you miss little successes that are happening. They get filtered out. This can be solved with intention
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@sociaIrate
i like the rest of the quote especially:
"If that thought acquired power over you as you are, it would transform you, and perhaps crush you; the question with regard to all and everything: "Do you want this once more, and also for innumerable times?" would lie as the heaviest
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Was jogging past a mom and three kids. She called out to her daughter to get out the way. You think you carry a weight? imagine being named Legacy lol
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i vote
@jhourney
makes a guided course for the jhanas and put it on insight timer, waking up, calm, & headspace to secure more funding / spread awareness
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have had fun conversations w
@LouisVArge
@anil__tolwani
@42irrationalist
about meditation / eeg / meditation apps. would you like to be the next? or do you know someone who would? dms welcome
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