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- Wise People Have Rules For Themselves
- You Never Have Time, Only Intentions
- The Only Thing You Need to Get Good At
- Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
- Where There’s Stress, There’s a Story
- Getting What We Want Isn’t What We Really Want
- 7 Years and 21 Self-Improvement Experiments: Where They All Are Today
- Mindfulness is the Opposite of Neediness
- Don’t Forget How Strange This All Is
- A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids
- How Mindfulness Creates Freedom
- The elegant secret to self-discipline
- An interview with The Man
- How much of your life are you selling off?
- The person you used to be still tells you what to do
- How to walk across a parking lot
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When I was a kid, I always thought mental illness had to do with a mismatch between reality and your beliefs about it. Later on, I realized this wasn't exactly true. These days the definitions of mental illnesses usually have more to do with whether your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions...
December 7, 2024 at 5:57 pmPipsterateSorry, I should have said, is this in tune with actuality, not with seemingness.
Beautiful. I notice that when my place is neat and simple, I feel calmer. Fewer distraction and stories I suppose. I'm part of an online zen art practice run by a buddhist monastery, and interestingly our topic for the next few weeks is "suchness" (tathata I think it's...
Absolutely loved the word 'seemingness' to describe so many of my troubles and providing succinct description of how to change my negative reception to positive one. thank you.
This is true, and it opens up the question of whether being and seeming are actually separate, and which is primary. What something "is" could be said to be a function of logically combining all the ways in which it has appeared/seemed to us. That is basically how empirical inquiry...
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