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Vince Fakhoury Horn
@VinceFHorn
Good thread, though I disagree that the point is to be whittled away and not grow back. This is likely her not seeing her own deeply held story about no stories being the best story.
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Aella
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1/We operate based on this incredibly complicated 'tree' of beliefs. High-level (twigs) beliefs is performative identity stuff like "that politician is bad" or "vegetarian diets are healthy". Underneath this we get to small branches like "freedom is important" and-
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Vince Fakhoury Horn
@VinceFHorn
"If delusion is awareness stuck in attention-traps, and enlightenment liberates awareness, does the spiritual path involve finding the correct story, or getting rid of stories, or learning to story in a new way?" - David Loy, "The World is Made of Stories"
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Vince Fakhoury Horn
@VinceFHorn
I think John Vervake's notion that "evolution is revolution with change" is a more accurate way of understanding insight. But again, this is a lovely thread, with a nice organizing metaphor, even though in nature, trees don't actually behave that way, they're always regrowing.
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Vince Fakhoury Horn
@VinceFHorn
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Yeah, that was the point I was making. I followed your tree analogy right up to the end, when you said the point is to be "wittled away without growing back." That implies a goal of having a lack of beliefs. One can't story without belief or believe without stories, can they?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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I sort of awkwardly mean in this analogy that the tree is comprised of beliefs you are subject to. After whittling, your belief system should become like someone who "believes" in tarot as a meaningmaking tool.
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