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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh Apr 17
      Replying to @iwelsh @Failed_Buddhist

      I should probably do one of the Mahasi retreats one day, given they're free.

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    2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @iwelsh

      I hope to do one of those too at some point. If you read The Progress of Insight by Mahasi, what he describes is very similar. You pay close attention to *everything* that's happening. Not just body sensations, but also thoughts, intentions, body movements It's hardcore shit.

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    3. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh Apr 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      I've tended to concentrate on volition more than anything else, even at times when I shouldn't. It interests me the most. Thoughts are similiar, you think you're doing them, you're not. At a low level it feels virtually identical.

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    4. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh Apr 17
      Replying to @iwelsh @Failed_Buddhist

      impulses and thoughts arise, you don't control them, they aren't you, and I've found that the insight is startlingly unpleasant in raw form: feel like a puppet being jerked around by BS.

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    5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @iwelsh

      Right! Like, I don't actually know how I'm typing this. Thoughts arise, then intention, then impulse, and then my fingers just move. It's utterly mysterious.

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    6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh

      Concentrating on volition is the most powerful way to go, imo. When you see that everything you thought *you* were doing is actually happening on its own, it shakes you to your core.

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    7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh

      Though, if I were a teacher, I wouldn't recommend it to a beginner. If one doesn't already have good emotional self-regulation, it can be destabilizing. I suspect that shattering the sense of agency is even scarier than getting no-self, because it makes you feel totally helpless.

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    8. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh

      Also, apparently there are people who have allegedly gotten no-self that still somehow believe they have free of will. Which I just find completely bizarre. Who has free will, exactly? If you think you're choosing your thoughts, intentions, and actions, you're still confused.

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    9. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh Apr 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      it sometimes seems like one can "choose between". Even that is an illusion (on what basis do you choose?), but there can be this increased sense of freedom/choice because of the increased awareness.

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    10. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @iwelsh

      If you're deliberating between a number of options, you may spend a lot of time going back and forth, reasoning this way and that. This makes the illusion more vivid. Of course, at the moment of action, it's all the same. People just don't pay attention to the actual process.

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh

      Philosophical arguments against free will don't often convince people either, because of the felt sense of freedom. "But why do I *feel* free?" Well... same reason you feel tired, or cold, or itchy, or anything else. It's just a feeling.

      10:59 PM - 17 Apr 2018
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        2. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh Apr 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          The realization that everything is just a sense object is both scary and freeing. And the chapter is finished - concentration, mental power and equanimity: then loving kindness and insight -- doing/is it me.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
          Replying to @iwelsh

          It's really hard to describe it to people. You wanna just be like "dude, just look!", but that's unhelpful. We need techniques that are both powerful and easy for secular or otherwise non-woo people to digest and understand the logic of. Looking forward to reading it.

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        4. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh Apr 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          I can send you the two chapters in question if you like. I could use a check from someone with some realization/practice.

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
          Replying to @iwelsh

          Would be happy to.

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