Reading article on Spacious Freedom. https://vividness.live/2012/06/21/spacious-freedom/ …
I've been thinking a lot about emotions lately from going to @DougTataryn's Bio-Emotive workshop. Lots of profound resonance there with Aro/Dzogchen:
> Self-liberation means allowing emotional energy to be as it is.
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Reading this
& wondering if more accurate than "stripped of meaning" would be "stripped of implication". Wanting to ask @Meaningness about this because language here seems important and allowing the meaningness of emotion seems
as long as it doesn't say "therefore!"pic.twitter.com/BgKymCMZF6
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
Think you are probably right but I’m drunk so I might change my mind in the morning. Will let you know if so!
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
Thank you very much for pointing this out! I think you were completely correct; the original deviated slightly into nihilism. I’ve revised accordingly.pic.twitter.com/BqEBdoh8id
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
It’s a bit weird rereading this seven years after I wrote it. I’ve changed enough that it seems just slightly off. I don’t disagree with any of it specifically, though, and I think it’s true to the view it presents.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
(By “this” I mean the post overall.)
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I was enjoying last night & still enjoying how in a thread where I link to a page that says "It can be confusing that one Buddhist teacher says ‘you must drink alcohol’ & another says ‘you must not drink alcohol’." I got this initial response: > ...probably right but I’m drunk...
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
And as it happens I had gotten drunk with a FAMOUS MEDITATION TEACHER so the synchronicities were piled up in heaps
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Is this Trungpa? I remember reading you hung out in shambhala for a while...
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Replying to @AtaraxJim @Malcolm_Ocean
This was yesterday, so no. (He died in 1988 or so)
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Although... he was often mentioned on this occasion, so plausibly he was present in spirit. 90-proof spirit I should think
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