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Michael W. Taft
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Michael W. Taft

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🦇 Sentient comet 💫 Meditation freak 🙏🏻 Teacher 🍄 Author 🎙Podcaster 📚 SF nerd 🤖 Serial comma enthusiast 🌏 Raised by wolves 🐺 Bad influence 🧝🏻‍♂️

Oakland, CA
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    1. Jody ⚡️‏ @Kalieezchild May 30

      Jody ⚡️ Retweeted Michael W. Taft

      If your meditation is not about making your attentional function stronger, it’s not meditation.https://twitter.com/OortCloudAtlas/status/1001517657152110594 …

      Jody ⚡️ added,

      Michael W. Taft @OortCloudAtlas
      Almost all the pathology, dismay, and/or wasted time in meditation is not due to the techniques, but the silly, broken stories we tell ourselves and each other about what meditation actually is.
      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas May 30
      Replying to @Kalieezchild

      Attention by itself is not enough, Jody.

      12:01 PM - 30 May 2018
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        2. Jody ⚡️‏ @Kalieezchild May 30
          Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

          The rest will follow from the improvement of attention.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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        4. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas May 30
          Replying to @chakathemighty @Kalieezchild

          Well, Donnie, sila is an interesting point, but I'm more pointing to: 1. Awakening is possible w/o cultivating attention, such as various advaita traditions 2. Attention alone may miss the point entirely 3. Attention w/o equanimity is a recipe for overwhelm

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        5. Jody ⚡️‏ @Kalieezchild May 30
          Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @chakathemighty

          The Vedanta traditions are cultivating attention. It is an attentional act to ‘neti-neti’ something.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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        7. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas May 31
          Replying to @chakathemighty @Kalieezchild

          Yes. Becoming a mathematician is nothing more than paying attention to numbers. Learning to dance is nothing more than just paying attention to movement. Nothing more than attention. Right? 😀😜

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Jody ⚡️‏ @Kalieezchild May 31
          Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @chakathemighty

          I want to say that paying attention to a mental object is a different exercise with different effects than paying attention to movement or numbers, but I’m winging it a bit to say so.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        9. Jason Snyder‏ @cognazor May 31
          Replying to @Kalieezchild @OortCloudAtlas @chakathemighty

          So maybe the relevant discussion is not paying attention or not, but the many different variants and scales of attention...

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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