“The body is all that matters. The gain in relaxation from the purification of the body is the fruit of the Path.”
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actually i kinda think the body happens to be a site where a lot of stuff needs to happen for a lot of people but there oughta be a time and a place for going back to the mind. cleaning up ideas, concepts, stories, beliefs, myths
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this could be after months or years on mostly just body but i kinda think you can intersperse them, they’re just not that separate after all anyway. has a quote about this somewhere, about how practice should be compatible with becoming a world-class scientist
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“you can intersperse them, they’re just not that separate after all anyway” oh certainly!
i’m starting to view thought structures as “energy-holders”. feels like every thought carries a particular, repeatable energy pattern. but even that pattern is constantly being—
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slightly (or significantly) modified by new experiences. just not necessarily in the ways we’d like them to hahah. until some form of awareness enters the picture it seems (and not even necessarily like, a pure or spacious awareness but even in the traditional talk-therapy way,
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i feel like the energy of thought forms can be tapped into albeit with less clarity).
at that point is when things can start to shift, and how we know they’re shifting is that the feeling-tone aka energy that was attached to that particular thought form, has changed. right? 😋
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