The idea of my whole philosophy is to get away from authority (/force) deciding between ideas. Rather, using merit instead. This includes ideas within one person, and subconscious/inexplicit/emotional ideas. So there's a question: Does crying = badfeels = stuckness = coercion?
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"feeling bad is bad" can create this loop where you feel bad for feeling bad, and the result is a sort of rigor mortis, emotional constipation, muscular tension that chokes and stifles your whole being crying releases the tension and lets you be freehttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1204445182051045376 …
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Why crying, instead of something like meditation where you stop judging your feelings (or yourself for having feelings)? Oh, crucially and not said explicitly above: When I say "bad feelings are bad", I mean *the state of reality that is perpetuating them is bad*.
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So, when I looked at "The Mind Illuminated" it seemed like once you got past the initial intro to meditation (which is common to many traditions) it was detailed instructions for how to dissociate. (I think
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Yes, and no. There’s something to the “purifications.“ And, that’s why I think that people must think something like, “Oh, this is good, if I just keep doing this...” but, yeah, dissociation is also happening, for the average instruction follower (and for Culadasa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
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What do you think the purifications really are?
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I'll understand it best in terms of what it does to one's sensorimotor info-flow mapping
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They are “local” (systematically-speaking) changes to sensorimotor info-flow mapping that the system, as it’s happening, “deems” high-value (teleologically and anthropomorphically speaking). Bc of “mind software” idiosyncrasy, hard to be more specific. But—
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The reason they’re a conceptual category is that e.g. Culadasa’s system can reliably deliver them. Mechanism is another discussion. But in any case, It’s a sort of greedy algorithm that is potentially disastrous without course correction. But—
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Also, there’s something that that feels like and abstracts across a bunch of different things. Feels good. Feels like progress. Sometimes is.
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Perhaps purification is a somatic discharge of affect when other channels of affective expression (i.e., motoric, symbolic) have been restricted.
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That would perhaps speak to it’s partiality/inadequacy. I do think that if the bodymind system is jammed it will seek improvement through narrow bottlenecks, which can be problematic for future progress. &, the pur. framework/mechanism could be such a problematic release valve.
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