so, in my case, there's a core of peace & acceptance of this mortal coil that remains untouched. but the monkey's chatter is a cacacophony of ever darker distraction.
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By "core", I guess you aren't referring to any sort of thought content per se?
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So would you say the chatter originates in a part of you that is not at peace with your inevitable death?
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"awareness" of suffering and its causes does not remove one from it or its effects. this is the conundrum at the crossroads one reaches on the path.
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Don't think you are talking about the same thing!
I believe Gregory is talking about a quality of awareness, cultivated e.g. with mahamudra, which is indeed free from suffering. You can fit the smaller awareness into it, too.
My understanding here is incomplete, though. On/off.
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I'm in a very annoying state - hopefully a transition! - where I am sort of there most of the time, but some things aren't integrated.
Said things are mostly also extremely bothersome personal problems (and whatever is keeping those fuelled), so it's sort of hellish/heavenly.
Mostly have no mental chatter at all, just a few problem-solving thoughts and deliberately enticed thoughts.
But all the chatter that *is* there? It's really, really bad.
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mine's mostly electronically (online) induced. other than that? pretty quiet in here.
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