When you get into the cycles of awakening experiences, it's interesting to see how many myths from the road there arise as actual behaviour.
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In Theravadan Buddhist terms (for which I have mixed feelings), I am probably a once-returner. But my myths are my own.
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I learned to meditate through a mixture of Theravada, Zen, a few forms of Yoga, and a blend of Sami Shamanism & left-hand path magic.
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None of which I take very seriously except on a few key points, but the myths leave a mark on you.
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As old habits are dropping like so many dead insects, new ones spontaneously arise - woven from the raw material of myth & tradition.
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The habits that defined your practice become the habits that define your personality, because your personality is little more than clothing.
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There are bodily features that change far less, but what comes on top of them is arbitrary, fluid, ever-altering fiction.
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You are no more your old habits than you are your new ones. They are a means to an end, and the means and the end alike are malleable.