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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

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      Meaning that the "I'm so small compared to all of Creation" feeling doesn't last! It's novelty wears off and you need to seek the next tidbit of knowledge that "expands" your worldview and recreates awe.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416 …

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      An addiction to knowledge develops when the child is first made to feel that “my feelings don’t matter.” The coping mechanism becomes a variation on “I will make my thoughts Important.”
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

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      What this points at is that it's not lack of understanding that is the problem but an uncontrollable mind that is feeding all experiences into the Analytical Grinder and the Abstraction Incinerator.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1335696140168122369 …

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      "Ok ok i'm sorry i'll try. Mmm yea... Schopenhaur... Nietzsche .... yeah... feels good... come one baby...supervised clustering of macro economic trends..."
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      The sky is vast, the galaxies are vast, the universe is vast. But these are all foreground within background of awareness. The background space is wider than any thought that arises within. Even if that thought is of God, the universe, a pipe, or a finger pointing to the moon.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      Take this trick in the first chapter of the book 'Impro': The author asks you to point at a few objects and say what they "aren't". This halts the "naming" mechanism in the mind and makes the world look "fresher".

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      But also notice that when you point at a cup and say "book", "book" didn't come from anywhere you could control. Notice that thoughts are the same.

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      Sure you can trace down the origin of a thought (e.g. you were holding a book) but then you have to trace down the thought doing the tracing. Where did *that* come from?

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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      It's like trying to clear muddy water by beating it with a stick. To TRULY track down anything to THE Origin means to track down something to the Beginning of Creation. It means to attempt to find God.

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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      A spiritual path that walks backwards opens doors to more doors to more doors. It never ends. It's as futile as truly figuring out who you are, reversing entropy, or figuring out just why you said "book".

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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

      This can be tempting. That's because the doors in the direction of past are *unlocked* while the door to the (desired) future is often barred by the monster of Fear.

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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

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      Fear is always THE single next door, even if it's a multi-tentacled monster that blocks many doors. (This fear analogy explains why opening this "One" door of dealing with fear leads to the "Many" doors of Freedom.)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1328968602784047109 …

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      "It’s all about unlocking the next door,” I continue, “and having ten thousand keys doesn’t mean a thing if none of them opens the door you’re standing in front of."
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

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      To fight fear is to fight the hydra. The more you poke at it, the more powerful it becomes. The only way past it is to see what it truly is. It is an alarm system, a protector. Dumb as a dog, but in service to YOU.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342200683374604288?s=20 …

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      Thus "that shadowy place" of fear is no longer an actual place but a *border*. It is the border between life and death. Death cannot actually enter consciousness because that's not possible by definition. You cannot be conscious of non-consciousness.
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

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          This means that Fear is the border between your life and your death. It is rightfully impenetrable. The only way to push it back is to understand it. Understand WHY the safety measures are there. Understand WHY the dog is barking.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342201239564550144?s=20 …

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          That border then becomes a friend because knowledge of that border is knowledge of your "edge" and means you are pushing yourself, gaining more knowledge to push back death further. (e.g. getting better at skiing to do more dangerous runs)
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

          The greater your understanding, the more difficult and dangerous things you can do. You push back fear by befriending it, by having it show you where you need to improve.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

          Instead of memorizing a bunch of useless information (the trap of philosophy) you instead just do what you need to do. Take just that One More Step into fear. Not to punch it, but to hug it. (but also, don't just go up and hug starving rabies stray doggo)

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

          E.g. an easy way to reproduce this dealing with fear is with exercise. Work to your and just do One More. Don't aim for a target, fail, and then beat yourself up. Truly sense your limit and just squeeze one one more. Not ten, just one. Like a kind teacher pushing you.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

          Incidentally, the target method or "planning" works by creating a False God. You push yourself to fulfill the requirements of the plan and lose touch with your inner sense of limit.

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 26 Dec 2020

          Whether or not you push yourself correctly is subject not to your inner attunement to your limits or to your fear but to how well past you was at predicting and controlling the future! "The healed mind does not plan."https://youtu.be/_qIGyry7wLo?t=1003 …

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