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(Side note: why we’re so serious isn’t a huge mystery according to Seligman and pals, who suggest it is a symptom of a cultural drive for ‘sincere’ meaning, authenticity, coherent order, purity.)

Theres a lot of fun and enjoyment involved in learning to handle our confused emotions, to look into this mind. We could delight in seeing our hatred as it arises.

A teacher of mine said this once, and it has stuck with me: “It’s all part of the game; the feeling of satisfaction, rightness that goes along with being able to do this is the aesthetic side. That’s the beauty of it! Mind is utterly beautiful, sensitive, responsive, vivid!”

Some of the tantras talk about the spaciousness, clarity, and compassionate responsiveness of awareness. In this way of understanding, awareness is not just a monolithic, space in the background; they built into the model the dynamic capacity for manifestation, expressive power.

That comes from a particular context of practice, but in a general way it opens up the possibility that we might be able to enjoy this vivid mind, even in the midst of incoherence, confusion, chaos.

When I’ve finished re-reading Grimes and some of Seligman et al’s stuff, I intend to revisit Dewey (HT @context_ing) So get ready for galaxy brain meditation aesthetic threads. Sorry not sorry.