Awareness is not a binary capability, it exists in gradients. Your level of awareness depends on your capacity to sustain presence and openness amid chaos without shutting down, over indulging in thought or going numb and checking out. Experience chaos = Experience sufferinghttps://twitter.com/pat_stedman/status/944228333159579648 …
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the experience of chaos is necessarily suffering?
I believe that is JBP’s formulation. But his worldview is intensely worldly, and his views of ‘suffering’ and ‘chaos’ do not map neatly onto Buddhist formulations of dukkha. Chaos is emptiness, Order is form, Form is emptiness, Emptiness is form. Either way, I’m not sold on JP
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Ya you're right, there's no neat correlations, I'm interested in experimenting with and integrating JBP's formulations with my own experience and study.
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Good luck with the experiments and integration. Won’t be easy, but I hope it is worth it for you & your clients.
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What about what he says do you disagree with exactly? As far as I can tell, his main shortcomings are his tendency to over-explain and to politicize. In general, I'm pretty impressed by his teaching, and find it well aligned with the dharma as I've studied and practiced it.
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That’s a big question - let me get back to you on it. I’m going to have a beer and some ribs.
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