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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Replying to @ur_immeasurable
the experience of chaos is necessarily suffering?
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Replying to @chagmed
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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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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Replying to @ur_immeasurable @chagmed
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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My original responses to this question weren’t worth the time they were written in. I’m sorry but I’m just not going to go there. It’s better to leave it ambiguous rather than give a shallow answer to you. I’m too busy to go deep, and respectful enough to not engage lightly.
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Replying to @misen__
Brits have a history of fucking things up, then walking away when they get bored
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Not exactly what I did, but as a historical statement it has a pinch of truth in it.....mainly the first part haha.
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