16/ We create and recreate a self in each moment. The illusion of permanence owes to 1) identification with thought 2) recycled thoughts.
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17/ Those thoughts we recycle the most we identify with the most. Those are what we come to call "I", but it's not fixed, it's a loop.
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18/ Going back to the doors example. When you break this cycle you essentially free inputs for your mind to witness itself in the present.
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19/ You free up the inputs from the pattern of recycling past into present, and projecting it into the future. You stop creating a 'self'.
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20/ You start feeling a space, and in that space you feel yourself being, without any need to define your being with thought. You simply are
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21/ That is why all meditation practices insist on letting go of thoughts. They are there, but in the background, no input, no influence.
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22/ There are endless methods of meditation but they all essentially aim to disrupt this conditioned mind that feeds back on itself.
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23/ Some break the mind through the mind others go through the body, but the essence is to get you out of your mind and back to your senses.
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24/ In that space you realize you always were this and never anything else. You were just hallucinating. Once you see it you'll laugh at it.
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Re previous tweet in chain, is it really the senses? Sensation, direct perception, is-as-is, but senses? IMO they are a thing to focus on as a bridge from the "loops" to ... is-as-is, an aid to distract the mind, break the loops. A negatively enabling tool.
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I meant 'back to your senses' figuratively, implying the movement from the attachment to the unreal —which the mind perceives as real as it has no other choice— to the real, which perceives but cannot be perceived. It is only the mind that can be an object to itself.
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