Playing with Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

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Students today can't get anywhere; what ails you? Lack of faith in yourself is what ails you. If you lack faith in yourself, you'll keep on tumbling along, dragged this way and that.

— Rinzai

Edited March 5, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Whatever you have about the absolute is not it. Notice how language subtly influences the way you think of it as "something" that is huge, as "lots and lots". It's useful to check yourself on that.

Edited February 25, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Enjoying the Shogun TV show.

Edited February 29, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Jesus wasn't a christian!

[UnbornTao]

Perception is a meaningless phenomenon.

[UnbornTao]

The mind is constantly struggling for certainty and safety.

Edited March 19, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Can your attempts at "resolving" life be effective?

It's like being blind and, wanting to recover your sight, going about changing your surroundings.

In this analogy, what's addressed are superficial manifestations. With this approach, the condition or foundational elements that source our so-called struggle in the first place are left intact.

Feeling inadequate and doubting your "worthiness", you may, for example, set out to become physically strong, gain popularity, or make lots of money in an attempt to pacify your inner insecurity and compensate for your feeling of lack, hoping that these accomplishments will resolve you.

I'm not disparaging such efforts but rather directing us to investigating the motives behind them. I'm not saying to doubt and to use that doubt to undermine your doing things. Essentially what I'm saying is: do what you want, and also be clear on why you pursue it.

How can we approach real change and transformation?

What's my approach to life? Is it to avoid loss? What challenges do I continuously come across? How do I deal with situations, challenges, events?

What is the root cause of X or Y? How does the condition exist? Where does it start and end? What is it made out of?

This moves us towards a freeing direction.

Edited May 15, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

 

Loved Dune 2. Have to purchase the books.

[UnbornTao]

AI-generated.

Edited March 19, 2024 by UnbornTao

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[UnbornTao]

I made a lentil stew not so long ago:

 

Ingredients:

• 1 can of cooked lentils
• 1 can of mixed vegetables: Carrots, Potatoes, Green beans, Peas
• 2 tablespoons of a homemade red chili pepper sauce with olive oil (spicy!)
• 1/2 glass tomato sauce
• Minced basil
• Rosemary or cumin
• Hot paprika
• Pepper mix
• 1/3 Red onion
• 2-3 garlic cloves
• Salt
• Water

Took about 10 minutes or so.

Pretty good imo, and spicy. Perhaps less vegetables next time – add just half of the vegetable mix. Personal preference.

Edited July 19, 2024 by UnbornTao

[Nemra]

@UnbornTao Sorry for writing here.

I can almost taste and smell it, as if I were eating it. 🤤 One of my top favorite dishes.

[UnbornTao]

Just arrived!

The Spanish edition wasn't very accessible to find nor reasonably-priced on second-hand digital markets, but here it is brand-new finally.

Edited March 30, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

On 3/19/2024 at 8:30 PM, Understander said:

@UnbornTao Sorry for writing here.

I can almost taste and smell it, as if I were eating it. 🤤 One of my top favorite dishes.

Thank you! Definitely one of my favs, too.

Edited March 21, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

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"When no discrimination is made between the self and the not-self, you open the gate to the highest wisdom."

– Hakim Sanai

Edited May 26, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Remain presently vulnerable in a wide-open state; this is powerful and authentic as opposed to clinging to old presumptions and jumping to conclusions!

Edited March 28, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

A sense of emptiness accompanies the lack of authentic self-expression.

[UnbornTao]

What do you want to be up to before you die?

[UnbornTao]

For happiness in life, basically what's needed is enjoying one's experience, no matter what it is, and setting goals for yourself to move toward to everyday. This creates a sense of hope and meaning.

Edited May 15, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Our assumptions set the parameters for our ways of thinking about, and interpreting, 'reality'.

Edited May 15, 2024 by UnbornTao