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imagine as strongly and as vividly that you can that there is a very loud, very colorful chorus of utterly fabulous, silly, adorable, over-the-top cheerleaders celebrating your guilty resentful yuck.
better if you also join in and start jumping up and down
When you perceive life as a comedy, you receive rich infusions of energy that give you the strength to move mountains.
Pain becomes suffering when we take it personally, as if it reflects something uniquely meaningful
about us.
practice experiencing the pain impersonally.
Tonglen meditation.
practice of taking in the pain of other people and sending out happiness, good fortune, and good wishes.
tantric
all about the transformation...
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Tonglen transforms the energy of pain and suffering into the energy of compassion, togetherness, and love.
Tonglen Meditation
Tonglen Meditation
For a single session of Tonglen, aim to do ten taking-and-sending breaths,
ample time between taking-and-sending breaths to breathe normally
the more you are healed, the more healing you will notice in other people around you. Only healing can recognize healing—as within, so without.
When pain and suffering are thought of as universal, and not personal, they can no longer prove that you are uniquely deserving of them.
The word “individuate” comes from a Latin term which means “impossible to divide” (“in” = “not” and “dividuate” = divided; thus—“individuated” means “unable to be divided”). In other words, to individuate means to become whole. Whole with what? Whole with everything.
Individuate
Compassion is a condition of letting yourself joyfully, vulnerably, sensationally feel “all the things” of life with the knowing that everything you feel, you feel with.
“humiliation”
Humiliation
To be brought down to earth feels embarrassing because it means our high-flying fantasies of alienation have been punctured.
The offense I took at his sassy tone was a reaction formation,
shallow show of protest to keep my deep unconscious joy and desire for rejection disguised
when humans are turned on by something that their conscious mind doesn't deem acceptable,
block that turn-on from their own awareness by automatically covering it up with a display of offense and disgust.
that other person whom you are in a relationship with is a fractal holograph of you, one whom you can only ever experience through your own subjective awareness.
There is no way that you can ever “objectively” experience another person.
can have perceptions of your partner and then inquire of your friends and family about their ...
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all other people, including your friends and family, are only ever experienced in your own subjective awareness,
your awareness has a filter that is heavily colored by your deepest unconscious beliefs and desires.
“p...
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exist outside your subjective awareness by referring to photographs and videos and stories a...
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every shred of this proof can only ever be experienced in your own ...
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all other people are our mirrors.
It's a cliche because it's an uncomfortable, inescapable fact.
humans are microcosms of the macrocosm, which means we each contain everything,...
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Consider this:
quality
Predictive processing
The unconscious creative power of our perception and belief generates a seamless feedback loop that appears to be “objective reality” when actually it's an appearance called forth by our level of consciousness.
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In doing this kind of examination of how the other people in our lives reflect qualities in our own selves, we thereby take the unconscious creative power of our perception and belief, and begin to make it conscious.
we might see our partners or potential partners as depriving us of some fulfillment that we want,
truth is that we're the only ones with any agency whatsoever over the generative perception of our own awareness.
The most efficient way to adjust your perception is to make your previously unconscious process of perception conscious,
manner that celebrates the fulfillment already present,
implanting an attitude of celebration and fulfillment int...
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as long as the hungry ghost believes that only the deprivation he already perceives is real, he will continue to perceive only deprivation.
as long as you believe that only the deprivation of rich fulfillment that you perceive in your love life is real, you will continue to perceive only deprivation.
Magic involves communicating with and integrating hidden truths of the unconscious in order to dissolve old ways of being and open up new possibilities,
Consider for a moment that the whole of the physical world and of your body within it is itself a dimension of the unconscious.
discovering the whole of the world as your extended body, and of your soul as the soul of the world,
