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Bodhipaksa

A survey for people who #meditate Please boost for a bigger sample!

How regular is your #meditation practice compared to how regular you would like it to be?

I just realized the second and third options say the same thing. Doesn't matter. Pick which one you want.

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bodhidave

This evening's #contemplative rumination:

I sometimes #meditate in my sleep. And that helps me realize that my waking thinking "ego" self isn't the starting point — like sleep, it comes from somewhere; it's generated; it's an expression.

And that further helps me in allowing a kind of balance between the need to dis-identify with and let go of the ego, on one had, and allowing a kind of embrace with its occurrence, one another.

Our waking, thinking, egoic self is a sample of the living truth.

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heathen skates

Ok so I meditated for the first time this morning (outside of, say, the end of a yoga class twenty years ago) and I want to make this a more regular practice. If you know of any free resources for beginner guided meditation, lay them on me!

I did a Pema Chödrön one I found on YouTube. The audio had a weird buzzing at times but I tried to work through it and stay with my breath!

#meditation#meditate
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bodhidave

In a reply to a reply to a post I made last night in which I'd noted, "it's increasingly my sense that in the end #awakening is something that's mechanical and matter-of-fact"—

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I'm of course going to study and #meditate some more :) ...

but for me there's currently a growing sense that awakening has to do with a so-simple-it's-hard-to-find-the-words-for deeply basic appreciation of *how experiencing works.*

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bodhidave

I have two fav. authors—the anonymous 14th c. Christian author of *The Cloud of #Unknowing* and the 13th c. Japanese #Zen teacher Dōgen.

On opposite sides of the world and members of very different religious communities, they wrote deeply similar instructions for how to #meditate. And over time they each made revisions in their instructions—and they made the same revisions.

They were doing the same thing and making the same realizations.

Together they have helped me as a meditator. A lot.

post by Q. ( @imtheq@realsocial.life) asking "Who is your favorite author of all time? And why?
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bodhidave

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And it reminded me — I sometimes #meditate in dreamless sleep. No doubt about it. And that experience tells me that something that is "transcendent" to my waking and dreaming and dreamless sleep "self" knows how to do things.

Some "transcendent" aspect of ourselves knows how to do our dreamless sleep and how to do our dreaming and how to do our waking, thinking self.

(And there are ways we can have "faith" in that.)

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bodhidave

It's a bit of an extended association on my part, but I'm reminded by Lannan's post that I sometimes #meditate in dreamless sleep — no doubt about it.

Some "animate" part of me knows how to do that.

And now that's got me thinking about how defining and identifying myself in terms of my waking thoughts is a kind of "anthropomorphization."

🙂 🙏

h/t @lannan

screenshot of a Mastodon post by Lannan that says: I think one of the biggest misconceptions about animism is that it anthropomorphosizes everything - it doesn't. It seeks to engage the interiority of other animate and inanimate beings on *their* terms, ultimately decentering the human experience.
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