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  • When plagued with shenpa, that is, deep emotional feelings of desire or aversion, "open yourself fully to the sensation, free of interpretation". – Living Beautifully

Living Beautifully

08 Mar 2025 - 27 Oct 2025
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    • Clinging to fixed ideas of ourself – that's ego.
      • So, the goal is not to not have a self, it's to have an adaptable, flexible self.
        • That's my own language and perhaps not an accurate reflection, I've only read a couple of pages!
      • ego-clinging is more insidious than, I don't know, clinging to money or status. Harder to see.
        • possibly inescapable?
      • Buddhism is really just weaponized Panta Rhei
        • As is Bergsonism I suddenly realize
    • When things fall apart in your life, what is really falling apart is your fixed ideas about yourself, and that is a cause for celebration.
      • paraphrase p7
    • "the fundamental groundlessness of being human"
      • Yeah OK. But what if that is not the case? That there is a ground?
    • When plagued with shenpa, that is, deep emotional feelings of desire or aversion, "open yourself fully to the sensation, free of interpretation".
      • I want to say this is not possible, but then I say, the very act of trying makes itself real somehow. Hm. Trying to say something very simple, no magic or pompous reality-shaping abilities required.