#contemplative — Public Fediverse posts
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Outside the Default Path: A Pagan Reading of the Federal “Anti-Christian Bias” Report
A reflective Pagan perspective on the federal government’s anti-Christian bias report, exploring how religious freedom can feel very different for Americans outside the cultural mainstream. Through personal experience, civic observation, and reflections on pluralism, this essay examines the difference between protecting faith and centering one faith above others. -
Parallel Paths #bluehour #twilight #sunsetphotography #nightfall #atmospheric #moody_tones #landscapephotography #contemplative #serene #countryside #rural_life #landscape #wayhome #journey #roadtrip #blossomingtree #blossom #cherryblossom #treesilhouette #windingroad #windfarm #turbines #renewableenergy #pavedpath #cobblestone #leadinglines #depthofview #naturallight #stillness
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Parallel Paths #bluehour #twilight #sunsetphotography #nightfall #atmospheric #moody_tones #landscapephotography #contemplative #serene #countryside #rural_life #landscape #wayhome #journey #roadtrip #blossomingtree #blossom #cherryblossom #treesilhouette #windingroad #windfarm #turbines #renewableenergy #pavedpath #cobblestone #leadinglines #depthofview #naturallight #stillness
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Parallel Paths #bluehour #twilight #sunsetphotography #nightfall #atmospheric #moody_tones #landscapephotography #contemplative #serene #countryside #rural_life #landscape #wayhome #journey #roadtrip #blossomingtree #blossom #cherryblossom #treesilhouette #windingroad #windfarm #turbines #renewableenergy #pavedpath #cobblestone #leadinglines #depthofview #naturallight #stillness
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Parallel Paths #bluehour #twilight #sunsetphotography #nightfall #atmospheric #moody_tones #landscapephotography #contemplative #serene #countryside #rural_life #landscape #wayhome #journey #roadtrip #blossomingtree #blossom #cherryblossom #treesilhouette #windingroad #windfarm #turbines #renewableenergy #pavedpath #cobblestone #leadinglines #depthofview #naturallight #stillness
Daily diary on Mastodon
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Parallel Paths #bluehour #twilight #sunsetphotography #nightfall #atmospheric #moody_tones #landscapephotography #contemplative #serene #countryside #rural_life #landscape #wayhome #journey #roadtrip #blossomingtree #blossom #cherryblossom #treesilhouette #windingroad #windfarm #turbines #renewableenergy #pavedpath #cobblestone #leadinglines #depthofview #naturallight #stillness
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I went to Rishikesh to learn yoga. I found my grandmother instead.
Sitting by the Ganges at dawn, I recognised something from a terrace in Granada.
Have you found what you were looking for?
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#rishikesh #yoga #culturalwisdom
#india #ganges #ancestralwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
#grounded #yogalife #innerwisdom -
I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
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The Hangover, for #fensterFreitag and #monochromeMarch (taken 2026-03-04)
Zine permission granted
#AltText #amateurPhotography #blackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography #blancoYNegro #bnw #candid #candidPhotography #contemplative #fleece #iPhone12Pro #melancholic #myPhoto #myWork #NoAI #No2AI #noirEtBlanc #OC #passenger #photography #reflection #schwarzWeiß #train #travelPhotography #UK #window #흑백사진 @photography -
Se serrer la main, et savourer les bourgeons qui sortent au premier rayon de soleil. La chaleur pique la peau et le temps n'existe plus. Je suis juste là.
#contemplatif #photo #photography #water #eau #balade #foret #forest #nature #arbres #trees #branches #contemplative #spring #sunny #forestwalk #naturephotography
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#Buddhist teachings identify #craving as the root of #suffering. A diagnosis strikingly validated by modern #neuroscience. The brain's #RewardSystem, driven by #dopamine, creates "wanting" distinct from "liking", trapping individuals in cycles of unfulfilled desire. #Mindfulness practices demonstrably modulate these neural circuits, offering empirical support for ancient #contemplative methods aimed at liberation from compulsive craving.
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#Buddhist teachings identify #craving as the root of #suffering. A diagnosis strikingly validated by modern #neuroscience. The brain's #RewardSystem, driven by #dopamine, creates "wanting" distinct from "liking", trapping individuals in cycles of unfulfilled desire. #Mindfulness practices demonstrably modulate these neural circuits, offering empirical support for ancient #contemplative methods aimed at liberation from compulsive craving.
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The #DefaultModeNetwork constructs our sense of continuous self through autobiographical narrative and self-referential processing. #Buddhist #meditation practices reduce #DMN activity, correlating with experiences of #anattā (#NonSelf). This convergence between #contemplative insight and #neuroscience reveals the constructed, dynamic nature of ego. Here's a brief overview:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-default_mode_network/
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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Gaspar Claus – Un Monde Violent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
#Cello #Experimental #accoustic #bittersweet #brotherhood #calm #contemplative #emotional #escape #improvisation #instrospective #reflection #sentimental #Paris
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
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Written by Google Gemini
Happy Friday! Today's "Friday Deep Dive" playlist is a truly fascinating one. The list kicks off with a deep dive into Ben Folds' solo album, Rockin' The Suburbs, before moving into a mix that connects his music to other genres.
#FridayDeepDive #BenFolds #RockinTheSuburbs #MusicDiscovery #Playlist #Melancholy #Introspective #Contemplative https://tidal.com/playlist/f7ea1dbe-39e3-442e-88ea-c2813f54a36d
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Choosing Your Own Mantra (Prayer Word, Sacred Name) According to the Cloud of Unknowing: https://sant-mat.medium.com/choosing-your-own-mantra-prayer-word-sacred-name-according-to-the-cloud-of-unknowing-f0957d378826
#gnostic #gnosticism #mystic #mystics #mysticism #christianmystics #christianmysticism #meditation #spirituality #contemplative #spiritualpractice
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"Bad Choices Precede Foul Moods" • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”
#mastoart #fediart #fineart #artist #artwork #art #artistsonmastodon #originalart #quirkyart #sorry #regretful #foreboding #poignant #disquieting #brooding #introspective #contemplative #melancholy #pensive #angry #anger #noai
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"Bad Choices Precede Foul Moods" • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”
#mastoart #fediart #fineart #artist #artwork #art #artistsonmastodon #originalart #quirkyart #sorry #regretful #foreboding #poignant #disquieting #brooding #introspective #contemplative #melancholy #pensive #angry #anger #noai
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"Bad Choices Precede Foul Moods" • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”
#mastoart #fediart #fineart #artist #artwork #art #artistsonmastodon #originalart #quirkyart #sorry #regretful #foreboding #poignant #disquieting #brooding #introspective #contemplative #melancholy #pensive #angry #anger #noai
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New this week
#music #dutch #psychedelia #aliens #melodictechno #ballads #improv #newage #modularsynth #storytelling #folkrock #garagerock #technohouse #contemplative #contemporary #postrock #energetic #political #dungeonsynth #eurorack
https://www.getmusic.fm/weekly/2025/05/13?utm_campaign=new&utm_source=mastodon
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Skyshard Studios – Fading Time
#Acoustic #confident #contemplative #determined #inspirational #motivational #nocopyrightmusic #optimistic #peaceful #piano #royaltyfree #searching #stockmusic #CostaRica
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
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1\🧵 Sangha in the Streets (SITS!) began in Fall 2011 as the #contemplative wing of Occupy Wall Street, also known as "Occupy the Present Moment." A resource for those seeking to connect meditation practice with collective liberation. #SanghaInTheStreets #SITS #OccupyWallStreet #Occupy
#Dharma #Buddhism #BelovedCommunity #Interbeing #Mindfulness #Meditation #EngagedBuddhism #RecoveryDharma @thichnhathanh @dharma @belovedcommunity @engagedbuddhism @recoverydharma
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Trees
Sometimes I feel that Western philosophy, especially since the Enlightenment, has too often come to resemble the conifer plantations common to commercial forestry: useful, yes, and in their way productive, but almost barren, sterile. On the other hand, the philosophies surrounding Taoism – including Chan Buddhism and its Japanese descendant Zen – seem more like old growth forests, rich in natural diversity, fluid, resilient, fertile.
Of course it would be easy to romanticise such a distinction, as often seemed to happen during the early days of Zen’s growth in the West, and its influence on the Beat movement – Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums being the obvious example. But the partitioning of Western academic philosophy into e.g. metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and so on contrasts powerfully with more organic, experiential approaches.
I am no philosopher, needless to say, so in a sense I shouldn’t say such things; but I am someone most of whose intentional (c.f. Daniel Dennett’s idea of the intentional stance!) life has been given to a sort or sorts of contemplative practice, and so in a sense to the attempt at living out of some kind of philosophy or another. Over the years it has become clearer to me that “the Tao as an ontological ground… the One, which is natural, spontaneous, eternal, nameless, and indescribable… at once the beginning of all things and the way in which all things pursue their course” (Wikipedia) is just the simplest, least superstitious way to understand what is to be found in just sitting, apophatic meditation, or what you will. (The Sōtō Zen expression shikantaza, untranslatable as it is, is probably the closest I can get!)
So, sitting still, we can see that the self is not a thing but a pattern, not an object but a movement among the leaves, not other than the way things come and go. Just as sitting still is an entirely pointless thing to do, so too the Tao has no purpose. You couldn’t use it for anything, and yet it is before all that is, and holds the source of the farthest stars. Empty, all it is is inexhaustible.
#contemplative #DanielDennett #JackKerouac #philosophy #practice #shikantaza #Tao
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Atheism and metaphysics
Metaphysics can seem to be a rather slippery term. On the one hand it can be taken to be “the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind” (Wikipedia) but on the other, being the study of, in one sense, how things come to be, it is too easily conflated with religious creation myths, or with cosmologies intricately involved with religious doctrines of causality and phenomenology.
But “according to modern scientific knowledge, mental events and processes presuppose the existence and reality of material things. Thinking, for example, implies the existence of a bird or a mammal with a brain. Or a momentary event, such as the proverbial cat sitting on the mat, presupposes the real existence of the cat, the mat, the earth under the mat, as well as a real human observer of the event.” (Morris)
But for me, that which is intended by using the term “ground of being” (Tillich) is precisely that which can be known directly as “no-thing” in contemplation. I am not talking here of an idea, a common factor in a Huxley-like perennial philosophy, but of a repeated and very direct experience of what Quakers have referred to as “the light”, as described for instance by Emilia Fogelklou (she writes in the third person): “Without visions or the sound of speech or human mediation, in exceptionally wide-awake consciousness, she experienced the great releasing inward wonder. It was as if the ’empty shell’ burst. All the weight and agony, all the feeling of unreality dropped away. She perceived living goodness, joy, light like a clear, irradiating, uplifting, enfolding, unequivocal reality from deep inside.”
This kind of experience can of course not be described terribly clearly, nor can it be communicated directly, and any attempt is likely to fall into superlatives such as Fogelklou’s. But the experience is as real and direct as any sensory experience, perhaps more so, and it has a curious undeniable quality, a great lifting and healing of the heart. I use Tillich’s term for it not because I have any particular attraction for that as an idea, but because it seems to get closer than anything else I have read to the encounter itself. There is a visual analogue that sometimes occurs in meditation – and which can lead to the experience I am trying to describe – of the visual field itself, seen through closed eyes, extending suddenly through and beneath what ought to have been the observing mind, but which is no longer there.
Now, I have long enough experience in contemplative practice to know that experiences are not things to hang onto, still less to seek after, and I would not be happy if any words of mine sent anyone on a quest for experiential chimeras. Yet the experience itself, with all its indelible affect, has occurred so often over the years, since childhood, that I find myself referring to it over and over again, and it remains for me a kind of lodestone.
Are these metaphysical experiences, insights? Are they therefore somehow at variance with the fundamental insight of atheism that the idea of another, supernatural, layer to existence, within which the human self can somehow transcend, or survive, the electrochemical apparatus of the central nervous system, is illusory? I don’t think so. Daniel Dennett’s insight into human phenomenology as a “benign user illusion” coincides well with the Buddhist conception of things as empty of intrinsic existence (śūnyatā) – all of which seems to me to be a formal expression of what I have come to experience as “no-thing.” Andreas Müller:
All there is is oneness. The unknown. No-thing appearing as it appears. It is already whole. It is already complete. That which seems to be missing – wholeness – is not lost…
What remains is indescribable. It is indescribable simply because there is no one left who can describe it. There is no one left who experiences oneness (which, by the way, would then not be oneness anymore) and could possibly know how that is. Yes, there is no one left who knows how it is. That is freedom.
#AndreasMüller #atheism #awakening #BrianMorris #consciousness #contemplative #DanielDennett #EmiliaFogelklou #PaulTillich #philosophy #practice #religion #Wikipedia
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Cause and effect
Things have consequences; they are themselves consequences. Sometimes it’s easy to forget this – sometimes things seem merely to be chance, or else they are the result of someone’s action, out of their – or God’s – “sovereign will”. But those ideas are never true. The “chance” occurrence had causes. The cliff fall came about because of heavy rain falling onto fissured and unstable ground – someone was injured because they hadn’t heard the Coastguard warnings, and were walking too close to the base of the cliffs…
Fate? Karma? The will of God? What do these things mean, except attempts to explain to ourselves how things beyond our control could happen to us, or to those we care about? Karma actually seems to me to come closest: the idea that cause and effect are ineluctable – what is sown will be reaped. Karma, though, is usually more naturally understood in its human, ethical dimension:
The Buddha defined karma as intention; whether the intention manifested itself in physical, vocal or mental form, it was the intention alone which had a moral character: good, bad or neutral […] The focus of interest shifted from physical action, involving people and objects in the real world, to psychological process.
Richard Gombrich, Buddhist Precept and Practice.
The Chinese concept of the Tao – “[t]he Tao can be roughly thought of as the ‘flow of the universe’, or as some essence or pattern behind the natural world that keeps the Universe balanced and ordered” (Wikipedia) – seems to me closer to the metaphysical implications. To harmonise one’s will with the Tao, to accept the way things come to be, is to cease to swim against the current, to follow “the watercourse way” (Watts).
The Stoics frequently talked about ‘living in agreement with nature’. This, in part, means that it is within our nature to be social, cooperative beings who want the best for others, and for people around us to thrive. Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, said, ‘All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.’
Bridgid Delaney, Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times.
To live in harmony with nature in this sense requires a willing abdication of knowledge and willfulness. Alan Watts again:
[P]eople try to force issues only when not realizing that it can’t be done—that there is no way of deviating from the watercourse of nature. You may imagine that you are outside, or separate from, the Tao and thus able to follow it or not follow; but this very imagination is itself within the stream, for there is no way other than the Way. Willy-nilly, we are it and go with it. From a strictly logical point of view, this means nothing and gives us no information. Tao is just a name for whatever happens, or, as Lao-tzu put it, “The Tao principle is what happens of itself [tzu-jan].”
This is of course, as I suggested in a recent post here, very close to what has been called, in Christian contexts, “quietism” – which has widely been criticised as heretical, due to its rejection of doctrines around free will and supernatural determinism.
But (and I quoted her in the linked post) Jennifer Kavanagh explains:
Welcoming uncertainty, embracing it, does not mean commending ignorance or trying not to know; it’s not about the rejection of knowledge. It’s not about the negation of the intellect, but its enhancement. It is a recognition that cognitive thinking cannot reach everything, an understanding that the scientific and spiritual approaches are not incompatible, just different, complementary, dimensions. Not either/or but both/and.
The contemplative embracing of this principle is perhaps most clearly seen in the practice of shikantaza, just sitting, watching for the way to open:
Zazen or enlightenment is not about finding a particular state of mind, for all states of mind are fleeting and cannot be relied upon. When you know who is sitting, you know sitting Buddha. This expression is a bit strange; why not say sitting like a Buddha? I prefer to say sitting Buddha because there is nobody sitting like a Buddha; there is just sitting Buddha. That Buddha never stops sitting, but we must awaken to her presence–not that sitting Buddha is either male or female…
A theme I return to again and again is to just do the work that comes to you. Such an attitude is open-ended in the way that life itself is open. If you give yourself to the way, the way appears and that way is always changing.
Daishin Morgan, Sitting Buddha.
#AlanWatts #BridgidDelaney #contemplative #DaishinMorgan #JenniferKavanagh #philosophy #practice #RichardGombrich #stoicism #Tao #unknowing #Wikipedia
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And I think the anonymous 14th c. #contemplative author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* understood our mind's conscious attention works that way. Attention is a kind of "mental light" that extends towards a thought or phenomenal object and illuminates it and touches it and grasps it.
And he recommended that we sometimes practice "letting go" of our grasped thoughts and mental objects.
That is what #unknowing is.
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Atheism and quietism
Quietism is a term with an odd and surprisingly contentious history. It is used of both a tendency in philosophy and a direction within Christian contemplative thought and practice. (You can find well- linked Wikipedia articles on the philosophy here, and the contemplative term here.)
But I believe the insight underlying both these Western traditions of stillness and unknowing can be found far farther back in history.
Chao-Chou [Zhaozhou Congshen] asked, “What is the Tao?”
The master [Nan-ch’üan] replied, “Your ordinary consciousness is the Tao.”
“How can one return into accord with it?”
“By intending to accord you immediately deviate.”
“But without intention, how can one know the Tao?”
“The Tao,” said the master, “belongs neither to knowing nor to not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it’s like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?”
(quoted by Alan Watts in Tao: The Watercourse Way)
In the Zen practice of shikantaza (just sitting) there is nothing to achieve: no particular state of mind, no exercise of concentration, nothing to get rid of. In doing nothing there is perfect freedom.
None of this requires a supernatural dimension at all; that fact seems to have been one of the reasons Christian quietism was condemned as heretical. Unknowing is a fundamental admission, the very underpinning of scepticism. Stevie Wonder wrote: “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer – superstition ain’t the way…” Jennifer Kavanagh:
Welcoming uncertainty, embracing it, does not mean commending ignorance or trying not to know; it’s not about the rejection of knowledge. It’s not about the negation of the intellect, but its enhancement. It is a recognition that cognitive thinking cannot reach everything, an understanding that the scientific and spiritual approaches are not incompatible, just different, complementary, dimensions. Not either/or but both/and.
Unknowing, and the abandonment of the need to know, to possess knowledge, is in a sense the gate to the liminal lands I wrote about in my last post. It is also the starting point of the scientific method, and the heart’s defence against all kinds of creeds.
#AlanWatts #atheism #contemplative #JenniferKavanagh #philosophy #Tao #unknowing #ZhaozhouCongshen
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The First Step on the Spiritual Path is Doing Simran - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @
https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran@ Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran/id1477577384?i=1000647195732@ Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PfUsUBleVPz8290wdqWhq#hesychasm #mantras #practicingthepresenceofGod #practicingthepresence #jesusprayer #bhakti #spiritualawakening #spiritualawakeningradio #spirituality #religion #gnosticism #gnostic #centeringprayer #contemplative #sant_mat #satsang #meditation #applepodcasts #spotifypodcasts
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The First Step on the Spiritual Path is Doing Simran - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @
https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran@ Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran/id1477577384?i=1000647195732@ Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PfUsUBleVPz8290wdqWhq#hesychasm #mantras #practicingthepresenceofGod #practicingthepresence #jesusprayer #bhakti #spiritualawakening #spiritualawakeningradio #spirituality #religion #gnosticism #gnostic #centeringprayer #contemplative #sant_mat #satsang #meditation #applepodcasts #spotifypodcasts
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The First Step on the Spiritual Path is Doing Simran - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @
https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran@ Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran/id1477577384?i=1000647195732@ Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PfUsUBleVPz8290wdqWhq#hesychasm #mantras #practicingthepresenceofGod #practicingthepresence #jesusprayer #bhakti #spiritualawakening #spiritualawakeningradio #spirituality #religion #gnosticism #gnostic #centeringprayer #contemplative #sant_mat #satsang #meditation #applepodcasts #spotifypodcasts
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The First Step on the Spiritual Path is Doing Simran - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @
https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran@ Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-first-step-on-the-spiritual-path-is-doing-simran/id1477577384?i=1000647195732@ Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PfUsUBleVPz8290wdqWhq#hesychasm #mantras #practicingthepresenceofGod #practicingthepresence #jesusprayer #bhakti #spiritualawakening #spiritualawakeningradio #spirituality #religion #gnosticism #gnostic #centeringprayer #contemplative #sant_mat #satsang #meditation #applepodcasts #spotifypodcasts
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Purposefully Purple Prayer from "Meditation Suite 2" by Stan Stewart
https://youtu.be/ihT5US6EID8Music to set a mood for meditation: "Meditation Suite 2". Because many of us benefit from musical accompaniment for our times of prayer and contemplation.
This instrumental is "Purposefully Purple Prayer" composed by Stan Stewart.
#instrumental #musicvideo #indiemusic #prayer #meditation_music #contemplativemusic #contemplationmusic #contemplation #contemplative #meditationmusic #meditativemusic
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Life Goes On - Reflection of Resilience
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/life-goes-on-reflection-of-resilience-olena-art.html
This art image portrays a young girl with flowers in her hair, gazing into a broken mirror.#art #image #younggirl #flowers #hair #brokenmirror #subtlereflection #room #contemplative #introspection #vibrantcolors #mutedtones #visuallystriking @fineartamerica @shoppixels @shoppixelsartists @fineartamericaartists
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There is Divine Light and Sound Within You, Within Everyone - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @
https://youtu.be/5jFXNSHoHgU@
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I've been looking at Plato lately, as a #contemplative. And I'm seeing that in the Allegory of the Cave, where the person is initially blinded by the sunlight, the verb Plato uses is *aporein*, which means to be in a state of *aporia*.
And *aporia* is used for the kind of #unknowing that Socrates provoked in the people he talked with, in helping them to realize they didn't really know things they thought they did.
(I have an essay on Socrates along those lines, here—)
