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often when I think of action, it feel like a tug of war between hardocre manifest-your-will-on-reality and the opposed zen levels of accepting whatever happens these both feel like they are trying to manage me my managing the intensity of my want/desire.../
hmmmmm, so the main way that Manifest Will can fuck you, is that your desire is SO Intense, and your fear of not meeting that desire is SO strong, that dumb panicy systems get put in charge of steering and force is mindlessly applied
the more reactive or unpredictable your environment, the more need to stay on your toes. your will/desire can be unbounded, but your touch must be light https://t.co/8UxLhmDLs4
@TheOrangeAlt this has been a thing that your recent "no half assing" has made me clarify. yes, i want to drop shit that doesn't matter and pursue shit that does. but I want to make sure I don't get a death grip on my sword
@ResonantPyre So, I think something weird happens that potentially makes it counterproductive to hold that goal. Essentially, martial arts texts seem to hold that our ideas of all goals are rigid in a way that induces blindness to the actual space of available action.
just found a great post by @silencenbetween on "grasping". Good first person perspective on what it feels like to grasp https://t.co/14n1Wirdbf