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Really. https://t.co/STblr7bNhr
In a trivial sense, every proposition is true, really, once you reframe proposition X to: ”my background factors led me at this moment to feel X” ”Ah yes, you’re right, your background factors would lead you to believe that.” There’s something there https://t.co/yFaxGm6eRb
Words are just pointers. HAHAHAHA. The semioticists knew this. They even call it form like the Buddhist. They thought about meaning and theoreised how it works—the Buddhists noticed mental events and observed how it works. https://t.co/Tl2z84Czf5 https://t.co/qDBCUWoK4z
It’s so liberating to notice and let go of the impulse to contract around agreeing/disagreeing. It’s said eaching knowing is a contraction that causes suffering. Form obscures the complex infinite nuance of truth. https://t.co/VafWBnwF8Z
. . . I got where he was coming from. There was that strain on encountering his opinion—do I agree/disagree, the strain of encountering any controversial take, picking tribes, deciding what simplified memes need to be amplified over simplified memes— https://t.co/dw2YpPgZyO
It hurts the body to hold on to falsehoods. These are the noticings of subtle, micro-mental events by the Buddhists. https://t.co/XJS4MJZKtH
“Why does acceptance hurt?” Because the hurt is already there. The pain and effort of maintaining a delusion, of grasping on so tightly so that we might survive, clefting off voices in ourselves so we might not lose focus — that hurts. https://t.co/PRDI7kIlPc
That’s not say I must do something, or I’m bad and doomed if I don’t do what they say. It is to say a very thoughtful, dedicated group of people sat down to observe the human mind and came back with very similar noticings that can be help. https://t.co/AsE2A7NuCL
Listen to the truth in everything because it makes the world a kinder, more understandable, and more interesting place to be. https://t.co/PFs0EneQGn
@AskYatharth @meekaale maybe lots of people teach about both but you sometimes have to read between the lines eg https://t.co/PWCED6KRbG