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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

How to make friends with the ground 🧵 https://t.co/N8SLxnjDgM

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

The only thing that made sense to me is the ground is my friend, and me

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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I feel the there-ness of the ground. The way it’s there. I feel the there-ness of my body above it I feel the way the ground supports me My body becomes just a particular storehouse of sensations. Existing in a much more vast mind I feel grounded, felt & supported by th ground https://t.co/abgP15LdpM

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

I experience the me-ness of the there-ness as a self-evident fact. https://t.co/kSRgpDTnG2

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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I’m so very happy to DM with you, or vid call, if you feel curious about this.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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It’s very Dzogchen. I made up the words “me-ness” and “there-ness”; and the whole making the ground a friend thing I got from a friend who used to make trees her friend. https://t.co/D2VQV4cdrk

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Hug them. Respect them. Admire them. My friend Hana used to say: Trees are wise. They have a lot of wisdom inside each of them. She used to walk around so reventially, I haven’t forgotten it.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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If you know Dzogchen, though, it should be familiar. The one taste of all sense-fields. The there-ness (~= energy?) underlying all awareness, thought, and perception.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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It’s expansive. It’s always there. What’s it’s like to have the ground as a friend—it extends out everywhere around me. I get to settle into that expansiveness comfortably, as my body on top figures things out, this time unworried.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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If the ground couldn’t feel you, how could you feel it? [koan] https://t.co/8quEhLwd5a

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

If the ground couldn’t feel you, how could you feel it? Newton’s Second Law of Emotion.

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Fun Pilgrim@tasshinfogleman• about 4 years ago

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@AskYatharth 😍

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