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“And I realised my mistake. I was only looking for things to throw out. What I should be doing is finding the things I want to keep.” This quote is incredible. It’s witnessing the (literal) moment the guru got their awakening. You don’t see this every day. https://t.co/4Gd9I9fcAj https://t.co/x5sojNHkkA
It’s that moment of insight, gifted by god, or the mind, same thing, when the guru gets their Generator. The little sort of source from the rest of their mind begins viewing the world and coming up with their stuff. https://t.co/VAAszjHDZY
i mean, it’s a wonder we have thoughts at all. where do those come from? they just sort of do. it’s not that much further of a stretch to construe it as god, or beginningless enlightenment, or yourself. it’s the same thing https://t.co/hxwccQcDU6 https://t.co/LoV86FtmS5
If the insight is a needle, Clean your Room is the t-shirt you can wear. If you have the insight, you can repair the shirt; you can mend it. You can make shirts yourselves. https://t.co/ch5Edg8eKh
Both of them stayed with their generator long enough to solve all the little micro-problems that come with their Big Answer. So people don’t have to spend time with the micro-problems. They can just focus on the Stuff. https://t.co/bLsBLk7HjH
If you have the generator, you can taste the electricity from these creators drank, and reinvent the truth of the practice for yourself. It’s asking the question: “Where did this stuff come from??” Heading upstream. https://t.co/0I3CUcBmMv https://t.co/kMwvWGD1Li
rephrased: When you get the Generator—the felt sense or POV that generated all their stuff—you are now a Chef. That doesn’t mean you’ve got a recipe or meal in front of you though. https://t.co/TG3MLdXJ6g
I have met too many Silicon Valley nerds who figured this much out, and wanted to “chase the generators” and the “generators of the generators” and never figured Living out. Please also Cook. It is good and Sexy to Cook for yourself. Romanticise drudgery. https://t.co/dUjoxhTOyX
Everything flows from the core insight. But it still matters Marie Kondo came up with the rest of her framework. potential by itself is nothing; the chance to become something https://t.co/bIXzF9mAfy
There’s the Big Answers and then there are the little micro-problems you solve along the way and those *really* matter. If you figure out how to solve those then you’ve solved a problem for people, and they really value that.
Where does that insight come form? It’s god, it’s experience, it’s their own mind. Who knows where you get insights from. The magic melting pot of reality. https://t.co/VAAszjHDZY
i mean, it’s a wonder we have thoughts at all. where do those come from? they just sort of do. it’s not that much further of a stretch to construe it as god, or beginningless enlightenment, or yourself. it’s the same thing https://t.co/hxwccQcDU6 https://t.co/LoV86FtmS5
pairing the concrete framework with a New Big Idea https://t.co/dUSi61iQv2
The interesting part is guruship (~= helping people change their lives) often combines both: - a concrete framework, that solved the micro-problems in the process - and a vague sense of a “New Big Idea” that gets people excited (it doesn’t have to be very novel or big) https://t.co/SueootNkO9