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@DefenderOfBasic Thinking about this exact thing actually, and the similarity with other kinds of 'mental weights', made me have a clearer insight for the understanding and felt sense of what tanha could be, this mental grasping/clinging that could be the cause of suffering.
@Tangrenin I feel like I'm learning so much from these interactions!! First, yes this idea of naming as seeing feels powerful. It's something I've always read about but rarely experienced. It really is like you literally can't recognize it prior to naming https://t.co/xirt8N01O2
@DefenderOfBasic I agree! it's crazy how sometimes even naming is all it takes yesI don't know if you've heard of the Gendlin's Focusing technique, it's about un-knotting inner tension by thinking about a problem, putting attention into the felt senses you get, and
@DefenderOfBasic waiting to come up with handles abt the sense/problem until 1 resonates and make you feel a shift in your sensationsI found it really intriguing how basically just the 'right naming', the extra effort to really see a pattern, creates a feeling of release and a space for growth
@DefenderOfBasic But it makes sense. As one wisely said, this act of bearing witness is an act of love, and there is always more room for growth with love :))https://t.co/wDfHHrh5OT
@Tangrenin It honestly feels like one of the most loving things you can do another living thinking being: to bear witness to the workings of their mind. To really hear them. To spend the effort to understand someone's edifice of ideas and to add to it.
@DefenderOfBasic It's the thing that is so often mistranslated as craving or desire, and misleads into thinking that buddhism advocates that desires lead to sufferingit's a big rabbit hole, but a really interesting one! refs: https://t.co/zphsVqrNrA and https://t.co/LNiny2wQwe
@DefenderOfBasic It's the thing that is so often mistranslated as craving or desire, and misleads into thinking that buddhism advocates that desires lead to sufferingit's a big rabbit hole, but a really interesting one! refs: https://t.co/zphsVqrNrA and https://t.co/LNiny2wQwe