daniel ingram

• a [[person]].
  • [[arahant]].
  • #pull [[mctb]]
  • [[friend]]? I would hope

• an [[activity]].
  • [[practice]]
  • I finally gave meditation a try back in [[2018]] or so because of [[sam harris]].
    • It essentially changed my life, as did [[yoga]] later.
    • Flancia, I believe, would not have been possible without meditation.
  • #pull [[meditation practice]] [[meditation for programmers]]
  • #pull [[buddhism]] [[hinduism]] [[christianism]] [[mysticism]] [[religion]]
  • To [[focus]] (or "bootstrap"), I often make use of [[counting practice]].
  • For more on this, and applications as a method of [[loci]], see [[Flancia pattern language]].
  • [[samatha]] [[vipassana]] [[metta]] [[kasina]]

• When there is a lot of [[surprise]], there is a lot of [[energy]].
• To try to [[control]] it will make it bounce back against you. To call a negative thing positive is an attempt to control it.
• Sit with the [[energy]] to figure out where it wants to go. This is how you [[listen]] and see more options.
• See [[choice]] less angle. [[Relate]] with things as they are to include all the [[options]].
• When you are not expressing yourself, you are not [[free]]. So, you begin to [[struggle]]. This struggle creates a [[routine]], which you then use as a [[response]] instead of responding to what is.
• [[Truth]] has no tomorrow- it is beyond [[time]]. Do not recreate yesterday's truth today.
• [[Concentration]] is a form of [[selection]]. Selection implies a selector- a thinker. This selector creates the [[contradiction]].
• Concentration is [[selective]] [[attention]]- it focuses on one thing by making everything else lesser. Whole [[awareness]] does not select, and so includes everything.
• [[Awareness]] is surrendering to [[Everything]].
• The moment, NOW, is timeless.
• The shortest possible line between two points is the [[simple]]st path.