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by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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Embrace your own shadow

The Jaguar walks with the shadow, not against it.

When anger, fear, or sadness arises — stalk it like Jaguar:

Still. Present. Without judgment. And you will transmute it without effort.

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Colley Whisson (Australian painter b. 1966) Morning Light, Staithes, UK, 2023 Oil on Canvas

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“If you tie yourself to a particular religion, spiritual path or philosophical perspective then you tend to exclude the wisdom of other paths. To hold to one Way, one point of view, one perspective as exclusively correct is to necessarily reject or deny all other points of view. But Reality contains ALL points of view, and the function of spirituality is to point towards this Whole so that one can stop “thinking about” and actually investigate, via direct experience, this unfathomably rich and dynamic Mystery–to see/feel/Be It, and ultimately to be comprehended by It. This is why all spiritual systems, if followed through to their proper end, necessarily involve their own demise in the minds of their beholder, the actual practitioner. Every concept, every image, no matter how holy or luminous it may appear, is a structure delimiting the Space of Presence; but Enlightenment is the Seeing/Being of this Space, of Reality, without any cognitive structures or psychological filters whatsoever. It is the Space of Presence unimpeded by any thought-form or idea whatsoever. It is simply discovering the openness of Being Itself that is always already the background all experience.”

— The Mystical Lion (via mysticallion)

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“Have a little bit of faith in yourself and let that be your most beautiful quality. Take in a little more of softness in your day to day tasks and allow your inner stillness to guide you into peaceful efficiency.”

— Juansen Dizon, Working With Softness

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Off to work!

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“AI (ChatGPT) and the Dangers of Monoculture” is a book that needs to be written, preferably without the use of AI

For those of us pre-millennials who thought the Internet was going to perpetuate hive mind

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Awareness is always CLEAR: Calm, Luminous, Expansive, Allowing and Responsive. Calm - The contents of awareness (sights, sounds, thoughts, emotions, etc.) always change, but awareness is the changeless field in which they appear to us. The field of awareness itself is still, silent, and undisturbable. In the same way, the screen on which a movie plays never changes while the movie is constantly changing. The screen is never disturbed by the movie. Luminous - Awareness is the knowing presence in which all experiences appear and are illuminated by awareness. It's like a spotlight that makes our experiences known. Awareness is the illuminated that lets the movie show on the screen. Expansive - Awareness is vast and spacious, like the sky. It is boundless. Entire galaxies can fit into the movie that shows on a screen. Allowing - Awareness itself is transparent and insubstantial. It does not obstruct, reject, or cling to any of the experiences that show within it. The movie screen does not resist what is displaying on it. Responsive - Although impartial and undisturbable, it nonetheless engenders love, peace, joy, and awe. In the light of awareness, experiences are recognized to be vibrant and alive, not cold, dead matter. Awareness itself is already awake. "This very awareness is the Buddha," said Mazu. We don't need to get enlightened, or create any of these CLEAR characteristics. Awareness is always already this way. The problem is that we overlook it. We focus on the objects of experience (shapes, colors, sounds, etc.) and ignore the field in which we know them. We are so fascinated with the movie that we ignore the very screen they are playing on. In those moments when we recognize the screen of awareness itself, we are awake. The more we familiarize ourselves with it, the more awake we are. But it's even simpler than that. We are it. We feel like we're a body with a thinking mind, but in reality body, mind, and world all appear in awareness. It's the same awareness that you've been experiencing the world with your entire life. You think you exist in the world, but the world exists inside you, awareness.

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