sense and sensibility
I think @jhanatech is doing very solid work (see this writeup by @nayafia https://t.co/R7GrbyUjHp... See more
jhana discourse & muscular system
I was just explaining to my friend this is how the 8 consciousnesses create a feedback loop that forms reality. The 5 senses feed raw nonconceptual and equanimious sense data to the 6th consciousness, the chitta, which conceptualize what it's being fed. "That's a dog, that's a chair, that's red" etc.
This is fed into the 7th consciousness, the ma... See more
hey I wrote about the winding road I took to understanding active inference and the free energy principle to my satisfaction
I also give a pithy explanation and discuss possible shortcomings
link below https://t.co/6TRiH4wUKe
the person who cannot hear their inner signals anymore “guides himself by clocks, rules, calendars, schedules, agenda, and by hints and cues from other people” https://t.co/qtJTq6zglc
from: the farther reaches of human nature
Oh this clicked something for me
I believe adults manipulate their perceptual fields all the time too, but the critical thing is that they don’t typically perceive that they’re doing it when they do
and one of the great things about journalling is that it reveals this to you
@RichDecibels @s0ulDirect0r eg. sometimes i start pretend molding some imaginary mass of goo and passing it back and forth between our hands. what if when the bass drops it becomes more liquid? what if it suddenly posseses my body? what if it becomes scary or funny or if were suddenly both inside of it?
interesting consequence of this is that adhd might just mean you have a body with more fragments of the computation in it, distributed across society. you are responsible for their integration. suggests the answer would involve an idiosyncratic path
Another "Simplest" Exercise of Responsiveness
open.substack.com
Whatever appears has a feeling-texture, which includes the felt-sense of extension, density, motion, atmosphere — altogether, a complex continuously evolving weather pattern.
Feel the diverse fields of feeling-textures of what is happening, including the feeling-texture that is happening as you.
Allow yourself be moved by the the interaction of these fields as they drift, collide, seep into each other, merge, divide, and intermix.