Wystan
@WystanTBS
☀️💎🌈 Meditation Teacher, Advisor ཨ https://qri.org/, Team ཨ https://theeprc.org/, 👋🌊🙇♂️
"Looking at objects, there are no objects; we see only mind. Looking at mind, there is no mind; it is empty of an essence. Looking at both, dualistic clinging is spontaneously liberated. May we realize luminosity, the true nature of mind." nalandatranslation.org/wp-content/upl…
In general, you will have a much better time in life if you assume that it is your responsibility to prompt the interactions you would like to have
clicky clicky dopamine drippy adult pacifiers sick, drunk, dozing that's enough for today
For my American followers: you have until the end of the year to make home improvements in the name of energy efficiency or purchase a green vehicle before green energy tax credits are eliminated.
Boulder friends you have convinced me, I'll be spending either June-July or July-August here next year, leading one or two residential retreats and more wilderness fun again as well.❤️
We seek stimulation so much from the outside world that we forget how much stimulation we have available on the inside. When we are fully in touch with our senses, sitting still can be as orgasmic as any sexual experience When we’re fully in touch with our intuitions, they’re…
The more balanced your life gets, the more you feel that social media is noise. You start to question what’s the point of lowball short-term validation dopamine posts without new info. And it’s not feasible to cook a new feature for Solady every week just for Fantasy Top content.
I’m here to report back that if you are willing to go to the depths of your pain, you will be able to go deeper into your joy and gratitude than you ever even knew was possible.
Another gorgeous morning here in the beginningless cycle of birth and death:
What is the influence of long-term meditation on attention? How might attentional changes relate to the emergence of advanced meditative states and traits? In our new preprinted review, “Attention and Meditative Development: A Review and Synthesis of Long-Term Meditators and…
💀Death Grips in the gap between retreats: "Come come fuck apart in here I die in the process You die in the process Kettle drum roll hard shit..." open.spotify.com/track/5YnS9oWr…
Nothing but dedicated, disciplined practice over years and thousands of hours supported and accelerated by rigorous feedbacks will reach mastery. This is true of literally everything worthwhile in life. Why people imagine meditation would be any different confounds me.
📺 @techgnostic and @WystanTBS rethinking Vajrayana for contemporary conditions. Clear and helpful! Striking how similar their views are to those of @_awbery_ and myself. Does this represent a wider emerging, coalescing revisioning? youtube.com/watch?v=u-gNEw…
"In true perfection of generosity, there is no one who gives, no thing given nor received, and no one one receiving." ... "That's nice, sir. You still have to pay for your lunch."
my kink is taking things that I could sell for profit and making them freely available
"I spent 40 years analysing all of history, physics, psychology, and discovered we're really disconnected from Truth and it's actually in direct experience that we can access it! Isn't that profound?" "Thanks John, can we start the meditation now?"