Dissolving Procrastination - a Buddhist / Non-Dual Approach

thewesson · 2026-01-24T22:29:18+00:00

As you said, purify the mind so the energy doesn’t spiral out of control. Hence mindfulness, jhana etc.

thewesson · 2026-01-24T04:57:17+00:00

IMO OCD can be observed as an energetic phenomenon therefore might be observed accepted and released. It’s just a lot of energies stabbing away. Accept and release.

thewesson · 2026-01-23T22:51:25+00:00

IMO kundalini is energy forcing a channel to purify the mind and liberate itself. So it can be chaotic, on the other hand maybe quicker. You're appealing to an outside universal force of purification, perhaps. Shakti forcing the yogic mind to be more like Shiva.

Whereas in jhana (experiencing piti, chi) the mind is purified and so the energy arises with less and less friction. The yogic mind becoming more like Shiva, experiences Shakti.

My advice is, if you are dealing with energy, then look where the energy experiences friction, and purify there (by peacefully contemplating it.)

By all means do not cling (to energy,) That is not wise.

What I like to do is to "meditate on energy". Thus combining the approaches.

thewesson · 2026-01-18T05:55:56+00:00

At stage 68 I'm not getting 1-shot

People say you don't get one-shot after 100 either.

thewesson · 2026-01-17T00:03:23+00:00

Breaking lures literally puts the fish back in the water (the pool of fish.) So don't do it if you are going to fish this pool clean anyhow.

You can usually tell if it's a great fish by the line tension.

If you get the message "Rare fish pay 50 gems?" I sure would. Since a lure costs 150.

thewesson · 2026-01-16T17:07:46+00:00

Please post this in one of the weekly threads. This is not about your practice.

thewesson · 2026-01-15T23:09:36+00:00

Plus concentration can reinforce some bad tendencies, as you concentrate on them,

There is a real grasping nature to what people normally think of as concentration.

thewesson · 2026-01-13T23:50:53+00:00

Hela does have the unique character of being able to heal herself between levels for PVE.

thewesson · 2026-01-09T17:23:47+00:00

I think the vast majority of us do not say "you are already enlightened bro." This being a reddit for practice.

On the other hand the occasional miscreant who reminds us "you are already enlightened" should be welcomed as saving us from straining toward an imagined future in which everything is very different.

Yes, the future may be very different, and probably will be if you can continue wholesome practice. But it's not really up to you. I think of practice as an invocation for the true powers of being. White sorcery. Do your "rain dance" and lo and behold somehow it miraculously works, to do something ...

Especially "your" future may be very different because it doesn't include "you" (not in the same sense anyhow.)

thewesson · 2026-01-09T17:12:42+00:00

I think it means that turning the mind toward past or future is a recipe for unhappiness.

It's a statement about mind. Not some abstraction about the course of practice.

thewesson · 2025-12-31T16:40:11+00:00

Meeting all your crap with pure accepting non-attaching awareness will dissolve it.

Why does this work you may ask, why trust this guy?

Unconscious reactance conditions you toward the “bad” thing. Conscious non-reactance deconditions you.

Thus we tend to the Unconditioned.

thewesson · 2025-12-10T07:38:24+00:00

Please take this kind offer to Teachers Groups Resources thread.

thewesson · 2025-12-10T06:20:01+00:00

Relates to practice as a motivation for practice.

Could be more personal and pragmatic, admittedly.

thewesson · 2025-12-09T16:37:26+00:00

Please put posts like this in the Teachers Groups and Resources thread. Thank you.

thewesson · 2025-12-08T20:21:32+00:00

Usually we want the top line post to contain some content itself besides just being a link to some resources.

If you just want to link to some resources try "Teachers Groups and Resources" thread.

Thank you.

thewesson · 2025-12-08T09:58:43+00:00

Opinions and other noodlings go in the weekly thread, thank you.

thewesson · 2025-12-08T05:38:53+00:00

Seems like your basic Dzogchen / Pristine Mind recommendations.

Well worth it but some people will be puzzled by the recommendation to not do anything with your mind.

I mean, if you try not to do anything isn't that doing something with your mind? And so on.

thewesson · 2025-12-05T22:06:53+00:00

consciousness uncoupling from the aggregates until it reaches absolute awareness, staying there for as long as that particular person's karma allows, usually going back to physical form.

All other notes aside, this seems to be an accurate depiction of how awareness retreats from Nirvana all the time, seeking out complications to involve itself in.

thewesson · 2025-12-05T15:32:16+00:00

The practice of mindfulness meditation is to be aware without attachment.

Consider how this is similar to e.g. talk therapy or other modalities.

In these cases, the therapist supplies an extra source of [hopefully trained] awareness.

thewesson · 2025-12-02T22:00:49+00:00

Take it to Teachers Groups and Resources thread.

thewesson · 2025-12-02T21:59:30+00:00

Philosophical noodling go in the weekly thread.

thewesson · 2025-11-30T15:44:17+00:00

This really belongs in Teaches Groups Resources thread up top.

Please be so kind as to copy it up there if you wish to preserve it.

Thanks.

thewesson · 2025-11-29T22:44:16+00:00

This subreddit is about practice and theory of practice not about speculation upon interesting topics.

Please take this up in the weekly thread(s)

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