This is the zen practice of bare recognition:
"we don’t hang on to anything passing through our mind,
and we don’t try to get rid of it, either."
@holon42
I suspect that non-religious practices of mindfulness and self-realization would be similar. Even existentialism encourages some of the same mindsets. All humans can benefit from self-awareness and self-control.
oh yes. existential phenomenology and psychology involve and invite the same practices.
if you have particular quotations at hand, i'd be interested in reading them.
@holon42
Some of my favorites:
"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
Seneca
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Laozi
Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.
Laozi
“Follow where reason leads.”
Zeno
Your turn. 😉
those are gems🙏🏻
@Jeber
every day brings a new harvest.
"The "group of dragons" means the three contemplations exercised to awaken three kinds of knowledge.
These are the three contemplations and three knowledges:
that everything is interdependent, nothing exists alone;
that while nothing therefore exists in and of itself, nevertheless things do exist, conditionally;
and that because of this nature of things, everything is always in between being and nonbeing."
so, attachment 🔜suffering
@Jeber
yes, the Stoics have a very similar practice, and outlook on life as well.
perhaps the two conditions are connected 😎