Do you like nylon zip-ties? I am presently quite infatuated. Pretty, durable, useful and cheap.

Did you click the links to where shrink and grow are described and so on? Because there’s more there than just that first page.

I know what you mean by noise.

Concentration is of course the awesome power tool for handling that but shikantaza gets there eventually too.

The terms I’ve heard for that are “getting still”, “getting silent” and “getting peaceful”. I haven’t come up with a better one.

Shikantaza is just such a wondrous scifi revolution. It’s GENTLE.

Consider that in concentration you withdraw your awareness from the world. A shrinking. This is a blindness. And action taken while blind is … well you get the idea.

But Shikantaza is an expanding illumination. The invisible becomes visible. It’s a superior high too.

And that’s just babble of course and I don’t expect you to agree with me about their comparative virtues.

Here’s my favorite thing on the subject. It’s succinct.

http://fleen.org/fluffy_cloud

The higher horror because at least you are in reality and still have agency. Fuzzled to oblivion, totally dominated by that eater and lost in videogames, not so much.

(I actually have a little experience with higher horrors. Worst thing in the world, for sure. But after bumping against the threshold a hundred times one learns to navigate that territory successfully. You can figure out literally anything)

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I think it’s old. I heard reference to it in old Yoga books. They called it “habitually one-pointed”. They considered it desirable.

Also in a book about shamens. They called it the teaching disease. Because it teaches you some otherwise difficult to grasp stuff about reality.

Nice try DHS

Primer

Reading might actually be bad for you. The psychic equivalent of footbinding. Leaves you deformed and incapable of seeing leprechauns.

Promethea by Alan Moore

I do it too. Pleased to meet you.

Do you do concentration meditation (anapanasati, samatha…) in preparation for shikantaza? (I used to, now I don’t).

Do you prefer the shikantaza state and find concentrative states distasteful? (I do somewhat)

Because I do shikantaza and I’m looking for peers to discuss a few points with.

I know a guy like that. He got better at it and now he’s still notorious. A king among demons.

They have been productized. Everybody’s equal in their suitedness to consume this new product. To speak and to control who speaks, no matter the subject. It’s nice but also a bit dumb. Sometimes really dumb. I prefer a bit more meritocracy.

As a person of the male genre I prefer to express my emotions through body hair

A group of me is an ass burger

Now I can’t stop seeing it

Propaganda campaign aimed at population of enemy countries. Promising anything. Putting the most innocent and attractive face on. Establishing close relationships