Introspection|Extrospection
Recollect your self and your other in samadhi.
Tag: consciousness
Recollection
Constant self-remembering (smṛti, स्मृति) leads to samadhi (समाधि).
Memento mori VI
The ultimate meditation: If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that—at a time not too distant—each one of us will simply cease to be. It won’t be like going into darkness forever, for there will be neither darkness, nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone […]
Maturity II
How to be a wise child: [R]eturn to that naked awareness, that vision unclouded by commentary, which we enjoyed as babies in the days when we saw no difference between knower and known, deed and happening. This time, however, we are babies reborn–babies who remember all the rules and tricks of human games and can […]
Memento mori II
Practice deathbed meditation thusly: “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.” “So is all conditioned existence to be seen.” https://diamond-sutra.com/read-the-diamond-sutra-here/diamond-sutra-chapter-32/
Circadian rhythm
Wake without needing caffeine. Sleep without needing melatonin.
Wild life
In wildness is the preservation of the world, not just exterior wildness but interior wildness too. Compare: https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/62ad058b02ac500007ef03b3
Tonus of the bodymind
The aim and end of yoga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavasana
AP News: US overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says
Though medicine can cure many ills, may we achieve and teach others to achieve blissful states of consciousness without drugs. https://apnews.com/article/overdose-deaths-opioids-fentanyl-8cb302a70ddbb6a435f9e8fbb19f153b
World Autism Awareness Day – United Nations
https://www.un.org/en/observances/autism-day A deeper understanding of autism (self-ism) is necessary to limn a more complete picture of human consciousness.
The Gloss 