misc collection of nice diagrams
https://x.com/nickcammarata/status/1755783001831833603
people sometimes worry that awakening and surrendering to the present moment sounds like dissociation. but it's more like flow states than the dissociation caused by trauma or some drugs. i made this diagram to help
https://x.com/nickcammarata/status/1896824317083857145
[color for the diagram] might be helpful, there's a connection that's always there, a sameness, which doesn't remove the differentness between you two, but that sameness you can always feel, it's immutable, it's just how sensory experience is structured. it can feel strong, not subtle
slightly more radical theory is that happiness sort of is connection and so the unconditional happiness that meditation purports gives you is better interpreted as unconditional connection, which turns into unconditional happiness
or, https://x.com/plus3happiness/status/1896830963419885946
a different attempt at the same triune (self/me, other, the unconditioned) integrating both self and other into the unconditioned (which behaves a verb, not a 'thing')
https://x.com/askyatharth/status/1745413667934650537
have you seen this triangle?
i stared at this dozens of times. it took me five years to realise
https://x.com/octopusyarn/status/1953851473831342378
I made a table comparing the three major schools of Buddhism (per request of @nosilverv )
Choose your adventure, seeker
