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Food
Be kinder about your relationship with food. Food is the first way we learn to self-soothe as babies. It’s association with alleviating discomfort is a strong one.
No Gurus, No Teachers
If enlightenment, joy, and grace are available to all people, then they cannot be accessed through books, words, thoughts, teachers, or gurus. They are experienced individually and directly.
Self-Knowledge
The beauty of biographies, self-help books, and spiritual texts is not the knowledge or advice they provide, but the spark they ignite in you to examine your own existence.
Opt-Out, Don’t Tough Through
Billions of dollars are spent to steal my attention on devices, websites, and applications.
I likely don’t stand a chance. So better to opt-out then tough through.
You Set The Limits
An issue for many forms of work is that you can always do more. Ultimately, you have to set the limits.
Conditioning
It’s easy to feel trapped in your own negative conditioning—acting in impulsive, counterproductive ways and suffering in avoidable circumstances. Tempting it is to recondition yourself into “positive” ways of being, incorporating “better habits” with “more productive” ways of acting. This too is conditioning: the same mechanism that brought you suffering in the first place. Eliminating conditioning cannot happen by deconditioning yourself, as this is simply reconditioning by another name—a clever trick of the brain. Eliminating conditioning can only be done indirectly, through awareness of your conditioning, seeing it clearly for all it is, without trying to change it.
The Limits of Self-Awareness
Being self-aware or telegraphing self-awareness of your harmful behaviors doesn’t absolve you of them.
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