p14:

Full/​complete pith practice instructions: (Effortlessly) be here, now. Or, find yourself here and now.

notes:

  • common reactions: "pointless and intolerable/excruciating"; "can't do anything here"; boring; nothing to do here; I myself will become boring; will lose track of something important, will lose cognitive momentum on something, will lose track of goals; literally painful
  • good nutrition helps
  • it might be useful for illuminating to temporarily avoid the "feel" of "fantasy worlds" e.g. from movies or books or video games, or to distinguish from illumination (bears usefully on the """""real""""" [sic] world versus impinging/​obscuring. But temporary is recommended because of redo-to-undo.)
  • don't be here now, to start
  • taking refuge (can reshape the local environment and world; global wayfinding through late-stage); art, creativity as whole, part, or beginning of that
  • You might find in this state that thoughts, thinking, mind arises in that spatiousness and quietness and experiential nowness, or somewhere proximal, and adjacent elsewhereness, almost with quasi-spatiality. [etc etc.] [this line also elsewhere in document]

scratch note:

  • the higher main practice numbers not to indicate it's the final practice, best practice, most advanced practice, only true practice, etc.
  • re many flavors and senses of “just this” (some more on point than others) but it’s not “””reductive”””? Like “the whole of everything” is sort of auto-tracked in the background. It doesn’t need foreground attention. Or like it's "suffused" "within" foreground attention or something or like it's the "lens" of foreground attention. (cf. though/​vs awareness)
  • Not that there isn’t past, future, and elsewhere but effortlessly and completely accounted-for in/as the present and also empty, provisional, conditioned, etc.

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