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p22:
sort of: don't try to escape [or grasp] sensations*** you're already having [when safe, when ready; selectively, at first, or ongoingly, ]
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- The sense in which there is no "after [you're done with] meditation"
- no [perceptual] "after" [but see **]
- no [perceptual] "next" [but see **]
- no [perceptual] "end[ing]" [but see **]
- no [perceptual] "escape" [but see **]
- actually looking, actually seeing, etc., but without karmic layering in the [non-doing] of such/it/that
- no accumulating, no claiming, no making progress, no acquiring, no locking-in, no future [that is not empty and now]
- no end / will never be "over" / no immediate-perceptual escape; it's already happening**
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- may find the sensory field hurts, at first (maybe many firsts), in ways didn't realize it is or would
- **paradoxical contra impermanence, arising, passing away
- again, never have to do this unless ready, becomes safe [cf. "you are the music while the music lasts"]
- (((scholarly note: cf. valence, pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, but it's more complicated than that, not to over-reify or over-apply that schema)))
- already true, already real, already happening in the lightest senses of all these words
- ***[don't try to escape...] also thoughts, fears, anticipations, etc., etc. [...you're already having] --- careful of limited or preconceived ontologies, etc., etc.
- If safe enough for the feared truth to be true/“true”/“…”, if safe enough for feared truth to be known, if safe enough to feel the fear/terror/pain/uncertainty/anything/etc. related, then “…”
- cf. “in this exact very moment you are safe right now”
- cf. “but you’re not dead, and now, and now, and now…”
- cf. “but you are breathing… and now… and now… and now…”
- cf. “previously had to rely on anxiety/‘anxiety’ for readiness but now can rely on ‘calm effortless spontaneous ‘alertness’ / “””clarity””” for readiness
- can wait [in stillness] for '''sensations''' to come up and maybe even ‘help’ a tiny bit but cf, karma, layering careful about going looking and careful about making, pushing of course, and of course not ‘excavating’; cf. wayfinding and subtlest p2; openings, options, opportunities
- e.g. non-anxiety through patient ... over thousands of hours becomes a dominating strategy; cannot be rushed or hacked, has to be natively noticed as genuinely better option all the way down plus anti-fragile transformation such becomes better option