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p32:
Release effort / Release "I-fort" ; puzzle-solve / seek safe-all-the-way-down-and-global effortlessness.
seek effortlessness / incline towards effortlessness
Notes:
- (cf. wu wei)
- inexertion, inaction, non-doing, non-action, no doing, non-striving, non-forcing, non-strength-of-will-ing, non-willpower-ing, non-efforting, effortless action, spontaneous action...
- non-thinking, non-solving, non-intellectualizing, no "problem-solving-pressure"
- See also: “Just sit” / “Don’t (intellectually) solve anything”
- perhaps vaguely Shikantaza (but very minus any extreme will, diligence, etc.)
- Related: https://x.com/meditationstuff/status/1718224443762266616 (bonkers, sloppy tweet, but, etc.)
- 'I’m starting to get a little suspicious that Taoism might be low key the strictly superior product but Buddhism has both extensive technical manuals and better marketing. Buddhism sells the problem and then the solution and Taoism is just like “It’s useless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"'
- I'm probably being really dumb in this tweet and riffing off of poor translations
- 'I’m starting to get a little suspicious that Taoism might be low key the strictly superior product but Buddhism has both extensive technical manuals and better marketing. Buddhism sells the problem and then the solution and Taoism is just like “It’s useless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"'
- this is maybe for some people sort of a "heavy-hitter" that should be reflected in the percentages section where I indicate a ton of p2, when I update that
- a related formulation: notice / rest-in-how awareness, experiencing, etc. is effortless, takes no effort, no action, no doing, no intention, no will, etc.
Related / see also:
- Awbery, Charlie. Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity. Evolving Ground Ltd, 2023.
- "advanced" (or whatever) pith instructions (work in progress)
Notes:
- cf. rhetoric around "ego" and "all problem caused by the ego" and "ego is the enemy" and "rigid ego" and "'big ego' in a bad way" type stuff (including or esp. wrt to interpersonal stuff and "problems in the world")
- cf. maybe: Trungpa, Chogyam. Cutting through spiritual materialism. Shambhala Publications, 2002., all caveats, etc.
- more here...
- cf. Tillich's ~"What is of ultimate concern?" via Ken Wilber, all caveats, etc.
- cf. problematic misconceptions of "no-self" vs also I-I type stuff, via Ken Wilber, all caveats, etc.
- cf. overlap and not ego in the sense of Loevinger, Cook-Greuter, etc., and "spiritual cross training" via Ken Wilber, all caveats, etc.
- also: Wilber, Ken. The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions-More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete. Shambhala Publications, 2017., all caveats, etc.
- draft/scratch note; ignore maybe: compare with e.g. (and other things) "choiceless awareness" which could be sort of thought of as "reducing friction" and letting awareness continguously move/untwist/reconfigure whereas this is choosing/allowing/surrendering/... with respect to sense of effort/​"I-fort"