yet another pith instruction formulation (experimental):

Say there is PROACTIVE SELF-CARE (pushing, pushing away, forcing, managing, controlling, "forward-ing," deliberate doing, making, blocking, preventing, willing, deliberate doing, haste, rushing, completing, becoming...)

Say there is RECEPTIVE SELF-CARE (patience, surrender, non-interference, allowing, keeping company, hanging out with, letting be, going-along-with, even-enjoying, just-enjoying, participating-in, including, non-resistance, choosing...)

Say there is SPONTANEOUS SELF-CARE (spontaneity, positive-automaticity, non-extra-ness, nothing-added, just-this, inexertion, non-doing, non-controlling-attention, non-deliberate-awareness, non-exertion, non-efforting, ease, effortlessness, free-fall, fluidity, flowing, path-of-least resistance, being, non-becoming...)

Say there is (a) SAFE suffering, (b) currently UNSAFE suffering that CAN be affected, and (c) currently UNSAFE suffering that currently CANNOT be affected.

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When there is UNSAFE suffering that CAN be affected, gently participate in proactive self-care.

When there is UNSAFE suffering that CANNOT be affected, gently participate in receptive self-care.

When there is SAFE suffering, gently DISCOURAGE (prevent, block, avoid...) NEW proactive self-care; AND, gently ENCOURAGE (allow, surrender-to, non-interfere-with, help-out...) OLD proactive self-care; AND, gently encourage receptive self-care, AND relax-into, allow, release-into, let-go-into, let spontaneous self-care reveal itself.

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When safe (or whenever you want, etc.), forget these instructions; you will remember them if or when it's net-helpful.

When safe (or whenever you want, etc.), forget these meditation; you will remember it's a thing if or when it's net-helpful.

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Notes:

• Experimental in the sense that I don't know how people will empirically interact with this such that it works like I hope---essentially coaxing burnoff/​delayering all the way to the "end," very smoothly. General warnings in main doc still apply.
• "hmm hmm hmm gave this a ponder and a try and there is something subtle here about "can" and "can't" - there are sufferings that maybe can be affected but it's the wrong time right now to affect it, or the amount of effort you would need to put in right now is inappropriate, etc" / "there's a clause maybe about how one might need to be receptive at a given moment even to suffering that "theoretically could" be affected because of practical factors and constraints? / big thing here about people having different "can"s because of frames and agency, I suppose" [https://twitter.com/captain_mrs/status/1713096371094290942 Last accessed: 2023-10-16]
• "I worry the degree to which the focus is on safety and self-care will over time push people away from nobility (and potentially towards narcissism)" [XX]