Reading article on Spacious Freedom. vividness.live/2012/06/21/spa… I've been thinking a lot about emotions lately from going to @DougTataryn's Bio-Emotive workshop. Lots of profound resonance there with Aro/Dzogchen: > Self-liberation means allowing emotional energy to be as it is.
Feeling emotions fully vs stripping them of meaning
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Reading this 👇 & wondering if more accurate than "stripped of meaning" would be "stripped of implication". Wanting to ask @Meaningness about this because language here seems important and allowing the meaningness of emotion seems 💗as long as it doesn't say "therefore!"
(oh man, lost 5 tweets here 😕 ...continuing roughly from memory)
Maybe my issues is with "stripped" actually. In doing the Bio-Emotive work, I've been learning how profoundly important it is to really allow the meanings that are present in the feelings, rather than stripping them away. But then, once truly felt, the old meanings loosen.
To be clear: I'm assuming Dave Chapman groks this. I'm just inquiring about the precision of the phrasing. I love how this Aro page puts it: > "When we allow our emotional realm to be as it is, we are freed to experience the texture of life directly." — arobuddhism.org/community/an-u…
"I endeavor to accept all of my feelings, including the feeling of "I can't accept any of my feelings"!"
Seems to be the emotional lens on the dzogchen paradox: I am already enlightened, including in moments when I'm struggling to become enlightened & hating every bit of it. Looking back, I'll see clearly that I was enlightened in those moments too. (I've tasted this, I think!)