Mastodawn

out of tonight’s #meditation ...

there’s a recurring lesson … that meditation these days is not so much about how I am to have a certain experience …

and more about how the sense of “I” is a certain experience … already

Not sure how well I’ll be able to put this, but in tonight’s #meditation there was a wholesome sense that it’s not about me figuring out something. Rather, it’s increasingly about what “figuring out” is — as in, what “me figuring out” is an expression of and what it's made of.

Put another way — meditation is increasingly an exercise in allowing a more direct appreciation of the mechanics of experience.

bodhidave Jul 18

“How does a mind* best appreciate what’s truly going on?”

Is that a philosophical question? Psychological? Spiritual?

Those fields, those conceptual frameworks, all come later.

What matters is participating appreciatively in the living truth that there’s a miracle going on. There really is. And we’re its expression.

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*and/or heart

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bodhidave Jul 16

2.2

But increasingly for me, and I've been at this a while, meditation is realized as a matter of the way things are.

And not just practicing the way things are, and not just letting things be the way they are.

But more like the way things are is the practice — it is what does the practice.

bodhidave Jul 16

1.2

Was a long day and I'm a tired fellow. But wanted to offer this less-than-fully-formed expression of #meditation practice.

I feel there can be lots of esoteric-sounding wording — like Zen's "practicing suchness" — and that's largely a function of the fact such practice isn't so much in words.

bodhidave Jul 12

Practicing #meditation I'm finding* is like shifting into a slower gear, not so much just to slow down, but to help us appreciate what gear we're in when we're not meditating.

❤️ ⚙️

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* after 50-some years at it :)

bodhidave Jul 11

Michael K Jul 10

Spectacular photography.

“Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects“

“As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/?gift=s5hYL9bpoE1-WDl3fVwmBMjsRydyrhrdOpCtnLFlGwk

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Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects

As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.

The Atlantic

bodhidave Jul 11

As I practice #meditation these days it’s ever less a matter of me figuring out something, and more a process that's along the lines of — the event which is, or the event which presents as, “me" participating in, and allowing an embrace from, and being an expression of, the event which is everything.

bodhidave Jul 10

In tonight's #meditation I was reminded how, for me, being silent is a largely instrumental thing: the point isn't so much the silence as it is how going thru the silence affords us an enhanced appreciation of *everything* — silent or not.

Put another way — what's key about being silent is the *being.*

bodhidave Jul 4

happy fourth, everyone

my brother, James, today singing "Peggy-O"

he's part of the #Asheville Grateful Dead cover-band, "Phuncle Sam"

academia.edu webpage	http://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins
"the side view" mindfulness piece	https://thesideview.co/journal/deconstructing-mindfulness/
YouTube on the jhānas (30 min)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XjEGeStJfY