Smile with our whole body.
Smile like a "laughing buddha" (布袋和尚).
Overcome anger and bring "lucks" to everyone's life.

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Dragan Milojević
Tan, you sound like a life coach 😮
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The mystery of life cannot be understood,
Don't try to understand it.
Simply be selfless,
And let the whole movement apprehends.

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Irmina Wrona
Hi John, thank you for sharing. Great contemplation thought for today 💎💓
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Mr. RDT
"See friend.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve.
But a reality to experience.
A process that cannot be understood by stopping it.
We must move with the flow of the process.
We must join it. We must float with it.
Let it go. Let it go."
a quote from the "Dune" movie (based on an earlier quote from the books)
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Mr. RDT which book?
Mr. RDT
John Tan first book in the "Dune" sci-fi/fantasy series by Frank Herbert. The author was into Buddhadharma and took vows in Zen tradition at some point in his life.
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Geovani Geo
See the sharpness of impersonal existence.
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    • Don't use ur mind to reason urself out of attachments.
      Use ur breath and body to let go of attachments.

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      Mr. RDT
      This is somatic approach. Very powerful and transforming. There is also cognitive-behavioral methodology.
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      John Tan
      Mr. RDT indeed. In fact that is key post anatta insight.
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    • Mr. RDT
      John Tan the habitual tendencies are powerful and there is needed skill in applying the correct remedies?

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    • John Tan
      Mr. RDT yes there r.
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    • Jake Casavant
      I see benefits using both reason and somatic approaches in tandem
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      John Tan
      Jake Casavant that is good. But once u sense the energy patterns and the way of opening up ur body, let go of thoughts. Thoughts can be quite energy consuming.
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    • Jake Casavant
      That seems right. I notice at times in meditation that thoughts are *literally* energy consuming, or energy disrupting. At least, 'sticky' thoughts. It's like they catch on the energy flows of the body and get tangled up in them, disrupting them. Not following thoughts, in the other hand, allows the energy flows to attain their natural coherence
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    • John Tan
      Jake Casavant listen to ur body. Feel ur body and breath and sense the way of opening. What our body currently is attuned is more "karmic" than "natural".
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    • Seng Yew Meng
      John Tan Hi John, when you say sense the way of opening - are you referring to the energetic body? Opening is sometime uncomfortable and painful even to the physical body in my experience. Not sure if I am on the same page
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    • John Tan
      Seng Yew Meng can be intially uncomfortable due to accustomed patterns but not necessarily painful imo. What is important is to allow the boby to listen instead of the mind. Let loose ur body, ur mind will also let go. What is important is to put things into perspective and open up our understandings of how to deal with attachments. I m not talking about any energy body system in particular, not getting into energy practices.
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    • Jake Casavant
      John Tan thanks 🙂
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    • Albert Hong
      Thanks for the big wack with the stick!
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    • Anurag Jain
      Reifying the inherent existence of any object, including the body is the root of attachment. Attention to breathing etc.are indirect aids pre-anatta insight.
      Anatta insight cuts all subject (an agent who acts) object (an object to be acted upon) duality and doership. All phenomena are empty appearances. This is their nature and they never deviate from it. So both mind and body are empty appearances. The labels 'mind' and 'body' are merely conventional designations.
      Having said this, one can still be doing yoga or pranayama or sex, or not doing any yoga or pranayama or sex post anatta insight as both are empty appearances.
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    • Mr./Ms. JMB
      when I sit shikantaza and feel breathing it is liberating but then I go about my daily life and the mind dominates. mind resistant to felt sense of being, breathing .
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      John Tan
      Mr./Ms. JMB yes there r too much noises in the head and the whole body-mind balance is upset.
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    • Mr./Ms. JMB
      John Tan it is like learning to breathe as a child would if they were loved
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    • Mr./Ms. PS
      Mr./Ms. JMB That's one of the most incredible descriptions I've ever heard. Thank you for saying that.
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    • Jackson Peterson
      John, the problem is the sense of a self is being imputed to exist, which can be gotten out of attachments by reason or by using breath and body to let go of attachments. No self entity exists, which means the entity that is attempting to become free of attachments is THE illusion. A non-existent self can’t be liberated. There is no entity to realize anatta if anatta is true. 😉🙏

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    • Mr. TJ
      After believing that using the body was the way for my entire path, I recently started thinking that unconscious and subconscious vasanas could compromise the whole project of just using the body and energy practices, that I needed some more mind based practice to deal with the deep unconscious belief systems that were directing the qi behind the scenes (yi dao qi dao) in my meditation and qigong. But now I see this 😅

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      John Tan
      Mr. TJ lol. Yi Dao qi dao is already quite an achievement before the "person" doing "disappears". But yi here is "attention" rather than "reasoning"; more like "sensing" than "intellectualizing". In fact taoism paxis is fully anatta into the natural condition.
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