Most recent public comments by Jean Goodwin https://nowcomment.com/users/98536 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2408021 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2408021 And lo, it appeared to me: option option alt option alt option alt option alt option alt DELETE command: shift! return enter, and return Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:19:15 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2380561 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2380561 3. Decomposition with breathing is a complete waste of your time. Because truth lies in overarching tradition. By taking you away from happy labor of self-flagellating quest for perfection, it is a conspiracy of material Eros. This is your last chance. 2. Decomposition with breathing is a complete waste of your time. Because truth lies in overarching tradition. By taking you away from happy labor of self-flagellating quest for perfection, it is a conspiracy of material Eros. This is your last chance. 1. This is your second warning? Decomposition with breathing is rich in results for the person and is of benefit to society? Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:59:05 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2380538 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2380538 What does it mean to "be on the side of the living"? Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:33:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2380537 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2380537 This sentence has become more modest from a more flamboyant version--maybe from something like "experience deep connection." The old version had the advantage of being a restful alternative to the Laruellean endless negation. Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:10:41 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2360067 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2360067 AS comments: "oscillation" is binary--like a pendulum swinging back and forth. Is thought like that? Or is it a quantum frenetic activity, things popping into existence, zapping about, popping out. GW comments: As in breathing, or in Hindu cosmology. KS: "Spanda is the original, primordial subtle vibration that arises from the dynamic interplay of the passive and the creative polarizations of the Absolute, and that by unfolding itself into the energetic process of differentiation bringing forth the whole of creation.” Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:28:09 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2360064 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2360064 Discussion, 1 March: has nice sense of emptying, but also less usefully of eliminating, getting rid of, i.e., purifying. Perhaps--"rendering"? Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:50:26 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2337373 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2337373 In this section, some of the instructions stress an action the contemplator is doing: knowing obsesrving connecting/letting go But other instructions refer to states: aware (of) (twice) sensitive to cognizant (?) of So are we doing something, or being something? Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:09:06 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2307024 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2307024 AD proposes that we should all roll our eyes in disbelief, perhaps here or at regular intervals during the ritual. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:07:58 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2307002 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2307002 GW suggests. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:00:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306999 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306999 GW: From alchemy--nigredo [?]. JG: Ordinarily, meditation is meant to compose the self. Everything nice and settled. In its place. Not this practice--this practice dis-composes. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:58:06 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306920 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306920 But like many sutras, this one also promises health, wealth, happiness, sons, safe journeys and all the other things we want Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:43:31 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306919 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306919 AD suggested "drive." As in the drive that is driving you to the cushion. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:00:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306916 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306916 GW Everyone is always deciding what the human is, how they should think, act, speak. The ‘stranger’ names a kind of subject that resists such capture that is constantly going on all around them. As you start living in this manner, you become estranged from…Buddhism, Democratic Party, other people in your milieu who attach to these things. But you are still there. ML: following Hegel, the small-world is what resists or is recalcitrant against the World. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:39:44 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306913 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306913 GW: The cap-World is...constructed. AD objects: but we cannot have unmediated experience of the real world. GW: Yes. There is no outside of subjectivity, world-view, ideology, VIEW. The point is then to construct the a subject (etc.) explicitly. AD: So the point is to resist others' constructions, but to assert one's own. Consciously. Intelligently. GW: That is resisting alienating representations. AS: so there is no non-alienating representation. GW: They are alienating if they are alienating *of your position*. AD: Yes, even an anarchist system can harden. GW: Resisting--even this text and practice Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:38:53 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306896 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2306896 ML: following Hegel, the small-world is what resists or is recalcitrant against the World. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:31:51 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2260396 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2260396 "Emotion" seems a bit blunt, plus it's just one word, breaking the pattern of two word objects. Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:00:07 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2260394 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247730?scroll_to=2260394 It would be useful to provide a rationale underlying these five foci. Maybe the five skandhas?--but not in a clearly recognizable form. Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:00:07 -0500