I would love to hear the 5-10 most engaging, impactful, and true words that you associate with this work. Please share them in the comments! If you want to share more please do. Thanks in advance for your time! Brendan

@Corentin G has this week's Consciousness Weekly lesson. You can find this week's practice here: https://chenghsin.link/skool/cw

I'm in a situation that has activated my mind and survival (fear) since June. It has been challenging as the sensations and thoughts have been so strong. I have had to just be with them as is - no truth seeking or what they are has been possible, and in this situation I would just have used it to get rid of the uncomfortable sensations, not as an honest search for it. Two insights have come. 1) I could be calm and do my life in a sane way even though the situation is regarded negative. Why is it that I have to fall apart because of a situation? I could have the situation and be whatever I want - the situation is the same if I'm this or that. Before I could feel guilty for having a laugh or going out for a coffee - as if we were supposed to just be home suffering. 2) On the same theme, I was brushing my teeth and it dawned on me that I brushed my teeth before this happened, I will do it during and after it. The trees was standing there before, they stand there now and they will stand there afterwards. As everything else mundane that is going on every day. Nothing changes. I had a sense of another perspective and got deeply calm. I'm going back and forth, but not as intensely and I can work on what stuff is now. A positive thing is that it has forced me to let go of putting value on things that I held strong before, to open up. I will just add that we are doing what needs to be done practically for the situation. Thank you for letting me share and for reading.

I was riding my bike today and along came an insight: Nothing needs to move, in order for biological life to exist as something. Contemplations: What is that something that appears to move as if on their own volition? (Biological) What is that something that doesn't appear to move i.e. not alive? (Physical 'inanimate' objects) Biological life seems to need to consume other biological life with lesser complexity. Or at least join with it, albeit, temporarily to persist, to continue. Creatures also seem to consume and expel air and water in a way they consume and expel other creatures. Possibly essential ingredients, to move to navigate. Creatures don't consume rocks but tend to mould its form from the earth. How does an eye even get to exist? What is light? A biological ability to move better? To navigate better? To survive better? How about feet? How can feet get to exist? How about a brain? A human brain? A human life? Language? Culture? A history? A life story? More work!... and upcoming workshops. I'm getting excited 😁 Cheers, RD

For a few days I've been feeling like I'm rushing this one design project because I was feeling it was stopping me from doing more important work. Also I was feeling it was hard to prioritise what to contemplate or work on. And every day I would see new distinctions or principles that I wanted to work on. But they were just too much. And today I was watching this guy explaining some frame control principle and he said " Just get it now because soon I won't be teaching this" And it just hit me rushing = postponing. And a question arised "why just not get it all now" And I got some of it. I noticed before I assumed I need a proccess or a way to get things. (For a few weeks also I have been playing with the idea of directness how to do something in 0 steps) Now weirdly I see how you can "get to experience" something before you even understand what it is and learn It later. Also there is the idea of time. Anything to be experienced can only be now getting it can only be now. So just need to get it now. You can never get something as a result of a process as the process itself is only a pointer. And I'm not talking about getting it in 1 step. I'm talking about getting it in no steps. And the experience is itself direct it has no steps or concepts. What is your experience of such matters? P.S. I didn't get anything in particular, but also it wasn't nothing. So really I don't know if I got anything at all.