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As Hard Facts Hit the Horizon · Recognize Your Conditioning ▹

Recognize the truth in whatever that hits your horizon. Negative reaction – observe your conditions. Positive reaction – observe your conditions. Most of it is baseline okay. Equanimity. Most of your suffering, that claustrophobic churn in your mind, is entirely avoidable. Interact with the world as it is. Raw — not warped to match your ideas. Play your roles, fulfill your duties. No attachment to the outcomes. It'll be okay at the end of the day. Keep it real. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

The Negative Teaching of Life · Face Your Truths & Conditions ▹

Every low tide and season of gloom. Every shock and jolt and catastrophe. These teach you something about what is. They show you your reactivity. They show you where you cling, how you condition yourself. Study it all. In facing it, you reflect on the truth of yourself — and the ideas that condition you. Take it as it comes. Shadows and light, sunshine and downpours. Let presence and absence teach you of the fullness of what you actually are — of what reality is. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Chasing the Ideas of Others · How Our Satisfaction Is Lost ▹

So there you have your own ideas of what you should have — to be at ease, at peace, satisfied. Then you absorb narratives from the world, from others. You should have this, you should have that — otherwise it's not good enough. We're chasing an image in their eyes. Even when we give to others, if nobody noticed, if it wasn't recognized, we remain dissatisfied by our actions. We're constructing and curating identities instead of dealing with the real needs of life. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Wants vs. Needs vs. Ideas · How You Cancel Satisfaction ▹

Wants versus needs. Your physical body. Shelter from the elements and wildlife. A diet with well-rounded nutrients. But when ideas of more, of luxury and privilege, are fixed in our heads – what we want, what we deserve – nothing less will do. Then emotional needs. Feeling safe and at peace, being cared for, belonging. But we wish to be loved in a particular way, even adored, and if we don't get that, then we're sad. Our happiness and satisfaction is corroded by our ideas. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Chances Are Life is Confusing When Your Frames Are Warped ▹

So much of our trouble in understanding others is a framing problem. Things in themselves are typically not super complicated. We look at them from all sorts of weird angles. You set your expectations. You boot up your prejudice. You prime all your fears and hopes — and this becomes the looking glass of interpretation. Why don't you just look at what is — as it is — and take it from there? See where that takes you. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Plates of Hidden Daily Wisdom · Passages of Nature Ignored ▹

Our lives are full of little rites of passage. Openings for thorough mindfulness — for the growth of wisdom and integration. Not just weddings and funerals. From the simplest things, like the food we eat and the meals we share. Pause and reflect on the origins, the journeys, and the terminals of all that is. The journey of the carrot and the farmer. It's all there — on your plate as the journey's tail. Witness all of life with eyes of wisdom. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Why Must We Avoid Suffering? · The Struggle Makes Us Whole ▹

Every lack, every absence, every shortcoming, every failure — there to lead you toward your fullness. If only you can look at it as it is. Accept, acknowledge, recognize the lessons you face. Instead of trying to avoid, escape, bypass, battle them. Every low tide and season of gloom, every shock and jolt and catastrophe. These teach you something about what is — they show you your reactivity. Embrace it. Study it all. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Consumed By Our Ideas vs. What We Actually Need in Life ▹

How thin the connection between what we have, what is, and our happiness and satisfaction. It has more to do with our ideas than what actually is. Chasing the attainment of ideas for satisfaction is a moving goalpost. We're in a never-ending tunnel. Endless dead ends — and then the chase for another thing. Let's consider: Wants versus needs. We're consumed by our worries over ideas. We absorb narratives from others. How about getting back to the basics? 🍃Have You Considered? ▹