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You have never practiced

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Yet your body has begun to respond

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A viewer sent me a private message

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Here is the gist

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He had never formally practiced

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He had never meditated sitting down

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He had never learned meditation

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But lately his body felt strange sensations

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For example

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His palms would inexplicably feel hot and numb

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Sometimes a tingling rush climbed up his back

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Something else confused him even more

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His emotions seemed to be growing flatter

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It was not repression

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There were simply no real waves anymore

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Movies used to make him sob

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Now he just feels even

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Yet at the same time

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Very small things

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Like a flower blooming by the road

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Or wind moving through leaves

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Would suddenly stop him in his tracks

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As if something had struck him

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He asked me

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Is this what people call outward manifestation

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Hello

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Hello everyone

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I am Wang Lijie

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What this viewer described

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Goes much deeper than he realizes

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He used the term outward manifestation

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It is a fascinating term

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That is where we will begin today

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Let me ask you a question

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Can you feel your socks right now

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Before I asked

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You barely noticed anything on your feet

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But your feet were wearing socks all along

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So where did that sensation go

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It did not disappear

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Your brain actively screened it out

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Your brain decided

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The feeling of your socks was unimportant

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And not worth your attention

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So it intercepted that information

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You never even knew the interception happened

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All right

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Remember that feeling

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Because I am about to tell you something

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That may change how you understand perception

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Your brain

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At this very moment

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Is doing something you know nothing about

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It is furiously deleting information

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In 2024 Caltech

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Published a paper in the journal Neuron

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With a striking calculation

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Our sensory systems

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Eyes ears skin nose and tongue

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Send roughly one billion bits to the brain each second

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One billion

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Your conscious mind

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What you can actually perceive

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Think about and process

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Handles only about ten bits per second

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Did you hear that

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One billion come in

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You see ten

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What does that mean

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Your brain contains an incredibly powerful filter

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Every second it makes a decision for you

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Among those billion pieces of information

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Which ten deserve your awareness

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Everything else is blocked

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And deleted

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You never know it existed

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You think you see the world

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You see the world your brain permits you to see

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How does this filter work

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It does not delete at random

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It uses a highly refined set of criteria

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Built throughout your life

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From every experience trauma belief and habit

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Layered together with your cultural background

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What matters

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What does not matter

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What deserves attention

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What can be ignored

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These rules became your brains default settings

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You have never examined them

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Yet they decide for you every second

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All right

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Now comes the question

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What if the filters threshold changes

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What if it begins to loosen

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Information once blocked

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Begins to leak through

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You suddenly sense things you could not sense before

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Temperature changes in your palms

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Energy moving through your back

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Subtle vibrations in the air

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Tiny shifts in the emotional field

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These signals were always there

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They are not new

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Your filter

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Allowed them through for the first time

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That is what this viewer is experiencing

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So why did the filter loosen

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In neuroscience

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There is a concept called sensory gating

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The brains prefilter for sensory information

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A study in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found

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Long term meditators had lower sensory gating thresholds

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Their prestimulus alpha power was lower

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Meaning that before information even arrived

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Their preset filtering was already weaker

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The meditators brains

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Allowed more raw information into awareness

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But this viewer said he had never meditated

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So how did his filter loosen

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This is todays most interesting part

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Meditation is one way to lower the threshold

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It is not the only way

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Several conditions can produce the same effect

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The first

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Intense metacognitive activity

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Some people never meditate formally

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But they maintain one long term habit

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They observe their own thinking

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They ask themselves

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Why am I thinking this

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Where did this reaction come from

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What assumption lies beneath this thought

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This habit of mind

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Is called metacognition in cognitive science

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It is essentially informal insight practice

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You do not need a meditation cushion for it

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You can do it on the subway

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These people share another trait

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A natural curiosity about their emotional reactions

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Other people simply get angry

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When they get angry part of them also watches

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I am angry

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That observing attention

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Is fine tuning the filter

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Day after day

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Those adjustments become substantial

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Major shocks in life

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Bereavement illness career collapse or a broken relationship

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These events can violently tear open your mental framework

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What once mattered suddenly stops mattering

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What you never noticed becomes vividly clear

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This is not mysticism

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The brains priority system has been reset

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The old filtering rules have failed

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New ones are not yet fully established

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A window opens between them

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And previously blocked information floods in

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Prolonged information deprivation

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Some people pass through a period of extreme quiet

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The brain automatically lowers its filtering threshold

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To maintain a minimum level of input

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Like staying a long time in an extremely quiet room

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You begin to hear your own heartbeat

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And blood flowing past your ears

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Those sounds were always there

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One many people would not expect

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Reading deeply in philosophy psychology and consciousness studies

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You think you are only gaining knowledge

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Each time you encounter a new conceptual framework

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After reading the Buddhist teaching of no self

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Your filtering around the self loosens a little

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After reading about the observer effect in quantum mechanics

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Your filtering around certainty loosens a little

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Knowledge is more than information

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It is a tool for adjusting the filter

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And the filters settings quietly change

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That is why some people keep reading philosophy

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Then suddenly feel physical reactions

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There is no magic in the books

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Your cognitive framework has been reorganized

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Information once blocked by it is now exposed

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So let us return to that viewer

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He may have experienced one or several of these conditions

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Lowering his sensory gating threshold

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The warmth in his palms and tingling in his back

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His sudden sensitivity to tiny things

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Were signals previously filtered out

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That consciousness can now receive

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He asked whether this was outward manifestation

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I think the term is remarkably precise

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But we need one important distinction

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In many peoples understanding

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There is a related concept called manifestation

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You hold something in your mind

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Then it becomes real

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The core of that concept is output

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Your consciousness projects outward

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Trying to influence reality

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But that is not what this viewer described

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He is not projecting anything outward

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He is receiving

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Signals he could not receive before

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Can now reach him

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If manifestation is consciousness output channel

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Then outward manifestation is its input channel

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The directions are completely opposite

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One tries to write into the world

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The other begins to read the world

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Imagine it as a radio

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Manifestation is like broadcasting through a microphone

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Trying to make the world hear your voice

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Outward manifestation is like adjusting the frequency

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And finding stations you had never heard before

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Those stations did not just begin broadcasting

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They were always on the air

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Your receiving range became wider

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Why does this distinction matter

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Because the two require opposite responses

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If you are practicing manifestation

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You need focused and strengthened intention

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But if you are experiencing outward manifestation

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You need the exact opposite

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You need relaxation and observation

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Without attachment

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Buddhism classifies these phenomena systematically

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In the meditation tradition

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When practitioners reach a certain depth

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Their bodies may produce certain responses

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Known as the eight tactile sensations

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Movement itching lightness heaviness cold warmth roughness smoothness

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These accompany the early stages of meditative absorption

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Even subtler sensations may appear

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Collectively called the merits of touch

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But Buddhisms attitude toward them is fascinating

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It does not call them good

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They are scenery along the road

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Not the destination

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The Shurangama Sutra gives a famous warning

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Called the fifty skandha demons

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It describes fifty unusual experiences during practice

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From strange bodily sensations to extraordinary mental states

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Covering nearly every spiritual experience imaginable

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Each one ends with the same line

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Do not interpret it as attainment

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Do not treat these experiences as proof of enlightenment

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Why are those words so important

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Because the brain has a very cunning tendency

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When the filter loosens

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And new information pours in

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The brain instinctively labels it

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It says

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This must be something extraordinary

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I must be special

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I may be awakening

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This act of labeling

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Is called imagined attachment in Yogacara

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It adds nonexistent meaning onto a real experience

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Those bodily sensations are real

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Your palms really are warming

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Your back really is tingling

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That flower really opens a dimension you never saw before

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These are dependently arisen phenomena

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Real events arising through causes and conditions

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But if you add a story to those real experiences

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I am awakening I have powers I am different

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That story is imagined attachment

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Your brain has placed an old filter over new information

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The irony is

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If you actually do this

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Your filter tightens again

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Because the story becomes a new selection rule

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It makes you notice only information supporting the story

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And ignore everything that does not

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You think you are progressing

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But you are closing yourself in more elegantly

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I have seen many examples

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Some people begin feeling bodily sensations

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Then immediately seek spiritual courses

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And masters to validate them

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They join spiritual communities

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And rapidly build a whole awakening narrative

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Even their way of speaking changes

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They begin speaking with an air of superiority

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About levels of consciousness vibrations and dimensions

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What began as healthy perceptual openness

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Becomes a taller castle built by the ego

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This is the core mechanism behind the fifty skandha demons

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The demon does not come from outside

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You create it yourself

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The filter loosens

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New experiences arrive

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The ego sees them

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What a treasure

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Perfect for decorating my identity

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So a new filter is installed

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Thicker than the old one

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Then what is the right response

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Perhaps right is not quite the word

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Let me share my own experience and understanding

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I have spent over a decade in investing

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Investing has a deeply counterintuitive rule

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When the market gives you a signal

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The key is not to act immediately

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But first understand the signals source and nature

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Is it noise or a signal

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A short term fluctuation or a trend reversal

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The faster you rush to define it

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The more likely you are to misread it

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The same is true of consciousness

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When your body begins feeling unfamiliar sensations

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The wisest response is not to define use or amplify them

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Nor to fear suppress or deny them

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Instead become a trained observer

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And simply watch

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Have you tried observing without any judgment

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The temperature changes in your own palm

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Do not ask why it is warming

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Do not wonder what it means

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Do not expect it to intensify

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And do not try to stop it

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Simply observe

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If you can do that

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You will discover something remarkable

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First

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The sensation changes

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You think it is constant

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But it is always moving

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Warm one moment cool the next

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Strong one moment weak the next

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In your palm then suddenly at your fingertips

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You think it is a thing

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But it is actually a process

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A process arising and passing each moment

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Buddhism calls this impermanence

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Here you do not need to believe the concept

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You can verify it directly in your own palm

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Then you discover something deeper

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The observation itself

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Is far more interesting than the observed phenomenon

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The you that can observe without judgment

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Who exactly is it

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It is not your brain

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Because the brain keeps labeling

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It is not your emotions

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Because your emotions have grown quiet

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It is not your body

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Because the body is being observed

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The one observing all of this

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Has no name

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No shape

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No history

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And needs no special experience to prove it exists

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It has always been there

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Your filter was simply too busy

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Processing ten pieces out of a billion

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To ever notice it

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Now the filter has loosened a little

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And you have a chance to glimpse it

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There is also a practical issue to discuss

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Some people undergoing these perceptual changes

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Experience mild anxiety

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Because the world suddenly feels different

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Their stable mental framework begins to loosen

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That does not always feel comfortable

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Especially when nobody around you understands

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You may wonder whether something is wrong

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Here is what I want to say

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If these sensations do not seriously disrupt daily life

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Do not cause insomnia

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Do not prevent you from working

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And do not cause delusions or hallucinations

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It is probably a normal adjustment in perceptual threshold

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You do not need to panic

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Or become excited

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But if normal functioning is being affected

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Please see a qualified doctor

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Lowered perceptual thresholds and neurological problems

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Can look similar on the surface

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Professional judgment is necessary

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That is not cowardice

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It is taking responsibility for yourself

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Back to the central question

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What exactly is this viewers outward manifestation

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I do not think it is a supernatural ability

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Or a sign of spiritual awakening

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The threshold of the brains filter has simply changed

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Allowing more raw information into awareness

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That is all

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But those words that is all

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Are already profound enough

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Because they force a fundamental question

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You think you have perceived the whole world

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But you never have

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What you perceive

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Has always been carefully selected by your brain

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One fragment in a hundred million

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And now

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There are a few more fragments

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How will you treat that little bit more

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Explain it through your old framework

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And turn it into another story

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Or simply let it remain

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And see where it takes you

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I choose the latter

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Do not name it

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Do not frame it

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Let it reveal itself

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Sometimes nothing happens

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Sometimes subtle sensations rise and disappear

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Like sitting beside a river watching the current

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You do not need to catch a single drop

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Or make the river stop

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Just watch it flow

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But that is only my choice

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Not advice

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After all

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I am also just feeling for stones in the river

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What do you feel

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Have you experienced anything similar

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Did it arise during a particular stage of life

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Or simply begin one day

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Share your experience in the comments

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I am curious

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I am Wang Lijie

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See you next time