u/Brazilianguy95

exerpt from the amazing book Touching Enlightment by Reginald Ray:

"Most of us, however, will deliberately turn our attention away from the unpleasant tensing and tightening. We will shut out our body's feeling and retreat into our conceptual thinking process. Will Johnson, in his writing on the posture of medita-tion, has noticed this critical movement.
Our way of shutting
out our body and its discomfort is, in fact, by retreating into our obsessive thinking process. The more we shut out our body, the more we retreat into thinking. The intensity of our compulsive thinking is in direct proportion to the extent that we are unwilling to experience our body in a full and direct way. We have, in fact, dissociated from it.
This final stage, where we are more or less entirely disconnected from our bodies, where we are physically numb and not even aware of our numbness, is the state in which many of us modern people live. Once we have retreated so fully from our somatic life and our physical embodiment, about the only thing that will help us reverse our direction is the kind of somatic crisis described above: we fall ill, experience some injury, or are overwhelmed with come other uncontrollable somatic situation A that point, we have little choice but to take seriously the message the body is sending us."

this exerpt from the book Touching Enlightment by Reginald Ray:

"Most of us, however, will deliberately turn our attention away from the unpleasant tensing and tightening. We will shut out our body's feeling and retreat into our conceptual thinking process. Will Johnson, in his writing on the posture of medita-tion, has noticed this critical movement.
Our way of shutting
out our body and its discomfort is, in fact, by retreating into our obsessive thinking process. The more we shut out our body, the more we retreat into thinking. The intensity of our compulsive thinking is in direct proportion to the extent that we are unwilling to experience our body in a full and direct way. We have, in fact, dissociated from it.
This final stage, where we are more or less entirely disconnected from our bodies, where we are physically numb and not even aware of our numbness, is the state in which many of us modern people live. Once we have retreated so fully from our somatic life and our physical embodiment, about the only thing that will help us reverse our direction is the kind of somatic crisis described above: we fall ill, experience some injury, or are overwhelmed with come other uncontrollable somatic situation A that point, we have little choice but to take seriously the message the body is sending us."

There's always the moment where I know I'm getting into the jhanas and then I come back to the mind, when I try breathing into the body seems like a lot of mental workout and i get exhausted... Question is, how does this surrender take place more easily? I know all the theories, I know what I have "to do" (which is actually quit trying to do anything) yet the mind attacks as soon as i'm in the almost surrendered state. How to go about this?

Eu acho que independente do viés politico que você comunga se voce apoiar que pessoas trabalhem 6 dias e folguem apenas 1, você é um mau caráter ou porque você nunca trabalhou na vida, ou os dois.

Eu nunca trabalhei na escala 6x1, e nunca trabalhei em shopping ou com atendimento ao público, mas imagina quem faz isso, e nas folgas apenas têm tempo para descansar.

Isso limita a pessoa de tanta coisa, de estudar, de ter acesso à cultura, se consumir, de viajar.

Enfim, o que eu proponho com esse post é duas coisas, coloquem a mão na consciência se você apoia isso, você apoia só porque boa parcela da direita apoia, ou você apoia pq... bom, você é a favor da ampla exploração da mão de obra (logo um mau caráter) e 2. Você pode ser de direita ou de esquerda ou whatever, mas escolham bem quem você vai votar para deputado e senador, porque boa parte desses eleitos votaram contra ontem.