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Tanha is usually translated as desire or craving but this is wrong and misleading. Tanha is more literally translated as 'fused to' or 'welded to'. It immediately follows the mental moment that you zoom in with the attentional aperture on something. It could be that a flower or an item on the shelf at the supermarket captures your attention, or you turn your head to catch more detail as you pass by an accident on the road. Many hundreds of thousands of such events take place in the course of a single day. With most of them attention then relaxes and makes space for the next thing. But with some small proportion you find the mind doesn't quite 'unclench' from the object or some aspect of the object. This tension aspect is why it is sometimes translated as ‘grasping’ which is closer. Imagine something you aren’t finished with being pulled out of your hand and you tensing your fingers to resist.

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Frank Yang surrendering isn't a choice

it's nature that is snapping with what it wants to snap to. Nature takes the path of least resistance; resistance doesn't happen in nature. The ego is the resistance; suffering is nothing but resistance.

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the way to soften the sense of self

is to see it's a knot in your head, likely literal muscle tension. when you see that it's hard to unsee it, and then the question of "what is this for" goes away, things just happen, there's no this this is for. you're freed from the question – Nick Cammarata

Loch Kelly on see your cloud (emotions, sensations, vision, hearing), and realize you are not the cloud, you are the sky via Guy

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Jake Eaton breaking the chain of reactivity — noticing the gap between stimulus and response — leads to equanimity – The science of Woo

I think one way to view meditation is it’s a series of exercises aimed at becoming very sensitive. your body will naturally do what makes it feel better. by being sensitive enough to feel the cause of suffering (clinging) directly your body will naturally learn to do it less

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Vivid Void: You shouldn't read anything about meditation for the first 5 years that you practice. Just sit, and once a week or so, talk with a teacher or spiritual friend about it.