Meditation 102 – Intuition pumps

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This list exist to read it and get enlightenment, ok I am improving it. This probably after stint in Meditation 101

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From 0 meditation to 50 days of retreat in one year: what I wish I knew

Tanha Romeo Stevens

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.

Guy : “Tanha is the cause of Dukkha” is such an insane sentence.

I literally cannot believe it. Some guy figured out the cause of ALL suffering 2500 years ago and gave you a recipe to solve it. Developed a first-person science 2000 years before the west developed 3rd person science

[Meditation advice by Sasha Chapin ](https://www.pawel.world/advice-by-1527d72d064080ef9b51c16e186b8cc1)

Frank Yang nature that is snapping with what it wants to snap to

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.

Meditation 101 (start here)