High-detachment is great!...for certain situation for certain times. I really enjoy Rob Burbea’s “Seeing That Frees” meta-framework regarding meditation techniques/ viewpoints: they are tools to be picked up and put down. If viewing the world in complete acceptance helps your suffering in that moment, then great! But you wouldn’t want to do this all the time; eating and basic hygiene are actions of non-acceptance at a certain conceptual level. Same with impermanence and no-self. Your math friend may be open to that book recommendation.
TurnTrout argues that Tsuyoku Naritai is not it, and maybe he is right. I do not know what the correct emotion feels like, but I think maybe DF knew.
I’ve had a similar experience with feeling Tsuyoku Naritai, but it being a temporary state (a few hours or days at a time maybe). I’m currently extremely interested in putting on different mindsets/perspectives for different purposes. An example is purposely being low-energy for sleeping and high-energy for waking up (as in purposely cultivating a “low-energy” mindset and having a TAP to tune into that mindset when you’re trying to sleep). In this case, Tsuyoku Naritai may be good for lighting the fire for a day or two to get good habits started. But I think people may use unnecessary muscles when tuning into this mindset, causing it to be tense, head-ache inducing, and aversive.
This is speculation though, but I am, again, very interested in this topic and discussing it more. Feel free to dm me as well if you’d like to chat or call.
High-detachment is great!...for certain situation for certain times. I really enjoy Rob Burbea’s “Seeing That Frees” meta-framework regarding meditation techniques/ viewpoints: they are tools to be picked up and put down. If viewing the world in complete acceptance helps your suffering in that moment, then great! But you wouldn’t want to do this all the time; eating and basic hygiene are actions of non-acceptance at a certain conceptual level. Same with impermanence and no-self. Your math friend may be open to that book recommendation.
I’ve had a similar experience with feeling Tsuyoku Naritai, but it being a temporary state (a few hours or days at a time maybe). I’m currently extremely interested in putting on different mindsets/perspectives for different purposes. An example is purposely being low-energy for sleeping and high-energy for waking up (as in purposely cultivating a “low-energy” mindset and having a TAP to tune into that mindset when you’re trying to sleep). In this case, Tsuyoku Naritai may be good for lighting the fire for a day or two to get good habits started. But I think people may use unnecessary muscles when tuning into this mindset, causing it to be tense, head-ache inducing, and aversive.
This is speculation though, but I am, again, very interested in this topic and discussing it more. Feel free to dm me as well if you’d like to chat or call.