Sasha Chapin
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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Their wordsThe moment when you realize that you thought drugs were powerful and meditation was mild, but you now realize the opposite is true.
↗Average moments of a long-term meditatorsashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBeing 10% less of an asshole, compounded over years, has tremendous effects.
↗Average moments of a long-term meditatorsashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe more you drop this idea, the happier you are, and the more alien you feel.
↗Average moments of a long-term meditatorsashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIf something less than a transformation of your everyday experience has occurred, there is something more out there.
↗Biting the no-self bulletsashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt's really not obvious that such profound transformations can happen to a mind, and it's really important that this knowledge gets preserved.
↗Biting the no-self bulletsashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAdditionally, making bold declarations about the extremity of contemplative experience is a decent way to keep people talking about meditation, which can be a fairly boring subject.
↗Biting the no-self bulletsashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsThe planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
↗Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsA large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.
↗Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsUnhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.
↗Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 12 days earlier
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A person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.
Their wordsThere's no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psychology.
↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsUseful philosophies disagree with each other sometimes, and this is only an issue if you expect yourself, or reality, to be philosophically consistent.
↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWe freeze into roles because we need some predictability, but we're also changing internally all the time, so our roles eventually become confining.
↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsThe average restaurant in NYC is, at this point, stupidly optimized, backed by wealthy investors, coated in impeccable branding.
↗Utopia is a particular restaurant in Brooklynsashachapin.substack.com
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI think it's one of the most important warnings in contemplative practice, a warning sticker that should go on every single meditation book.
↗Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS.sashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAlmost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
↗Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS.sashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe New Age community, where people pretend to be benevolent Teletubbies, but behind the scenes are as money-hungry, power-seeking, and gossip-spreading as anyone.
↗Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS.sashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 9 days earlier
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Their wordsyou become aware that others are engaging in a similar sorting process, such that the total human network does reward virtue.
↗You can judge a book by its coversashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSure, some skilled sociopaths run amok. But most of those who are crudely, blatantly power-hungry in the long term lose it, or never gain it in the first place.
↗You can judge a book by its coversashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAlmost nobody reaches a position of real respect undeservedly. Famous buffoons don't get respect from the people they really want it from, just sycophants whose praise is meaningless.
↗You can judge a book by its coversashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsHaving a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.
↗Practice Nothing, the most profound of all practicessashachapin.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsNothing practice is psychologically thorough: all of your stuff will come up, in an order not determined by you.
↗Practice Nothing, the most profound of all practicessashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut it ought to feel good-like an engaging encounter with the mystery of being, not like a chore.
↗Practice Nothing, the most profound of all practicessashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece