the dao of development
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July 29th, 2021
- > And part of the way you get to this thing involves like, practices, like there are times when you do like awareness kind of meditation, there are times when you do other weirder practices I don't know about, there was like martial arts practices and stuff like that. But you're not doing practices literally all the time. You're like doing practices, and also just living your life. And I think there's something good about that distinction.
- Upstart had a thing like this in March 2019
- I forget what the articulation of it was exactly but it was something like "the thing you're doing as your animal creature is just doing what feels good to you and the people around you" which points at a kind of effortless just-live-your-life quality (and reminds me now of both "let the soft animal of your body love what it loves" and of deQuincy's description of preconquest cultures)
- and then there's simultaneously an anthropological perspective from which you might notice patterns in what seems to be working and not working, and seek to untangle those, but even as you're doing that, it still doesn't involve trying