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Slow Days

With a single thought, a whole world arises.

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Sometimes it feels good, sometimes it feels unpleasant.

When awareness settles and comes to a stop,
if one does not follow thoughts or discriminations,
there is nothing there—
and yet, it is alive.

Originally, this observing awareness has always been present.

Because of learned thinking, we assume that awakening must involve some grand event or extraordinary experience.
But that, too, is clearly just another thought—another discrimination.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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