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The Existential Kink approach to life is absolutely not about denial; it's about fully feeling what's honestly there. So if immense grief and feelings of betrayal are what's there, then go all the way into it, mourn in the most profound ways you can. Wear all black. Make performance art about it. Burn effigies of your betrayers. Whatever you gotta do.
Existential Kink
Carolyn Elliott
The first exercise is, “Breathing in, I know this is an in-breath. Breathing out, I know this is an out-breath.” We recognize the in-breath as an in-breath and the out-breath as an out-breath. It’s easy. When we do that, we bring our attention to the in- and out-breath. We let go of our thinking; we let go of the past, of the future, of our projects. We are only with our breath, and we are free.
In Vipassana, any practice that interferes with the awareness of sensation is harmful, whether it is concentrating on a word or form, or giving attention merely to physical movements of the body or to thoughts arising in the mind. You cannot eradicate suffering unless you go to its source, sensation.
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S. N. Goenka
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