daniel brottman 🪷

wait lmao nevermind i tweet 3294863984 times a month i ain't reading all these

mindfulness of mind go BRRRRRR

i'm gonna do a thing where i go thru my last year of tweets and repost the bangers here

have enough practices on my plate for now haha - thank you though!

nope! all i know about this is andrew holocek teaches it

such a great book!

heehee :)

meditation wrapped, 2024 kinda practiced a lot this year!

🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️MEDITATION WRAPPED, 2024🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️

hours: kind of a lot actually
top hindrances: doubt, aversion
top techniques: breath, open awareness (so normie)
you were in the top 0.1% for: people who read "tantra illuminated" while at a theravadin monastery

open.substack.com/pub/danielbr...

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that's a nice idea

I think I might just embrace the twitter

idk, I kinda doubt it, at least along my broader circle. we'll see

too lazy to copy paste what i just tweeted on twitter so instead i'm writing this to complain. bsky posters i do not know how to solve this problem - i ain't leaving twitter any time soon, and i always run out of steam to keep crossposting. feels doomed

still thinking about this

hundo p I recommend it

-more patience and agendalessness, which includes willingness to move, to change energies, as well as comfort with less activity

-better tuned to the subtleties of what keeps bodies physically in contact, how gravity, friction, and leverage interact

-more ability to be attuned to partner and myself in terms of desires and intentions

-more trust that i can take care of myself and my partner can take care of herself

-more natural sense of when bodies organically want to change positions

delighted to share that i got to have a hot makeout sesh tonight and contact improv has in fact made me better at it
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I can't imagine having a tweet thought that was only appropriate for one or the other, unless it's like this one where i’m tweeting about bsky

thank you hahaha :)

beautiful. i love that you asked yourself that question

but anyway these last several tweets are just caveats. the point of this thread is organize concepts in a way that helps me get in touch with simple, authentic, earnest, wholesome, embodied, genuine, desire

(in regards to awakening, i don't think the intellect is only this trap to be dodged; it is also a tool that has beneficial use, and a tool we cannot avoid using)

much easier to just say "awakening will fix it, i just need to awaken." or, of course, to just believe one can keep suffering at bay through means of control, by domination of conditions. ultimately these are the same strategy - awakening becomes imagined as a means of control

the trick is that the intellect can get ahead of the game and try to answer the genuine questions without actually facing them. why allow my heart to be torn open, humbled, confused, to lie naked upon the fire and the ice?

and i think they're within all humans actually, and are often awoken upon significant enough contact with suffering

this said, i do believe that the genuine wants that lead a human being into the kind of sincere inquiry that in turn leads to awakening are certainly in my system; i have seen them arise spontaneously and also systematically nourished them

can i trust that the *truly* OPEN-ENDED, IMPARTIAL, VULNERABLE, HUMBLE, EARNEST, SINCERE engagement with this question will be ok? will, in fact, *lead* me to what it is that i actually want?

even if i don't end up "wanting awakening?"

what is it that i actually want?

i posted the 5 recollections today as
@wystantbs.bsky.social
reminded me of them yesterday. they are skillful thoughts that i would describe as traditionally helping nourish the actual WANT to be free, not the SHOULD