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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"meditation fundamentals: practicing for a free heart" is BACK for a 2nd cohort! in group sessions and 1:1 coachings, we'll practice a variety of basic meditation techniques and wayfind towards an enjoyable and beneficial daily practice oct 18 - dec 6. tinyurl.com/medfundamentals

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️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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meditation wrapped, 2024

kinda practiced a lot this year!

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I think I might just embrace the twitter

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

-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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

-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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

beautiful. i love that you asked yourself that question

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

(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)

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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?

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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?"

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"i want to get this awakening business out of the way so i can move on with my life" does not embody commitment, but mere obligation

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"i *should* awaken, it will be good for me, i am convinced by those who sing its praises." how is this fuel that could ever lead to a burning need to be free, a practice for the sake of practice, a vow that would extend throughout centuries and lifetimes if given the chance?

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

i write this, ofc, as i confront my own fixation around "awakening," and am forced to admit that it is not an entirely clean motivation. in AoA terms i might say it is (at least in part) a "should" rather than an actual "want" www.artofaccomplishment.com/podcast/want...

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

i don't think it's possible to have "wanting to awaken" as a genuine embodied desire. i think the real motivations that are capable of getting there are more immediate and tangible, like "i need to know the root of suffering" or "i need to know the nature of mind/reality" +

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

i am the owner of my kamma, heir to my kamma, born of my kamma, related to my kamma, abide supported by my kamma. whatever kamma i shall do, for good or for ill, of that i will be the heir

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

i am of the nature to age; i have not gone beyond aging i am of the nature to sicken; i have not gone beyond sickness i am of the nature to die; i have not gone beyond dying all that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, will become separated from me

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

who up needlessly identifying with the 5 skandhas rn

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

what's the protocol if i want to QT a baddy from twitter. can i just screenshot it or do we have to pretend like that place doesn't exist when we're over here @chercher.ai

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

the most salient feature of, (i guess "hard") stream entry, as best as i can tell from books, teachers, etc, seems to be dropping the first fetter of personality view - seeing unmistakably and completely through the illusion that there is a self who experience is happening to and being controlled by

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

meaning ok maybe you haven't actually dropped the first three fetters (personality view, doubt, reliance on rites/rituals), but there is a sense in which you are in the stream of the dharma and that will inevitably keep developing in you

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

for point of contrast, one of my primary meditation teachers, who is on the teacher's guiding council at spirit rock, has a view that anyone who goes through a ~6 week retreat or longer has probably tipped into something he has referred to as "soft stream entry,"

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daniel brottman 🪷 @danielbrottman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

once in a while, someone who has a favorable opinion of me is surprised when i tell them i'm not a stream-enterer 🤷‍♂️ yes i'm a bit meditation-obsessed. yes i've been to stupid-long silent retreats. no i'm not awake. we exist

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