Rope Burn

By: Ryan Lowe
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  • Summary

  • Short bursts of wisdom stemming from Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and mixed meditative approaches.
    Ryan Lowe
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Spirituality
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Episodes
  • Being Burnt Out and Depressed for 6 Months

    Being Burnt Out and Depressed for 6 Months
    Feb 6 2025
    I was pretty depressed for a long time. I had no energy and I couldn't sleep very well. In the end, it seemed helpful to just take a bunch of time off, unplug from everything and sleep. I more or less forced myself to exercise most days and that helped too. But I did learn that spirituality isn't able to provide happiness on demand. Rather, the big freeing disappointment seems to be that I just become more and more compatible with unpleasant thoughts and feelings.
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    25 mins
  • The Step Back Into Pure Awareness

    The Step Back Into Pure Awareness
    Jun 5 2024
    It can seem as though we live in two Worlds, one with eyes open (the "real" world) and the other with eyes closed (an imaginary world). But a pawn closer inspection of how our brains render our sensory input, it can be possible to see that both of these are actually the same. Playing between the two with eyelids filtering just a small amount of light in can reveal the illusory quality of our visually perceived reality. The knowing of not only visual perception but all experience as being illusory in this way is similar to realizing that you're sitting in a movie theater watching light on a screen. Settling back into pure awareness is like noticing you're watching a movie but the movie is your moment to moment experience. Then the practice becomes maintaining contact with that awareness even when the script of your life twists and turns and ways that would otherwise completely suck you back into believing in the solidity of phenomena.
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    14 mins
  • When to Think

    When to Think
    May 15 2024
    The danger with thinking is that it easily becomes the primary lens through which we experience reality. The advantage to thinking is that it's a powerful tool with which we can navigate the world. The time to think is only when it's necessary, on an as needed basis. The rest of the time we can luxuriate in the experience of whatever's happening, which will include the bubbling up of random thoughts.
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    2 mins

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