Dharma is an organism’s teleology.
The acorn’s teleology is to become an oak.
Your teleology is to become whatever it is that lurks within you.
Humans appear to be the only known organism that can stunt their own dharma.
<aside> 💡 “…I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering… David Whyte, The Sun
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Conjecture: learning how to attune to your dharma, and participating in it’s unfolding, is the great task of our lives. Committing to this process will cultivate a mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual resiliency that one day soon modern psychology will find revolutionary (and therefore controversial).
Conjecture: the best place to start in this process of attuning to your dharma is to train our capacity for sustained attention.
This is what a dharma sprint it; the fundamental practice for developing sustained attention for modern people navigating The Shimmer. See: The Shimmer: Part 1 & The Shimmer: Part 2