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𝘈𝘯𝘥… 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺𝘺𝘺…?

［𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝘚𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 ] 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 * 大同 — 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 420 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩. 💚

* 大同 (dà tóng) — an ancient Chinese vision of a great unity, reimagined here as “𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝘼 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚.” taken in 大同區 by @danielwchen0

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Caught an ultra rare Pokémon from the outer space 🌌..👽..👾

搭上六架飛機
攀爬五天高山
度過四晚寒夜
神聖山中魚尾峰
站著二位凡人
訂下一生修行

4.3.2023
#machapuchare #nepal #engagement taken in Nepal Himalayas - Machapuchare by @danielwchen0

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內觀十天回來了，歷經了約90小時的禪坐，每天早上4:30AM到晚上9:00PM，在一個沒有網路沒有書本，音樂和任何感官刺激的結界裡，我經歷了什麼呢？有許多人詢問，回到人世間約一個禮拜，自己其實也還在感受這份轉變。

什麼是內觀呢？內觀(Vipassana)是一種技巧，一種能賦予你正確觀察你在經歷一切，如實看到你身心狀態，與長年養成習性反應的技巧。畢竟大多時間我們都是活在自己的想像裡，而憂於忙碌的生活，我們無法去應對的感受只好把他壓縮在淺意識裡面。

內觀不是儀式典禮，不是信仰宗教，不是智力遊戲，或情感上的滿足，內觀是一種無派別，普遍性高，自然，科學的方法。

無派別是因為這技巧是每一個人都有辦法學習的，普遍性高是因為透過內觀你面對的是自己每天的喜怒哀樂與深藏在自己身心內的能量，自然是因為他倡導的是與自然的道理常在，而不是去違背自然（我們有負面情緒時，其實就是違背了自然的道理，而第一個被懲罰的就是我們自己，內觀是希望能幫助你去釐清痛苦的來源），而內觀是科學性的，是因為這方法追求客觀性的真理，就因每人的現實與真理都不一樣，我們的感受永遠無法達成永恆的共識，但客觀性的技巧能去引領每人，憑著個人的修行與體驗去進行驗證。

內觀修行戒，定，慧。修行戒，是因為持戒能幫助你更能達到定，達到定是因為唯有心定你才能真實的面對自己的內心，當你能真實的面對自己的內心後，你才能達到修慧的領域。

內觀要你觀察自己身體從頭到腳，先藉由觀息法的練習，打開你覺察微小波動的能力，使你的心開始變得越來越細膩。當你能察覺到的不在只是表面與粗重的實相，當你能觀察每一剎那纖細感受時，那些組成你身體所有持續波動的次原子粒子們，你就能開始感覺到世界無常的真理，你可能會感覺到愉悅的波動，也可能會感覺的不愉悅的沈重感，但你會發現即使是自己身體的實相，感受也總是生生滅滅。

當你在一小時接著一小時，不斷地面對著自己身心累積在淺意識的感受時，你也將慢慢的了解自己心的習性，自己長期在滋養的業力，當你面對你喜歡的事情或感受時，你是否繼續貪求？當你遇到你不喜歡的感受時，你是否反應蹭恨？你是否無意識的滋養了這些能量然後傳遞回去給這世界？

當你持續陷進去這感受遊戲，這愛與恨的輪迴，與命運鎖鏈，雖然心裡知道這遊戲是玩不完也玩不贏，但因為已經深陷太久，麻木太久，已經不知道登出這遊戲外面有什麼，而不選擇抬頭探望⋯

人會痛苦是因為人不知道這遊戲是無止盡的，但若能脫離這無明就能停止滋養這業力，我們的心則會被過濾，雜質會持續浮現在我們的心的表面，而我們若是能不去繼續的習性反應，我們的心就將會被淨化，身心變得更順暢，腦袋變得更清楚。

內觀的技巧，佛陀在35歲覺悟後到80歲，天天奮力教導人這些技巧的原因就是想幫助不想繼續玩這感受遊戲的人，想要能不受無常現實給干擾，想要脫離無明業力火焰，想要活在永恆安詳與喜悅的人，一個方法，一條出路。他做到了，之後的千千萬萬的人也透過了這方法做到了，而這方法也透明純正的被人保留著⋯⋯

身為過去7年開始接觸到禪學，也開始禪坐的人，內觀的體驗給了我非常大的幫助，前幾年我學的禪坐偏向日本禪宗，雖然在這幾年內我也受益巨多，2021因為疫情我在家連續禪坐了90天，約100小時，但我並沒有使用內觀技巧，我進步與得到智慧的速度也就顯慢，所以對於內觀這非常具有系統性，非常實際操作，非理論的禪坐方式，個人受益非常的多，也非常推薦給所有想要追尋更好自己的人去嘗試，由你自己去驗證屬於你自己的現實。的確是一個不簡單，艱苦的過程，這十天對我來說也是非常的艱難，去之前也是頗焦慮和緊張，但結束之後，真的非常的開心我完成了，也非常珍惜這緣份，希望接下來我也能繼續把內觀繼續在我生活下延續下去，讓自己與世界都能有更多安詳，快樂的波動。 by @danielwchen0

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150 🏀. Basketball unites people. Some of the best time in the past year... gonna miss it 🙏♥️🔥 #basketball #basketballnation #ballislife #ballers #whatdoyouplayfor taken in 150 Van Ness by @danielwchen0

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candid shot of my desk. what do you see? taken in 150 Van Ness by @danielwchen0

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Centered #centered taken in Mauna Kea by @danielwchen0

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Want to join our cult? Gotta wear booty short and meditate first Fun weekend with birthday boi @had.rien #throwbackthursday #welcometoinstagram #socialmediaisgood #cult #uphere taken in Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area by @danielwchen0

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Tassajara Zen Mountain Center - the first monastery center outside of Japan #zen #zazen taken in Tassajara Zen Mountain Center by @danielwchen0

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As of this weekend, I’ve officially graduated from iSchool at Berkeley, where I got my master degree from! It was an extremely humbling journey. The community that’s built by EVERYONE involved really offers limitless opportunities for people to connect, reflect, and learn. It really opens up my eyes on what inter-disciplinary collaboration between a group of people gifted with innate intellectual and varying domain experiences are capable of. I’ve started to take it for granted after a while but I personally have become a strong believer of interdisciplinary learning.

No one specialization can stand alone and significantly contribute to the advancement of technology and humanity. Everyone and everything is intertwined and interconnected. Every small action and small thoughts we conduct are the foundations of our characters, and our characters are foundations of the society. Outstanding engineering without serious consideration of the socio-economic implications should be treated as a sin. Passion for driving social changes without the ability execute, implement, and critically assess the assumptions might be a time waster or commit irreversible mistakes. But the most important thing is to be open-minded at all time, especially towards the voices that scare us the most or the people who are most different than us, because it’s really through the disagreements we grow.
I’ve learned that it’s very easy to be good at one thing, but it’s extremely difficult to be good at multiple things. And in order create great things, we have to be great at multiple things, and it takes a lifetime of dedication and efforts to do that. We should never use societal standard to measure the greatness of work. There needs to be better metrics than that. We should learn to periodically revisit and re-assess our long held experiences and assumptions we made subconsciously towards people and things. Things we used to love could easily be things that you will learn to hate, and vice versa. I appreciate the exposure iSchool allows me to have on ethics, principles, and engineering rigor. These things really make technological creation more meaningful. I think such emphasis provides long-t taken in UC Berkeley School of Information by @danielwchen0

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Late night work selfie 😅 #work #autodesk #berkeley #life #beer #react #express #node #babel #webpack #specialday #2years taken in Autodesk SF Office by @danielwchen0

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