Harri Besceli

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When is it hard to speak the truth?
Where in your life are you not sincere?
What parts of reality does your mind recoil from?

I'm offering company in exploring these questions.

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I see these questions not as the domain of the mind, but something more like the heart or soul, or even spirit.

(How does one know when one is lying? Not through reasoning to a conclusion on the matter)

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These questions can have a moralistic flavour to them, implying judgements about right and wrong, success and failure, good and bad. I don't believe in judgements of this kind. I think they often serve to reject parts of reality.

If one is lying, that too is part of reality.

I aim for this space to be a space without judgement. (And if judgement is present, that too is to be treated without judgement)

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Relatedly, the questions above can risk baking in particular orientations or answers.

The question 'When is it hard to speak the truth?' can easily assume that we know what the truth is, and prejudge it. It can easily lead to siding with one side of a story over another.

I aim for this space to be a space which encounters the unknown.

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What does this look like?

In an important way, I don't know. I'm not aiming to follow a particular process, and it depends what comes up.

Though also, and more informatively, a big part of my own journey of encountering these questions is through the practice of circling, and that informs a lot of how I am with others in their own journey.

I've also got a lot from Joe Carlsmith's essay On Sincerity and the ideas inform how I'm orienting to this.

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