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  2. Nuance could be interpreted as many images of what is fundamentally imageless. What is the image of the imageless.
  3. People are obsessed with being a solipsistic God - Actually hilarious how absurd and rediculous this becomes 🤣

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    Joseph Maynor replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God

    The issue of "you" is nuanced in my opinion. But yes, I agree with you too.
  5. Joseph if you can see a you in the thought or the word, then you can see a no you by same method.
  6. It depends on the person you are speaking to and the situation at hand. You don't tell a mother who recently lost her child that the child is an illusion and there is no-self. That is why there is intuition, timing, awareness, compassion, understanding. All these things come into play. These speakers aren't new, they've been refining themselves far longer than most, if not all of us who use these forums.
  7. Have you tried modafinil to mask the issue?
  8. Duality is thought observed. What can be observed is the thought of no self. What is observing thought?

  9. Truth

    Joseph Maynor replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God

    But what happens here when you're the you that you're referencing?

  10. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Thought Art replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Leo Gura
  11. To me this duality is interesting: wrong vs./and not wrong.

  12. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Thought Art I was not denying your psychology, just adding monkey psychology to it. Gotta study how monkeys think to understand humans.
  13. Nicely said. It’s always a pleasure to talk to you.

  14. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Thought Art replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Leo Gura Why u do this. What u mean? I read Chinese psychology and Qigong books. Chinese view on psychology merges psychology and physiology in an interesting way. It’s very strange for me and challenging epistemic and ontological exercise. I am not talking about 5 element theory. There is more to it… It is helping with my meditation practice as well. I’m working on integrating these psychologies in my self. Chinese psychology is what I keep thinking and coming back to when I listen to your deconstructing rationality series.

  15. What is some music you like?

    Joseph Maynor replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

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    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Don't forget monkey psychology
  17. Are you willing and open enough to be wrong. James said I Am not Wise. I think that’s nearer to truth, as wisdom is thought.
  18. @Elliott True what you say. Probably best to work on it from both ends - disarm the moles from the worst weapons and uproot the foundational issues driving these nutters to do what they do. The West can’t bomb people overseas, invite the world in including people from the same regions they fuck over, not care enough about assimilating said people, then act shocked at the backlash. I follow some right wingers on X to plug into their hive mind and it’s the predictable “deport Muslims” and “suicidal empathy” rhetoric coming from the same old big accounts. Conspiracy brainstorm (or rot):

  19. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Thought Art replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Vali2003 I liked reading over your analysis. She generally is coming from a higher perspective and I found her video helped me to dovetail and contrast with Leo’s recently video series. I think I would add some things where she may be wrong 1. She is wrong to completely disregard lived experience and qualitative experience in psychology. She is wrong to only use formalized and rational, empirical data. She is trying to create a walled garden to protect her psychology from the pitfalls and nebulosity she so well explains on how post modern, feminist, lefty type ideologies corrupt psychology. On one hand she is right to do this because psychology should be able to measure the results of their approaches. Some outcomes should be considered better than others when working with patients. Therefore having measurable criteria is crucial. But, she is wrong because by doing so she limits her ability to understand consciousness and mind because in reality they are nebulous and cannot be formalized….. listening to her and the challenges psychology faces made me realize how difficult it would be for psychology to tango with Leo’s Deconstructing Rationality series. 2. I question her disregard for self esteem in well being and wonder exactly the movement she referred too. I doubt it is the self esteem taught by Nathanial Brandon as she referred to artificially boosting self esteem which is not what Nathanial Brandon teaches… I have much to learn… I would hesitate to say whether she is above or below. But, she offers a strong critique of ideological corruptions in her field, and the challenges of the scientific legitimacy of psychology when distorted by ideology and a lack of empiricism and standard of efficacy. This is challenging! I think there is room for many branches and fields in psychology which may benefit from different types of research, types of evidence, practices, purposes, etc… I don’t think all psychology should be empirical and that qualitative research has value as well. I think a robust psychology should be rooted first and foremost in a non-ideological and holistic lens. Actually, Integral meta theory probably the correct map for understanding psychology, plus psychedelics, Chinese psychology/ physiology, yogic sciences and western somatics.
  20. Metropolitan or Quebec's one ? given that your canadian. C'est similaire mais avec des expressions différentes, et un expression orale, un accent différent. tabarnak
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  22. It depends; his videos on spirituality/non-duality are very good, and his speaking style makes him pleasant to listen to. Those that discuss psychology, sociology, or politics are less good. When I criticize of course it's because I like confrontation; I'm not spitting in the soup.
  23. You spoke from my heart.

  24. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Clarence replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I use the same browser on both phones (Chrome) and did not use any unusual settings on my previous phone. The screenshot I posted was zoomed to 110% (I forgot to set it back to 100% before posting). However, zooming on the blog does not work well on the new phone: when zooming, the text size increases, but it does not adapt to the screen. Here’s a screenshot to illustrate this: By comparison, on the forum, the text adapts correctly: I believe the problem is related to the reason given above. I do not use any unusual settings on either phone. I understand that the blog text size hasn’t changed and that the issue is related to the device, but I'm not sure there's a way to correct it on my side.

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    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Don't forget that we are all devils behind the scenes. So this is nothing special to Christians.
  26. @integral I understand your point but where I think context really matters is why people end up being told their illness is permanent, untreatable, or something they simply have to “manage.” Historically, post viral fatigue syndromes were recognised long before modern medicine, but once ME/CFS became predominantly associated with women, and once clear biomarkers were lacking, it was gradually psychologised and deprioritised by a male dominated medical system (suprise suprise 🫠). This sits within a much wider pattern in healthcare where women’s pain, fatigue, and complex systemic symptoms have consistently been dismissed, under researched, underrepresented or attributed to psychological or even reproductive system causes. That legacy still shapes clinical attitudes today. So when people are told “there’s no cure” or “nothing more can be done,” that isn’t a neutral scientific conclusion, oh no my friend, that's because it’s often the result of research gaps, poor disease framing (even the name “chronic fatigue” trivialises it!), and an over reliance on symptom management rather than mechanism. I also agree that pointing to things like thyroid dysfunction or iron deficiency often becomes circular. Treating the downstream issue doesn’t explain why the dysfunction occurred in the first place, and for many people it doesn’t resolve the fatigue anyway. That’s exactly why patients end up becoming their own doctors and seeking answers online, not because they’re anti science, but because conventional pathways frequently don’t deliver results in real practice. The real ethical problem isn’t people exploring different contributing factors, it’s a broader system issue that prematurely closes the door by declaring complex chronic illness permanent, without fully understanding or addressing the underlying biology. 🫠 And absolutely yes I have personal experience with this topic, and unfortunately a lot of lived experience. Three years ago after my third COVID infection I was completely incapacitated almost overnight. I've since spent years chained to my bed isolated in my bedroom in the pitch black with no sound unable to talk, walk, even lift my head as I lay in a completely broken body. As I do have a substantial amount of lived experience (experience is key here) I have spent three years learning from every angle, researching historically what this could be where it came from etc etc, until my eyes can't tolerate anymore 🫩.
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