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

    I like to call it abstraction. I was talking to a new Ager and my brother in law overheard. He went to his mother to say I was mental so I ended up having to explain symbolic language and getting to what the person is trying to point at using simile, metaphor ,analogy to similar patterns in different style language or framework. I called it abstraction. Likening it to the Socratic method or what Pierre grimes would do with dreams. I did it with my dad in hospital when he was up to his eyeballs on morphine. Everyone else dismissed his slurred rambling and left the room. I had one of the most interesting conversations I’ve ever had with him. I also get what you say about meaning but only in context. This became very apparent to me while figuring out how AI was stringing words together to make intelligible sentences. It’s also something that has cropped up after my (very recent) autism diagnosis and that is not understanding what people are saying particularly in short group chat comments on the likes of WhatsApp and it’s because the word or sentence lacks the context. Just as with the nature of reality, meaning cannot mean something unless it relates to another meaning. It’s the relationship between the two where any understanding or distinction can occur. that’s just going to send me off into an expanding contemplation… I’ll stop my brain before it keeps itself awake all night 🫢
  3. If you're seeking something, you can be sure it's not wholeness.
  4. The word God is not used in Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism and probably other religions too. But that is a function of style of teaching, specifically, the eastern way. Do you really think Buddha, Mahavira and Lao-tzu didn't know what they were talking about? The vedas, Upanishads and all other spiritual text was there, Non-duality was all around, Rishis meditating left and right preaching that God is all, God is absolute, God is Brahman. All these people kwew these ideas, but they still went on with their style of not preaching the word God. Buddhism is not about being human at all, no where it is claimed that you are human, Buddhism is about transcending the mind.
  5. I'll be more invested once I see it able to estimate and bid on construction plansets. Huge test of methodology, intuition, cross reference and unique ideas needed to bid an accurate price within timeframe limits. I know I keep crapping on about it. I tried bluebeamMAX which is estimating software + Claude bolted on. It was worse than anything I could have expected. So unless they are hiding the top AI, I find it all fantastical fantasy thinking. I feel the whole gig is just scooping up investors money while they can prior to the truth coming out - that it's just not where they report it is yet. I just want to see something used in application that really makes a difference - not just act to make us spectators. Enhance engagement, not reduce. I don't see any point in technology that replaces humans instead of suppliment.

  6. Psyched Substances is homeless

    Carl-Richard replied to Davino's topic in Psychedelics

    Use paid social media ads to advertise your gofundme. There are people out there willing to donate to you (evidenced by the fact that somebody has already donated to you), so all you need is their attention.
  7. Apparently the advanced models are now outperforming PHD level biologists on lab protocols as well
  8. Maybe they had that god realization and it was a projection of their mind
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  10. Actualized.org is the best technology ever invented by a human. Anyone doubting this you're making a fool out of yourself! (I warned you). Had to be said.
  11. Try working hard the day, they train hard 1,5 h , then meditate with a micro dose of psylocibin and 1 puff of weed, maybe another of DMT. I know that this doesn't sound like a yogui but works good. The important thing is not the drugs, it's that you can be silent, without interpreting, then drugs in small dose are very useful to make your shell softer. Also the feeling is pleasant. After a while you can get in meditative state without drugs, but at first are a great help. What you have said is true, at first you try to meditate and it's extremely stressing, it's something against your natural impulse

  12. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

  13. I want to share but it's complicated

    Human Mint replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Don't take it to seriously. Laughing is medicine!
  14. @Eskilon Those are advanced teachings at their depth but they are not God realization. The word God isn’t even used by Buddha himself. God realization, as described by those who have had it… and to the extent I’ve experienced aspects of it is categorically different from Buddhism. Buddhism is very human. God, is not…

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    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    A lot of unproductive thoughts come up as soon as I dont take my adhd medication.

  16. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Also I partially dont have a Plan B. I am too old to get accepted to an acting school.

  17. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

    It's plain hubris to think you can understand precesely what another is communicating or meaning with certain terms. We have discussed at length, over multiple threads, that words do not have inherent meaning without context. Words are symbols and not containers. The tension is that words have enough shared meaning to create some overlap between minds.... We essentially communicate in our own language, transmitting the weight of our context and feeling out, and try to be understood. It's why we engage in good faith discussion. But more often than not, nothing is discussed in good faith. The discussion ends as it does because we stop treating language as an attempt to communicate. We start treating it like some kind of evidence for prosecution. Again it's "Not knowing" that has power.

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    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I checked out the WhatsApp Group of my old theatre club yesterday, in particular the pictures of the members. I am finally taken out. The old theatre club still has such a massive grip on me emotionally though. I have so much anger. I knew I couldnt look at the emotional pain of the loss of the old theatre club straight because I needed to protect myself emotionally. I had so much love for this place, looking at the reality that all my dreams crashed and that I will never have it is just too much to accept. Maybe thats why I cant let go off my anger.
  20. @Leo Gura Your skydiving story is insane . I would never do that solo haha. I'm too chicken
  21. @Thought Art Buddha does teach God-realization, but not directly. The eastern method is not in your face. You can claim his methods are really hard to implement in this day and age because society and the human changed a lot, but make no mistake he was all about God. The way to reach there according to him is through transcending suffering. He documentend all his realizations on the sutras, all the 8 jhanas(physical and non-physical) and much more.
  22. @Joseph Maynor Because Meditation, especially in Buddhist context does not teach God realization. You can scour Buddhist texts, and the heart of what Buddha has taught and the 8 fold path… the Buddha did not develop a teaching of God realization. He developed a path of right being, solving suffering and increasing consciousness and relative human truth. But, nowhere is God explained in Buddhist texts. God realization, is not Enlightenment as is taught by Buddhists. I’ve never seen a Buddhist explain God. Could they exist? Could there be a rare text? Sure. But, meditation and the eightfold path is not God Realization. Buddhism doesn’t really talk about God and from I’ve seen doesn’t seem to be a major theme or question.
  23. How could you discount someone's God Realization? Epistemologically?
  24. @prophet That’s not God realization.

  25. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

    According to @Yimpa, like a stuffed fox looking into the void 🫣 Notice I didn't bring up Leo in this context. I do think he sometimes overdoes it with self-gratifying posting, like calling scientists retarded in 50 different ways and whatnot, at least partly as cope for the sacrifices & loneliness of the path, but there's sufficient instances of him admitting he's only human and not above corruption/ego. Ultimately how he acts here matters very little. In the same way, if he were a cult leader and claimed 1+1=2, would you dispute that because it's said by a cult leader? The arrogance seems more improper to those that treat him like a guru, to me there's no such thing, just a guy I listen to that knows more about certain things, and maybe in the future that'll become redundant too. Forum Leo is basically:
  26. To become God is to become enlightened. Enlightenment takes meditation, long periods of meditation. You need to meditate for very long periods of time and to practice mindfulness frequently. The eightfoldd path is to be a good persion and to meditate for very long periods of time.
  27. Okay. That is an answer. I will review that video again.
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