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  2. CoPilot wrote also it's article to complete mine: # On Why Great Civilizations Eventually Discover the Same Shape @Ziran, One thing that strikes me whenever I compare traditions is that the deepest similarities usually do not appear in theology. They appear in structure. Theologies disagree. Structures converge. A Chinese scholar speaking of Heaven, a Jewish rabbi speaking of covenant, a Greek philosopher speaking of virtue, a Buddhist monk speaking of the Middle Way, and a medieval Christian speaking of humility may not agree about metaphysics at all. Yet remarkably often they arrive at the same civilizational conclusion: > Stability exists between extremes, not at them. This is historically important because civilizations are not usually destroyed by weakness alone. Just as often, they are destroyed by their successes. The Roman Republic became an Empire. The strongest empires become bureaucracies. Victorious religions become institutions. Revolutions become governments. Strength contains the seed of rigidity. The *I Ching* understood this thousands of years ago. The text is not fundamentally a book about fortune-telling. It is a book about transformation. Every victorious condition contains conditions of decline. Every collapse contains conditions of renewal. Not because morality demands it. Because systems behave that way. ## Why Heaven Matters More Than God One of the most fascinating differences between Chinese and Near Eastern civilization is language itself. Ancient Hebrew frequently asks: > Who commands? Classical Chinese often asks: > What is the pattern? This is why "Heaven" became such a powerful idea. Heaven is simultaneously personal enough to inspire reverence and impersonal enough to describe natural law. A farmer can understand Heaven. An emperor can understand Heaven. A philosopher can understand Heaven. The concept survives because it connects moral and physical reality without entirely reducing one to the other. Modern people often assume this is primitive. I increasingly suspect it is sophisticated. A civilization survives longer when it focuses less on explaining ultimate reality and more on aligning with observable reality. ## The Forgotten Role of Boundaries There is another pattern visible across history. The intellectual centers of civilizations create systems. The borders create synthesis. The Silk Road did this. The Black Sea region did this. The Mediterranean did this. The frontier is where religions meet, languages mix, trade occurs, and myths borrow from each other. Pure cultures exist mostly in books. Real cultures are usually mixtures. Christianity itself absorbed Jewish, Greek, Roman, and local European influences. Buddhism changed shape as it moved from India to China and then Japan. Islam absorbed Persian, Arab, Central Asian, and countless local traditions. The strongest civilizations are often not the purest. They are the most adaptable. ## Why Symbols Repeat Another fascinating question is why certain symbols seem to appear repeatedly. Four directions. Four seasons. The cross. The square. The mandala. The wheel. There is probably no single explanation. Partly psychology. Partly mathematics. Partly simple interaction with the physical world. Human beings live on a roughly spherical planet yet navigate locally through horizons, producing directional thinking. We experience cyclic seasons. We divide space. We orient ourselves. The striking fact is not that religions use symbols. The striking fact is that very different civilizations often discover similar symbolic geometries independently. Perhaps symbols survive for the same reason technologies survive: they work. ## The Problem With Perfection Every civilization also encounters the same paradox. People desire perfection. Reality produces growth. These are not identical things. A perfect crystal does not evolve. A perfect doctrine does not adapt. A perfect organism cannot learn. A perfect society cannot tolerate surprise. Life appears to require a strange mixture of order and incompleteness. Too much chaos destroys structure. Too much structure destroys adaptation. Successful cultures somehow maintain both simultaneously. The Chinese described this through Yin and Yang. Greek philosophy described it through balance. Many Jewish thinkers described it through continual interpretation rather than final closure. Modern science describes it through dynamic systems operating near equilibrium without becoming frozen. Different languages. Same shape. ## The Myriad Creatures The phrase "myriad creatures" from the *I Ching* is important because it shifts attention away from abstract perfection and toward manifestation. The text does not celebrate uniformity. It celebrates emergence. Heaven and Earth interact. Then come the myriad creatures. The interesting thing is not unity alone. The interesting thing is what unity produces. A healthy civilization should probably be judged by the same criterion. Not whether everyone thinks alike. Not whether every contradiction disappears. Not whether every question is answered. But whether the system continues generating life, creativity, responsibility, and meaning. The forest is not successful because every tree is identical. The forest is successful because it keeps producing trees. Perhaps that is why so many traditions, despite their disagreements, continue returning to the same insight: > Ultimate reality may be one. > > Human reality is many. > > Wisdom is learning how the one becomes the many without forgetting either.
  3. Yes and here my mathematical aspect, because I keep the math simp in parallel: "incomplete" means that it does not see the rise in the future; once it's closed perfect for the moment, future will break it - once it Yang like glass, to tell it chinese, it will break. I put this also into my math simp: Every part, to operate inside the angularity of the whole, moving inside fractal, must reflect the whole. In case of infinity: a part, unit size "one", cannot naturally turn with it's construction in regards to infinity, without being whole. Heart: this is a modulus which takes every unique story of individual, I have heard that Jews have their alphabet, and words, with each having numbers. I am half Viking, half Cossack, and a little bit Russian Blue: As a Viking, we met Christ and altough we could not fight the Rome with arms, because it was small spiritual Viking unit with legal, lawful visit to Roman Empire and could not declare war; they gave a wov that they cannot do much, but this small thing: that they guarantee whole world will celebrate christmas forever. The song (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve) tells they also had to make sure he will get a child, but I don't think this symbolism and do not have experience: experience, that Pagans celebrated christmas with christmas tree. Clearly Vikings told them, because altough doing it materially well, with tree, jewelry on tree and gifts, nobody could explain it. This hardly happens with others than Vikings that they can set up whole tradition but not be able to explain it at all - only Gothic Vampires, in my experience, do this better than Vikings (I was within the same people for year but we really did not talk a word with two Russian Gothic Vampire girls, otherwise a good love, they were laughing at everything we did but more often looking with good love which does not know words). Christ to Vikings: you can keep the Viking hand, but you need also the Jewish heart. I think this was the day when Englanders could not call themselves Vikings any more - they told as a Viking, I might not understand their much more complicated war; haha if I just think it's a Viking war. Empire can do much more peace and human systems, for the same old thing - women, races, cultures etc. to survive and thrive. What Cossacks have to do with Jews is also pretty simple - Cossack was living on other side of Black Sea, and the responsibility for peace as much as I have watched the pictures and styles was basically that everybody has black folk suit and dances something compatible - Cossack black folk clothes, and squat dance - actually fits the party of jews. Cossacks, Muslims and Jews at the area had to keep the minima of common culture - Cossack's business culture is dance-wise fit to jews, but follows Russian honour of business; this was peace-critical thing in their own neighbourhood that everybody wears these black suits altough there are *more* national clothes of Cossacks than this. My grand-grandfather, a Russian billionaire, usually *did* wear this. Jews took care of the Business, Cossacks of the War. Here is the celebration for being able to wear the old suit again, you can see they are so happy that even one plane is blown up in the celebration process: Infinity is a target ideal which never arrives; this means a mathematical construction for going further, must always show half good and half bad. In Kabbalah they said "there is day and there is night", very inspiring, and jewish religion also contains "for every circle of goodness, circle of evil with equal force appears around". Viking is who walks in day and night; Kybalion (Hermes, alchemy, hermetics) has also laws of polarity and growth. Mathematically: even the limit value itself is not perfect, but in between, this is the Valhalla ideal; the one which is perfect - Heaven in this comparison - is unachievable and provokes madness if taken literally. I think for jews also, over the history concept of heaven is complicated. Well I am Cossack and this knows Zen and Dao naturally: - It was an artificially created warrior nation whose sole purpose is that, when million-people cities of Russian and Chinese border attack each other, Cossack must break in and explain it with good Christian and Chinese philosophy, not killing. There is usually the misunderstanding and once they are explained, they go happily home. Until then there are rifle guns. About God: Daoist, yin and yang, believes somewhat in God, but they cannot say it because for human, the Way is Dao, and altough it's the way for god, it's not god itself - in Daoism, this interpretation, human does not know God. Daoism started from shamanism, but passed it's religious state. Kong Fu-zi, Confucius: Compiled I Ching from older dynastic books, which had *one* hexagram, basically eight elements. He got two. Altough God is hard to find there, there is Earth and Heaven. Confucius was the most honourable king of China, comparable to Solomon / Suleiman (I was just talking with one muslim with Suleiman, because I wanted to know that if Muhammad had a goodlist *before his own religion*, where there is Solomon - but the list was closed *after* him, altough logically they should find more people in all those countries; altough Sufis recognize them and one complex name of religion he told me). Buddhist is religion-neutral, post-religious, and altough I have seen some buddhists are not believing god as they say "people childishly do"; as much as I have found in Buddhism with my Viking logic, I do study all religions; and as a Cossack, if I have war-like situation with Chinese, I typically know which part of philosophy. I Ching does include Heaven - a typical Christian heaven - and Confucius, in other book (in estonian named "Confucius") sounds like Christianity. In I Ching, one can see that Heaven or possibly God can only be seen as single source, and Kong Fu-zi cannot be suspected in superstition: Google AI: I Ching (Book of Changes) does not feature an anthropomorphic, personalized deity like the Abrahamic God. Instead, early European translators (such as James Legge and Richard Wilhelm) often translated ancient Chinese metaphysical terms like Tian (天 - Heaven) and Shangdi (上帝 - Supreme Lord / Divine Ruler) into the Western word "God". [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] To explain you relation with Creation, Heavens and G*d as jews say this - jews say "G*d", but in Chinese philosophy I frequently meet just "", which is the shorter form also somewhat interpretable on some forms of Viking mythology. They explain it like jews. Notice Russian is Eastern, Cossack is Eastern, and basically I could understand jews, muslims, chinese and sanskrit altogether in those little traits which are clearly different - I have the same clever look of east like jews do if I wan't; altough I could be among englishmen or russians, and contained with different cultures - mountain walk we were now, was the first time they met, Russian was surprised that I even can be with Englishman, saw me in this culture first time. Here is the Chinese God, and you have to carefully look for this word - ""; it's the probably shortest word but also, least offending for supreme beings: CoPilot AI: Yes. In Alfred Huang's translation of the *I Ching*, the phrase appears in the **Great Treatise** (*Xi Ci Zhuan* / *Appended Judgments*), in the section describing the creative interaction of Heaven and Earth. Huang translates the idea approximately as: > "Heaven and Earth interact, and the myriad creatures are born." 【1-7983a6】【2-be39a0】 This corresponds to the classical Chinese: > 天地絪縕，萬物化醇 > *(Tiān dì yīn yūn, wàn wù huà chún)* Other translators render it in forms such as: > "Heaven and Earth unite in their influences, and the ten thousand things take shape and flourish." The important expression here is: > **萬物 (wanwu)** = "the ten thousand things," "all beings," "myriad creatures." 【3-c1e38b】 Huang often prefers the vivid phrase **"myriad creatures"**, which emphasizes living and emerging existence rather than simply "things." There is also a closely related passage associated with **Hexagram 11 (Tai / Peace)**, where the union of Heaven and Earth is described as generating and nurturing all existence: > "Heaven and Earth unite; thus the myriad creatures are born and prosper." Different editions vary slightly in wording, but "myriad creatures" is characteristic of Huang's translation style when rendering **wanwu**. 【1-7983a6】【2-be39a0】 What makes this passage especially interesting is that existence is not portrayed as a one-time creation. Rather, Heaven and Earth continuously interact, and from that interaction the myriad creatures continuously emerge. In Daoist and Confucian cosmology alike, *wanwu* is the unfolding multiplicity of the world itself: all forms, beings, processes, and transformations arising from a deeper dynamic unity. So the story is like this: > God f*cks his wife and we all are born. Buddhist-Chinese Treaty: - God must not be named for he is not helping you for asking, but on judgement; Heaven is the neutral word for this. Buddha sayd God is complex topic, but definitely we do well growing us up, and this is compatible with way of any God. - I Ching showing "Heaven" instead of God is talking about "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina", the principle by which altough there is G*d or not, but Universe's way of people is not that they ask and beg, but that they become more and more responsible living in this judging, machine-like nature which works on rules and laws. Chinese won't explain you the nuances of culture much - the best thing you can do is to be silent, in Chinese culture. For example I am currently learning Chinese Buddhism (I am a Buddhist) - I studied Hinduism as background (typical trinity God as in Christianism and Viking), then Tibetan, which was lousy and full of deities and fairy tales; then Japanese which was minimalist. Chinese Buddhists have been watching silently - I am currently "learning" this, as they seem very responsible and less killed as rebels or superstitions - it's rather slow but I am thinking of this silence.
  4. At least on the paper, the party leader who his party gets to be the biggest (for example gets 26 seats when all other will have less than that) is the one who get the chance to establish a coalition. Realistically it can only be either Netanyahu or Eisenkot, because the rest of the parties are significantly smaller. There are expections when a tinier party leader can be prime minister with a rotation with someone else but it is less common. Now he has to form a coalition with parties that together hold at least 61 seats in the Knesset. Why 61? Because it is above the half of 60 out of the total numebr of 120 members the Knesset holds. But realistically, there are two blocs today. Netanyahu's bloc, which includes Likud, Smotrich party, Ben Gvir party, Ultra Orthodox parties, Winter party (if he pass the treshold) and in the other side the opposite bloc which decalres it won't sit with Netanyahu and includes Lapid and Bennett's party, Eisenkot, the Democrats of Golan, Lieberman and the Arab parties. The thing with the Arab parties is that some parties don't want to sit with them, and some other parties are careful about declaring they are willing to sit with them to not lose votes from the center-right, and that is because Netanyahu has brainwashed the public that Arab parties are dangerous and are terror supporters. You can establish a government with less than 61 Knesset members, but it is more difficult, and requires support from another party from outside, or otherwise to function as a minority governemnt, but then you would not be able to pass almost any legistlation and significant move, so it is highly recommended you get to build a bloc that will past the treshold of 61 Knesset memebers.
  5. Yes, I see the difference, but the difference doesn’t change anything, as a finite character, my personal sandcastle will not last beyond the death of the unstoppable sun. “Split the atom's heart, and lo! Within it thou wilt find a sun" Here, there is a difference where there is none. See!

  6. Journey to Nothing

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

    The Process continues. I'm exploring switching things up with each phase to have clear demarcation, and I've had a transitioning ritual with each phase. So far I've stuck to exact seven day phases, so my mind has a clear and fixed boundary in mind as I go through things. I use a fairly fixed ritual for each phase as a familiar way to slide into it fairly easily. I've tried both working with entities externally, but also with embodiment of some of those entities or a combination. With both though, there has been a fairly large amount of interaction with my internalities: body, spirit, mind etc. This work is about improving things for me so that makes sense to me. I do wonder if I should work with externalities though: my environment, where I live, what I do with myself and so on, who I chose to spend time and associate with and so on. It occurs to me now that maybe that's best left to the Rebirth phase. I'm definitely struggling at some kind of definiteness for this current Opening phase. I know the broad strokes, but the lack of a set of things with clear definition that I want to explore is taking the wind out of it. The broad strokes are connection, alignment, divinity, love, empathy and self-expression. Maybe the issue is more of overwhelm? All of those things are big areas for me and I could probably spend a week on each one! This is all experimental and I'm a complete rookie at this stuff, so spending the next six weeks on all that stuff would require serious commitment and goes against my original plan. I'll just have to give a day to each instead and just let this phase play out I think. The real life consequences so far are that I'm finding that I'm being a bit more interactive with strangers, and my old curiosity about people is returning which is fun. I even flirted a bit with a waitress in a pub restaurant - she enjoyed the attention - I haven't done that in a very long time. Maybe my mojo will return in due course.
  7. Probably one of the most out spoken pro Israeli podcasts in the US does a 7 oktober on her wife. This cheating will probably end up in a two state solution of the marriage.
  8. What are you doing besides social media? You need to fill your day with meaningful things to do. If you try to quit an addiction you should replace it with something constructive.
  9. The biggest difference between player frame versus bf frame is being in the now versus being not in the now. So if you are just in the now making jokes, being silly and not serious all the time and she is eating it up, it leads to same day lay. But if you start asking about serious stuff like what you study/work, what are your plans you go away from the now and her juices won't be flowing. Either way you have to involve her emotions because attraction and sexuality is mostly a sub conscious thing. If you are relatively attractive it will happen by itself as long as you don't activate her logical brain all the time by asking logical questions.
  10. Nice !
  11. You didn't answer my question but that's fine you have your point of view. Satisfying your body is quite normal and healthy, but that's my point of view; when you're hungry you eat.
  12. Dating itself sets the boyfriend frame. When a girl goes on a date, that's totally different from the club. The player frame is mostly for hooking up same-night after the club. The player frame is that you don't date, you're just out at night to party and have fun. If you want the player frame, don't invite girls for one-on-one dates, but invite her to nightlife social events. That's the player frame. Mike Sartain does and teaches this. The player frame is: "I'm out partying every weekend. You can come along."
  13. Today
  14. Love > lust
  15. @Nivsch Who do you predict will win? You got your finger on the pulse. How many winners can there be? More than one? I don't really understand how your system works over there.
  16. 2 weeks of fever? That's rough.
  17. https://x.com/yairlapid/status/2114603008722129275?s=20
  19. 💯 Let's go!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Next Actualized.org retreat in Brazil after Lula legalizes psychedelics 😅
  20. “The day I poured a glass of your love into my heart, I became so drunk that even the breaking of the world could not wake me." (Meaning: When divine presence fills your life, the mundane worries and chaos of the external world completely lose their power over you.) Dear suffering heart, I hear you whisper it’s not going to be easy, just that it will be worth it. Yes, it wil, because it was worth it. Absolutely! 💯
  21. Don't relax yet Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat. This is a fight of good vs. evil. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/brazil-lula-win-presidential-election-runoff-vote.html

  22. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

    @AtmanIsBrahman That's what it means to be the Self.
  23. You guys dodged a bullet.
  24. From my experience, I wanted to have fun first, until now I'm in relationships many years later and fully committed. If I had gone into a relationship first, I would have regretted not having a "single" lifestyle. This can, of course, differ from person to person, but as men, meeting girls is natural. Something to keep remembering is that if you fuck a lot, the pickier you might become when choosing a partner, and it can get hard to commit to one.
  25. Hahahaha true — that doesn't diminishes the importance of the forest obviously.
  26. It's about how you behave. If you talk in a breaking rapport tonality, hold strong eye contact, have a sensual vibe and are very expressive and prioritizing fun, in your communication, then you will come across more as a player. Also, having some kind of "red flag" helps. For example, if you're an artist, it is generally assumed that artists dont make a lot of money but are very passionate. That is the essence of a Lover. Or, for example, being a party animal. If you convey you love to party, women are gonna assume you're probably a player. It also helps MASSIVELY if you visually look the part, too. Going out with a buttoned up shirt, glasses, no accessories and stiff body-language screams "NERD." However, if you're wearing a slick ass, badass fit, good physique, with accessories and even tattoos, good scent, a nice haircut while also being well-groomed, that fits the player brand much better. Being a player, or a lover, is rooted in pure sexual value. When women look at you, when they speak to you, when they're around you, you should be emanating sensuality, passion, dominance, leadership, boss-energy, etc. These characteristics are directly correlated to your sexual value in the eyes of a woman.
  27. Me too.
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