Leo Gura

Awakening is not an escape from mind, it's the realization that mind is actually Mind. It's the absolutizing of Mind. You don't need phenomena to be mind independent, you just need to realize that phenomena are absolutely mind dependent. Awakening is the realization of the absoluteness of consciousness. Absoluteness of consciousness is that one thing you cannot be wrong about. And it's not knowledge. Awakening is beyond knowledge, it is a state of consciousness. With that said, there are still many degrees of awakening and more you can realize. You are right to realize that knowledge isn't definitive, it is relative, partial, and highly fallible. But knowledge ain't all there is. So you must seek beyond knowledge.

@Jayson G It's not possible nor good to try every solution because you can waste your whole life on a wild goose chase. At some point you have to stop looking for solutions and accept your situation. Many health problems have no solution. The universe doesn't owe you any solutions. Sometimes everything you try will fail.

Not intellectual truth. Self-biased instrumental rationality to manipulate reality. It's not about truth, it's about survival.

China does engage in some disturbing and problematic things, like indoctrinating their own children to hate the West. China might need containing at some point if it spirals out of control. But overall no one is going to attack America so America needs to chill out.

Calculating logic

Well, one would hope for some human decency, but I guess that's asking too much. Jews of all people should appreciate the importance of that.

Once you found a good book there is no other skill but to sit and focus and listen. And if a section of a book gets too repetitive you can skip forward 10-20 minutes and see if it gets any better.

All the above and I can just take days off to listen.

Just cause Western medicine don't work doesn't mean Eastern does.

The difference is Israel keeps doing it today. They are not interested in decolonizing. Meanwhile there are millions of oppressed people who are denied self-determination.

Netanyahu isn't wrong, Iran would be better off without radical Islamists rulers. But there is no way of removing Islamism from Iran by force. Attempting to do so will only impower the radicals. And it is not for Netanyahu to decide who should rule Iran, as if Iran can decide who should rule Israel.

@Revolutionary Think Don't stretch the analogy too far. If that is your characterization of the founding of Israel, you severely underinformed about basic history. Israel wasn't founded through self-defense, it was founded by aggression and terrorism.

Women are driven by emotions, not money. When you understand this, you've mastered women.

Pretty much

That's what I was speaking to. Ethics in general should tell you that once you're not hungry, you should stop robbing banks.

Yellow is more individualistic, Turquoise is more Global Tribe. That Global Tribe aspect is fundamental.

At this point, no. It's all just pure intuition for me now. I rapidly flip through videos, websites, news, books, audio books, speeches, podcasts -- and rapidly and intuitively sort the crap from the gold. It's all about finding the gold in a ocean of crap. I used to hold books and people in high regard. Now I just pick through their bones like a vulture looking for the organ meat. If I see no organ meat I fly off to the next carcass. #EpistemicVulture

Yeah, but when does it stop? When does Israel feel secure enough? It's one thing to have committed ethnic cleansing 70 years ago. But it's another thing to keep pushing and pushing even in 2024. It's like you robbed a bank to feed your children 20 years ago, but now you rob banks every month even though your children are fat and drive Mercedes.

Ken Wilber And look for others. To really understand Turquoise requires doing the work of finding Turquoise examples. Each new solid example of you find will get you closer and closer to understanding Turquoise. But the trick is not to confuse New Age Green people or nondual or mystical people with Turquoise people. Sorting out those differences is all part of the work to reach Turquoise. It's hard because so few people are there that you don't even know what "there" means.

No I haven't. It's still some months out.

Yeah, that's my life. You should not be taking iodine if you have Hashimotos. That's only going to make it worse. Iodine is a treatment for non-Hashimotos thyroid problems. That doesn't apply to you. Stop taking iodine.

The motivation to do ethnic cleansing is irrelevant to whether one is doing ethnic cleansing. You could do evil things for seemingly good reasons. For example, you could rob a bank because your children are hungry. But that doesn't negate the fact that a bank robbery happened. Being a victim of abuse does not give license nor justification to abuse others. It's understandable why Jews want a homeland -- to avoid historical abuse -- but does that mean that Jews are free to commit any degree of crime to create that homeland? Such logic cannot hold. Especially since Palestinians played no part in the Holocaust.

But no AI can ever match my wicked jokes.

It mostly takes too much time. You can make a small list of top take-aways at the end of each book.