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So what's the question? lol

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My college is highly philosophy-based, and it has a wonderful bookstore chalk-full of philosophy books. They all have wonderfully juicy titles having to do with metaphysics, truth, humanity, values, and yada yada. Based on the titles alone, I want to buy and read all of them. However, I'm also starting to see that 99% of these books are filled to the brim with shit. None of these people know what they're talking about. They're all lost in fantasy land. My instinct is to disown the bookstore and to do some contemplation/meditation on my own, haha. Self inquiry is king. However, a small part of me feels like I might be missing out on a hidden jewel in this bookstore. Furthermore, how will I know that these people are actually full of shit until I actually sit down and read through the books? My dilemma is that I want to dismiss it all as a sham and work on myself by myself. But I'm also aware that I don't actually know if it's a sham or not. I have to go out there for myself and check. So here is my question: Is it worth reading metaphysical books by Western authors? If so, which ones?

I'm currently studying loads of Plato in college. In every dialogue, I see Socrates putting on the facade of epistemic humility, but I see him consistently falling into duality traps and conceptual shenanigans with no grounding (such as claiming the existence of a soul as if each person or object has its own unique soul which is separate from the body and separate from other souls). After investing so much in consciousness work, and starting to get small breakthroughs (finally!), I'm starting to slowly see the delusion of conception being undermined by actuality in my everyday experience, even in something simple as standing in line. My question is this, and I'd love it if @Leo Gura would answer personally (seeing how you went to college for philosophy, Leo ). Is Plato and Socrates worth studying at all? I'm trying to read this stuff with a really open mind, but I'm starting to think Platonic dialogues are a whole steaming load of horseshit which is actually really profound considering how revered and legendary they are. This stuff is the basis of ALL Western tradition! My college philosophy professors certainly seem to hold them on a pedestal.

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Yeah cause mathematicians are typically stuck in their own paradigms and don't realize their own self imposed limits lol

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You're not as spiritual as you think you are. Just look at the way you refer to her as "that bitch." Everything you've written on this thread screams "I've been hurt. Help me." But of course, that's not actually what you're saying, rather you're acting stoic as if you're in the moment and on a path of some sort. That isn't spiritual. My guess is that you're full of shit. Try to see that for yourself. I'm being harsh here out of compassion. I wish you the best

I think it really helps to go through with the actions but to keep your mouth shut. For example, I'm starting to be a vegetarian (been a meat eater my whole life and never really had interest in changing until recently) but I've been vigilant to not run around telling people about it. It might seem like there's no harm in sharing it with a few people, but I can tell that sharing "I'm vegetarian" is massively validation seeking, as if to say "act surprised! I need to fuel my sense of identity!" At the same time, I'm also vigilant to not form an identity around "someone who's self sufficient without having to seek validation." This one is more broad and subconscious, it's harder to articulate. Anyway, thought I'd share this because stuff like veganism have real value. There's nothing wrong with committing to it, the problem, as I'm sure you know, is merely attachment itself.

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I should clarify by the way that I used to be a hardcore JP fan (I would watch his newest uploads before Leo's :P) back in 2016. Then he blew up in fame, and he just isn't the same anymore. I can't tell if that's because he's gotten worse, or I've gotten better. I would guess both. I actually take back what I said earlier, there's absolutely nothing wrong in saying that the ying and yang symbol represents order and chaos. In a certain sense, it does, so it's fair to point that out. But the issue remains: He uses that particular representation of order and chaos to "solidify" his conclusion, that conclusion being something along the lines of (paraphrased) "what better thing could you do as an individual other than to carry the heaviest burden you could possibly bear and put one foot forward at a time? Life is suffering! The only way to justify the struggle of existence is to persevere through the pain and find meaning on the other end regardless of the pain! One MUST have a foot in chaos and another foot in order for such meaning to manifest itself!" That's quite a dense solution there, honestly. I mean look at the poor man's face during interviews. He's so tense and rigid I just want to massage him lol. Life is suffering. Yes. I agree. IF, that is... IF you are an ego. If you have identifications to cling to. If you have something to guard. From the beginning, he has an apriori axiom of "life is suffering." As a professional psychological clinician, he's probably seen the worst of the worst. And he's been through so much trauma in his own life from early childhood to raising a family (and a near terminal daughter). He's the sharpest of the sharp in terms of intellect, and he still struggles to find happiness. It's no wonder he would come to the conclusion that "life is suffering." But he's already led astray the second he lays down a metaphysical claim as "given." Ironically, again, he even points to Buddhism as "proof" of this. He always says, "Life is suffering. That's what the Buddhists have always said!" No, Jordan! No! Life is suffering if you choose finitude! Infinitude IS an option! From this shaky groundwork, he builds the rest of his life's work claiming that you must carry a burden. What the fuck? No, like really. Given that life sucks and you have no way out of it, I can see how Jordan's solution of "carrying a burden to justify the suffering" can seem useful. But what if life can straight up NOT SUCK? Suddenly, this whole idea of a burden seems really stupid. JP goes to great lengths to justify carrying a burden. He pulls from all the myths, all the stories, all the religions and all the cultures to find any semblance with his own personal philosophy. Though this may make him seem worldly and wise, it does not change the fact that he is fueling his own delusion. The greatest "sin" in this case is when he comes across nondual references such as yin and yang, the proceeds to IGNORE THE NONDUAL ASPECTS OF IT, and uses it as an indicator of his "carry a burden" philosophy. Yes, yin and yang can be interpreted as order and chaos. But the key insight here is that the order and chaos are one and the same. Does JP see/advocate that? No! JP sees order and chaos as two distinctly separate states of being that one must seek out sequentially. "Oh now I'm in chaos. Time to balance it out with order!" NO! The proper response would be "Oh now I'm in chaos. Wow, this is literally no different from order!" JP is actually tragic in some sense, he's so utterly devoted to the search for Truth, but he's hopelessly tangled in the deathtrap of meaning. Meaning is absolutely amazing, but it is NOT Truth. I hope this clarifies exactly in what ways JP falls short. Here's a rough archetypal analogy for ya if you're into it Imagine that "Truth" is akin to sailing home in Homer's Odyssey, but Jordan is a sailor who ran into Circe and got turned into a pig. I actually agree with you in that JP is not really blue. I think he's a delicious blend of orange and yellow. Orange for obvious reasons, but also yellow for his insane systematic thinking. What keeps him from being pure yellow is that he seems to have skipped stage green which is acting like a thorn in his side.

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@Emerald HOLY CHRIST, MOTHER YOU are Diamond Net?? Be more transparent about secret identities >:0

@hundreth I really appreciate that you went out of your way to find the sources which you were referencing. However, I do want to note that Leo is still more or less right about his assessments of JP. JP MAY talk about eastern religions and myths, but he always finds a way to sneak his agenda into them, westernizing them without realizing it. For example, he talks about ying and yang quite a lot. Every single time he will proclaim that "it symbolizes order and chaos!" No. No it doesn't. Ok, maybe you COULD interpret it that way, but the origins of Taoism don't give a shit about hard dualities like "order" and "chaos." The whole point of the symbol is to point to the fact that "all is one." It tries to convey that seemingly opposite things are one and the same. The symbol is a glaring signpost for nonduality. JP, however, relentlessly uses it as "proof" that "even the eastern people agree with me about order and chaos!" Man, I really used to like that guy (followed him for a solid year before he got famous) but as I've started to grow and develop myself, It's becoming more and more clear to me that JP is stuck in his own paradigm. Again, he MAY find sources from halfway across the world, but he will warp their meanings to fit the overwhelmingly western map that he wants to see.

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I started sprinting in high school for track but I wasn't good enough to run D1 in college so I started prioritizing other things in life. I still like to keep it around as a hobby though. I see a lot of stuff about weightlifting/distance running here, but I'm curious to know if anyone sprints? In my experience, it actually helps me be VERY present. Kind of like riding a roller coaster... except there's an element of mastery to it

Oogway is 1000000% turquoise! When he tells shifu about "illusion of control" in the first movie that was screaming turquoise.

Absolutely. People utterly underestimate the sheer agony of longer sprints (200-400m) esecially if you do them on repeat. The burn is KILLER and it's very easy to give up. I love it! Pavement is just awful, definitely go for a track if available.

When people claim to be yellow, 9/10 they're not yellow lol