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But isn't complexity-simplicity a duality?

Hey guys. I've been a daily meditator for a while now but I have a "problem" since a few months. And I think it's become more intense. Most days now, when I sit down to meditate I'm experiencing a range of strange symptons. I feel an intense (sometimes orgasmic-like) energy in my body that I feel I need to release. Sometimes I feel like I need to shake my body or my head. Other times I feel a need to breathe very deeply and especially when breathing out. Sometimes there's also an orgasmic kind of feeling across my spine, my back, neck, and head. But without ever being able to truly release this energy. This makes meditating harder because it ruins my concentration and I'm unable to truly relax. I only have this problem when I'm sitting down to meditate. And rarely when I'm sitting down and deeply concentrating on other work. I've seen Leo's video on the Dark Side of Meditation. So this could just be something I have to work through. But it'd be nice to hear some words of advice from you guys. Thanks.

Yeah that's my plan. We're in lockdown where I live so I've decided to meditate 3 times a day now for a week and see what happens. I don't know much yet about kundalini. But yes it can get extremely uncomfortable to the point that just "sitting still doing nothing" becomes almost impossible

@commie In terms of Physics basic relativity of speed to intertial frames of reference is not very grandiose indeed (although it might be! It's subjective). The relativity of time and space is more grandiose (Einstein's theories shocked the entire scientific community). Beyond Physics all these concepts are all imaginary and relative to human cognition (like Leo said). And the speed of light, or c, or speed of causality is absolute in terms of Physics. But still relative (to at least our universe) in a grander sense,

Interesting video The idea that the speed of light moves at the same speed in any direction is only a convention. Einstein said that light’s one-way speed “is in reality neither a supposition nor a hypothesis about the physical nature of light, but a stipulation which I can make of my own freewill in order to arrive at a definition of simultaneity"

Nobody has! (in a vacuum) Not directly at least. Only indirectly (the two-way speed of light). @commie Hmmm.. Yes I did not really consider problems of a finite speed in QM. Doesn't QFT solve such problems? Yeah the concepts of "speed" and "time" and "space" are all relative to observers. They don't exist in any absolute sense.

Yes. Because the one-way speed of light is c (and the same as the two-way) by definition (and admitted as one by Einstein). Not because of empirical research. It's literally called the Einstein Synchronisation Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_synchronisation And the speed of light doesn't necessarily have to be infinite for the two-way speed of light to differ from the one-way speed of light. But I get your point. A difference between the two implies very odd consequences. But that's no argument against it being a convention.

The European Union is seriously considering a European Army. Especially France and Germany want this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_army

He obviously suffers from mental illnesses. This guy should not be "running for president" Don't get me wrong. I do wish him the best of luck and healing in life. But it's kind of ridiculous to think of him as a stage Yellow thinker

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??? The ingredients of coke are: sugar, carbonated water, caffeine, and some E-number. And sugar.

@Rilles The dislikes though lol Triggered Blue and Orange

Great taste! A song I really like:

Trump could shoot someone live on TV and republicans would still defend it

Yes some people are lucky with their genetics in one area, others in other areas. But a lot of diet or lifestyle related damage is only noticeable long-term. As a kid and teen I had a shitty diet: too much sugar, too much caffeine, too much alcohol, too much junkfood, no exercise etc. And yet I never became fat and never had energy problems. It's only like a year ago I started to become aware that I was developing health and energy problems. I'm still pretty healthy and I choose to stay healthy.

Funny that today a friend of mine told me about how led poisoning may have significantly contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288205039_Lead_Poisoning_and_the_Downfall_of_Rome It's a lot of speculation though. Just found it interesting to share because it was a bit of a coincedence I heard about it

93 years old. And not done yet lol

Well good job lol First time is awkward of course. Always is every time it's someone new. But complicated?

Isn't presence just being aware that everything (in any state of consciousness) is always happening now and that time is imaginary? I don't think you have to necessarily even be aware that the self is an illusion to realize that. Most teachers seem to point to that thing being enlightenment (realization of no-self). So I don't think that (even according to most teachers) presence is enlightenment...

More left-wing YouTube channels calling him out

It's so sad that Jimmy doesn't see Trump as much as an existential threat as he really is and which Biden is not... But at the same time it's amazing he talks about these topics now

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