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I think you’re an INTJ. J types are more goal-oriented and prefer having plans and structure rather than being spontaneous. I get the impression from you that you prefer sticking to your goals and your routine and if something sidetracks you, you do your best to get back to your plans. J types make detailed plans about their lives and future and prefer to have organization as opposed to chaos. But I also see you being more fluid and unstructured in some sense. For me, I am about 55% P. It’s also interesting that you are a T type since T’s prioritize rationality over feelings. I say it’s interesting because you seem to prioritize intuition over logic. I go back and forth between INFP and INTP.

I don’t think this question really has been answered. How is my conscious experience all there is if there are things that happen outside of it such as a thief stealing my car. I can go find my car out beyond what I currently perceive. It’s not like my car has vanished into nothingness until I perceive it. A thief can scratch the car even though I’m not there to observe it. How else would you explain how the scratches got there?

You ultimately want to learn how to meditate and contemplate without any external source. You want to learn how to just be awed and satisfied with just existence itself. The simplest method is just to walk through a forest and look at the trees as if seeing them for the first time. Hold a leaf, marvel at the beauty, and contemplate it.

The blog is sometimes more insightful than some of the videos.

Just because you haven’t experienced something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You haven’t experienced Mars, but yet, it exists even when you aren’t aware of it. You haven’t experienced the paranormal, but yet it exists.

ADHD is a gift in many ways. You are more aware of stimuli that others tune out. Another way is that your mind cannot stop thinking and wondering about reality or whatever you’re most interested in. Don’t forget about the hyperactive component. I have so much energy and have little awareness and care for social norms. That’s some of the benefits of adhd and autism. Your mind just thinks more creatively because your mind can jump around so much more easily than others.

I’m not sure what you all mean. The whole point of contemplation is to use your mind to deeply focus your thinking on a single question to derive insight. Contemplating death is a good meditation. Of course, you fear death and fear can be a good thing. But you want to contemplate death so you can live your life.

It’s an insight. The only reason I was able to have an insight was because I had clear defined rules. I practiced reality testing and when I was driving my car in my dream, I hopped out of my car and the road was still moving. That’s when I had my insight. Other times, it was me doing other reality testing techniques.

You are still gonna have your own discoveries. I go to the bookstore and find many great books that aren’t even on the list. Just get the book list.

Look into Maranasati

Contemplation. ADHD is a gift. Use your mind via contemplation.

Being single is the greatest gift you can give yourself. All that energy you give to maintain your relationship (which is a collective ego btw), you could give to becoming an amazing philosopher. Ofc, you can have a relationship and be an amazing philosopher, or you can become an amazing philosopher and pursue relationships, but learn to be happy without sex and relationships. If you take Buddhism all the way, you will become so detached and will hit a place where you feel happy just existing in your own solipsistic field. This field is the place where true relationships should be built from. Attachment is not love.

What do you all think of The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar? She talks about all the ways women manipulate men and talks about the manipulations of the dark feminine.

Probably only 3-5 that I can remember. They are pretty cool. I have had lucidity as well in reality whenever I had a deep insight into oneness and no-self for the first time.

Guys and ladies. Watch the video below from 1:40 and then contemplate this: Why do women expect guys to initiate and make the first move? She is simply testing how masculine you are. The woman in the video even says that the kind of man she is looking for is the kind who would approach her and take initiative. Of course women are attracted to strength/confidence. If a guy is too feminine and doesn’t approach, he won’t get a girlfriend unless you are lucky, which has happened to me in all my relationships. I can count 2 times where it was a woman who approached me. One initiated making out and the other one wanted to take me home.

This is precisely the danger. You cannot even say that you can’t know. Stopping your curiosity is the death of all understanding. That’s why I am against meditation in particular. Even meditation has its limits, but we don’t talk about those. Don’t forget about meta-rationality.

Koans are just an excuse for not explaining something simply. I think Einstein said that if you cannot explain something, then you don’t really know what it is. I think this is true for the most part. If you cannot make sense of it in your head and cannot articulate your thoughts, then there is still more work to be done. We shouldn’t accept anything less. Koans make excuses. Instead of beating around the bush, be freakin direct!

But we live life as if that isn’t just a story because there are real survival costs at stake if you just leave your drink at a bar. We act as if the external world exists. I mean if what you are saying is true, then there is no thief. But how do you explain that I can find the thief and the wallet if I follow the evidence and track him down? There would be no use in having a detective because a body on the floor wasn’t murdered by anyone. But we can find the killer. What if there was video footage of the thief and killer and you were wrong in claiming that nobody stole or killed? See how the killer and thief are mind independent but the knowledge via video footage is mind dependent? That should disprove this.

I hear you. But it’s just not parsimonious and logically sound. I see you even have an assumption that sperm donors exist too. Everything has an infinite chain of causation. We can look at a child or even a leaf and trace it back infinitely and go infinitely forward.

@Leo Gura How do you explain that reality appears to be mind-independent. A lot of objections I hear from people is that there are plenty of things we aren’t aware of but yet still exist. For instance, if I see my car window broken and find my wallet gone, then I’m gonna infer that someone broke into my car. This seems like a more parsimonious explanation. How do you explain that there are things that happen outside of our experience if Consciousness is Absolute and there is no external world? How could my car be broken into if I did not perceive the thief? It seems like the thief is mind independent. This is what I mean by mind independent reality. The thief still exists even if I don’t perceive him.

I am gonna keep contemplating this and then will get back to you. Some empiricist would disagree and assert that experience = knowledge. You couldn’t know color without experiencing color. But knowledge is much more conceptual because you can have experience without knowledge, but you cannot have knowledge without experience.

If I go to my car and my window and broken and my wallet gone, I’m gonna assume someone broke into my car and took my wallet when I wasn’t aware of it. When you go to the bar, are you really gonna leave your drink on the table to use the bathroom? The drugs someone puts in your drink is gonna be independent of your awareness of it.

Good points. I will contemplate them more before I respond. I don’t know how anything is possible let alone understanding it.

I am not sure I agree. I agree that knowledge is entirely mind dependent, but human trafficking is happening right now independent of my mind. If I died right now, human trafficking would still be happening as it was before I was born. Things can still exist even if I am unaware of it. You think me saying human trafficking doesn’t exist because I have never witnessed it is a plausible claim? I could use your argument against you and say that human trafficking doesn’t exist because I am not witnessing it right now. We meet this interesting contradiction because when we say something exists, we also seem to imply that we can become aware of it. So when we say that police brutality and racism exists, it implies that it is in the field of consciousness if we bother to look. Of course, people can deny racism exists, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t. Of course, we can only know racism and trafficking exist through our own consciousness because like I said knowledge is mind dependent but trafficking is mind independent. Edit: Putting it a better way, this dream if you wanna call it that, requires that to have children is to have sex. This seems like a pretty consistent rule. That means for every child you see, you can infer there was fucking behind the scenes. Of course, have I ever witnessed the kids parents having sex? No. But this seems like a more parsimonious explanation than a child appearing out of thin air.

Consciousness can have some relative knowledge. For instance, we have knowledge of survival, how to make houses, and how to direct electricity. I probably was wrong in saying that consciousness is permanent. I do not know that for a fact.