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If one develop's sensitivity to one's feelings, you will see that any attachment creates suffering.

You can't get rid of the sexual urge, but lust is about attachement.

Lust is the most powerful of the low consciousness traps.

From the very beginning, it looked to me like they were doing a professional wrestling routine. Their act had all the elements: fake toughness and humor. But the part that is real is that they are accused by two countries of committing multiple real crimes.

What’s interesting in that all spiritual teachers now feel the need to make videos explaining their position on psychedelics. It’s because psychedelics have become a big fad and they are getting constant questions from their followers who demand they get on the bandwagon. I now consider it a test of integrity which spiritual teachers resist the pressure and are willing to take an unpopular position rather than condone false hope in a quick fix to deep existential problems.

People are inauthentic as a protection mechanism. If you are authentic, you are going to pay a price, most likely rejection and loss. It’s not a feel good new agey thing. The reward is intimacy, if the other person decides to agree to the process rather than running away.

El-Sayed is a really good candidate. Finally, the left is doing something right. He is attractive, articulate, polite, intelligent, and has a manly image that makes the average right winger look clownish and wimpy. In this age where optics matter, the right-wing smear machine will fail against such a candidate. Even if he doesn’t win now, he has a bright future. He needs to be duplicated all over the country. This is the only hope for America.

Try having the AI give you directions when you are trying to find something. If you ask it something as simple as "should I walk north or should I walk south” , you are not likely to get the correct answer because it has no representation of a map and the meaning of directions. I tried this and it just sent me going in circles. The LLMs cannot reason about anything. They are pattern matching.

I recently bought a new vacuum cleaner and one of the parts wasn’t clicking in correctly. I used the AI and it was just leading me in circles. I even uploaded several pictures of the part at different angles and that didn’t work. I then sat down and thought hard for a few minutes and figured it out myself. That and other like experiences made me realize that the current large language models do not having reasoning ability. They are basically fancy pattern matchers. They can appear to solve problems if the problem and solutions have already been recorded in the data they have access to. But the problem solving is an illusion. The AI is just pattern matching previous solutions.

Try meditating 12 hours a day in the middle of winter in the Himalayas in a cabin without heat.

I’ve complained before about the use of the word “game” referring to “pick-up”, as in picking up a sack of potatoes. The terminology was created by PUA marketers and the language is amazingly effective in locking men into a failed paradigm. I suggest the central concept should be “connection”.

playing with words.

The ancient traditions were created by people who lived close to nature and without the comforts of the modern world. They were grounded in reality, and from this groundedness they reached higher states of consciousness with intense inner practice.. The Western materialistic mind is too immature to produce real spirituality, just fads, bling, and excitement to appease the easily bored. It’s the difference between having a house built on rock and a house built on sand. I’m a traditionalist. Fuck the modern world.