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https://www.actualized.org/insights/ai-makes-you-less-creative

https://www.actualized.org/insights/work-is-not-happiness

I understand what you mean . And you understand what I meant .

There are two types of “noise “ :External noise like the sounds of cars and dogs and loud music . And internal noise which is the monkey mind thinking thoughts nonstop . You can’t stop external noise by stopping internal noise . But it’s helpful to stop external noise if you want to stop internal noise .

If you really inquired and thought about this and investigated it directly and experientially ,you are going to have a serious insight into literally the answer to the question “ who am I ?” . you are NOT a person who lives inside a world , at least not ultimately or essentially.You are the pure infinite eternal awareness inside of which everything occur. i benefited a lot from these videos . Contemplating sleep and consciousness is deeply insightful in spiritual enlightenment work .

entirely AI-generated .outlining the key points of these videos on understanding sleep: In deep sleep, the experienced world disappears. We no longer perceive our body, surroundings, thoughts, or other people. Yet we continue to exist. When we wake up, we say, “I slept well” or “I knew nothing while I was asleep.” This suggests that there was still some continuity of awareness/existence even when ordinary mental activity was absent. The world we experience depends on the mind. During waking, the mind creates our experience of a world containing objects, people, time, space, pleasure, and suffering. When the mind becomes inactive in deep sleep, that experienced world also disappears. The question is: where did the world go? It did not necessarily disappear in an absolute sense; rather, our experience and perception of it disappeared because the mind that was experiencing it was temporarily inactive. Deep sleep is used as an example to question our ordinary idea of reality. If the world seems completely absent during sleep but appears again when we wake, then perhaps our everyday experience of the world is more dependent on consciousness than we normally realize. According to Advaita Vedanta, the body and mind are not the ultimate Self. They appear and disappear through the states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. The deeper question is: what remains through all three states? The waking person changes into the dreamer and then into the deep sleeper, but there is something that provides continuity through these changing experiences. That underlying reality is consciousness—the Self (Atman). Shankaracharya’s teaching points toward the idea that consciousness is fundamental, while the changing experiences of waking, dreaming, and sleeping are temporary appearances. Deep sleep therefore becomes a philosophical clue. It gives us an everyday experience in which the world, the body, and the mind disappear from experience, yet on waking we recognize that we have continued to exist. The ultimate inquiry is not “Where does the world go?” but “Who is the one to whom the world appears?” This shifts the investigation from the external world toward the nature of consciousness and the Self. The body sleeps, but does the Self sleep? The video questions whether the thing we truly call “I” becomes unconscious when the physical body enters sleep. We normally identify ourselves with the body and mind. When the body is awake, we say “I am awake”; when it sleeps, we say “I was asleep.” Advaita asks whether the Self is actually the body that undergoes these changing states. The mind also becomes inactive in deep sleep. Thoughts, memories, desires, perceptions, and the sense of an external world temporarily disappear. Yet something remains. After waking, we can say, “I slept” or “I knew nothing.” This raises the question of how we can speak about an experience that occurred when the ordinary mind was inactive. Waking, dreaming, and deep sleep are changing states. The person you experience yourself as in waking, the dreamer in dreams, and the experiencer of deep sleep are different states—but there is a continuity of “I” through them. The Self is therefore considered different from the body and mind. In Advaita Vedanta, the body changes and the mind changes, but the underlying consciousness—the Atman/Self—is not itself subject to these changes. The waking world may be comparable to a dream. In a dream, we experience people, places, events, emotions, and even a sense of time as completely real while the dream is happening. When we wake up, the dream is recognized as a mental appearance. Advaita asks us to consider whether something similar happens when we move from one state of consciousness to another. A dream feels real while we are dreaming. We don’t normally think, “This is only a dream” while inside it. The same may be true of waking life: we take the waking experience to be absolutely real because we are immersed in it. Both waking and dreaming are temporary states. They arise, remain for some time, and eventually disappear. What appears to be an entire world in a dream can vanish in an instant when we wake. The important question is not simply whether the world is real or unreal. Advaita asks: What is the reality behind the changing experiences? The body and mind are constantly changing. Our body changes with age, our thoughts change, our emotions change, and our perceptions change. Yet we continue to have the feeling that there is a continuous “I.” The Self is the witness of these changing states. Waking, dreaming, and deep sleep come and go, but consciousness is understood as that in whose presence these states are experienced. You are not merely the character appearing in the experience. Just as the dream character is part of the dream, Advaita suggests that the person we normally identify as “me” is also an appearance within consciousness. This does not mean that everyday life has no practical reality. Rather, Advaita distinguishes between what is temporarily experienced and what is ultimately unchanging. The deeper realization is that consciousness is more fundamental than the objects appearing in consciousness. The world, body, thoughts, and experiences change, while the underlying awareness is regarded as constant. The purpose of this teaching is self-inquiry. Instead of asking only “Is this world real?”, the more fundamental question becomes: “Who am I, the one who experiences this world?” The Advaita conclusion: the ultimate Self, or Atman, is not merely a person living inside the world. It is consciousness itself, and in Advaita this Self is ultimately identified with Brahman, the fundamental reality. In one sentence: The central idea is that waking life may be like a dream in the sense that both are changing experiences appearing in consciousness; the deeper reality is the unchanging awareness in which both appear and disappear.

I’m getting increasingly dependent on coffee to regulate my mood and even to erase that after-sleep drowsiness that I feel when I wake up. It has reached a point where I’m not just addicted to cigarettes, but also addicted to coffee. Without my morning coffee, I feel like I can’t properly start the day or get myself into the right state of mind. I increasingly rely on that first cup of coffee to feel awake, functional, and ready to face the day. What worries me is how much I’ve started depending on it,not simply because I enjoy coffee, but because I feel like I need it to regulate how I feel and to get rid of the tiredness that remains after sleeping.

A note on Islam: it is arguably the religion that speaks most extensively and rigorously about the oneness and attributes of God .His omnipotence, omniscience, benevolence, and so on. it contains what I consider to be one of the closest descriptions of God to the way Leo explained Him (it) That said, as a belief system and a source of moral and social rules, I think many aspects of Islam are outdated and cannot be straightforwardly applied to the modern world.

I’ve been dealing with two things for the past two weeks: I’ve slipped back into smoking a lot of cigarettes, and I still can’t seem to fall asleep until sunrise. The cigarettes have left me with a dull sense of taste and a constant bitterness in my mouth, which then makes me crave sugar. And honestly, what a terrible combo that is , sugar and nicotine. Today, I’m going to do my best not to smoke a single cigarette.

There is not much noise where I live past midnight. It’s completely silent in my neighborhood late at night . Which is also when the mind naturally is less active and more ready to meditate and relax.

Understanding and contemplating sleep and dreams according to Advaita :

@nufan sorry it’s difficult for me to understand what you are saying .

just finished rewatching this . summary and key points from ChatGPT: The video tackles the classic philosophical question: Why does anything exist at all, instead of absolutely nothing? Leo argues that this is more fundamental than questions about how the universe began. Scientists can potentially explain how one state of the universe developed into another, but that still leaves the deeper question: why is there a universe in the first place? Key points “Nothing” is harder to define than it seems We normally imagine nothing as an empty space. But empty space is still something: space exists, time exists, and there could potentially be things within it. Absolute nothingness would mean no space, no time, no matter, no energy, no laws, no consciousness—nothing whatsoever. He divides reality into “being” and “non-being” The investigation considers existence (“something”), non-existence (“nothing”), and the supposed boundary between them. The crucial insight, according to Leo, is that the boundary cannot itself be an ordinary thing. If it were something, then you haven’t reached absolute nothingness. The distinction between something and nothing ultimately collapses This is the video’s major philosophical move. Leo argues that our ordinary concepts of “something” and “nothing” are conceptual distinctions created by the mind. At the deepest level, reality isn’t divided into two independent substances called “something” and “nothing.” Consciousness is presented as fundamental He argues that consciousness is the fundamental reality from which existence manifests. In his framework, consciousness isn’t something that merely appears inside the universe; rather, what we call the universe appears within consciousness. Reality is non-dual There isn’t ultimately a separate “observer” looking at an external “universe.” Subject and object—the experiencer and the experienced—are two conceptual aspects of a single reality. The ego/self is part of the illusion The ordinary feeling of being a separate individual is treated as something constructed by thought. If you identify completely with that separate self, you experience reality as “me versus everything else.” According to the video, recognizing the non-dual nature of consciousness undermines this separation. This is supposed to be directly experienced, not merely believed One of Leo’s strongest claims is that the answer can’t ultimately be obtained through intellectual reasoning alone. He presents direct consciousness/awakening as the way to verify the insight. In other words, the goal isn’t simply to adopt the belief “everything is nothing ” but to investigate experience deeply enough that the distinction collapses. The argument in one sentence The video argues that “something rather than nothing” is ultimately a false distinction: reality is a single, non-dual field of consciousness, and what we call the universe is consciousness manifesting itself.

Insomnia can kill you or drive you insane . but god doesn’t sleep.

My favorite cartoon when I was a child .