Human Mint

Novelty fades away quickly

Mathematics is like drawing.

That is because I have a bias and I like the content of this particular language. But I throw a lot of possible answers not as definitive but as examples, since you need to cover a lot if you want to know something. But I think there are better qustions like: what it is to be a human? Is a language just a feature of being a human? Or is it a feature of consciousness? What is higher order than language? What comes before language in cognitive development? What would destroy a language? What cognitive function is better than mathematics? And worse? (In terms of intelligence) I had an awakening where I saw everything is imagination. So I undertand mathematics is not exeption, it is just pure imagination. Now the contents of it, I do care. Probably because I was constantly forced to learn it during 13 years, but also because I like it.

@Michal__ This is more like a contemplation, it takes time to shift your perspective. So it shouldn't matter much.

Uf, being horny is a bitch in those retreats. But with caffeine I made the mistake of taking the black tea as the last beverage of the day, probably at 4pm and bed time being 9pm. Plus I was going to bed normally at 3am during that period of my life. So I literally had a lot of sleepless nights during the retreat. You wake up at 4:30am. That's the reason I was reluctanct to do it again. When I don't consume caffeine my baseline is a super calm state, perfect for meditation. So I would do it again, but prioritizing all of this.

Yeah, I know

Emotional mastery Contemplation skill Facing fears Those are valuable things that affect every area of your life. You want to invest in those like a mf.

I just did one 10days vipassana retreat, and I regret taking instant coffe and black tea every day. It ruined my sleep and the whole retreat was off.

This is a cool and fun exercise/experiment. Most of you may know that if you only see with one eye you cannot perceive depth. The exercise is as follows: Lie down looking to the ceiling and close one eye. Spend some time there and you can start perceiving the ceiling hyper close to your eye, as if it right next to you, and you can switch to the oposite and percieve it as far far away. Like kilometers away. You can percieve it being 1000km away as if your looking at the surface of a planet. Following the same idea, turn around and look straight to the surface below (your sofa or floor) and just open one eye. Wait until you see that "little" space as a giant room!!

The conformity of reasoning. You can trace back that one in your life. Yea true, like not masturbating on someone's grave. Huge conformity. And saying yeah at the begining of your phrase haha.

Well that exposes conformity so it doesn't count

"Is this a good question?" No/yes So then you make space for better questions or you don't get stuck with bad ones.

This one is questionable but: The way manufacturers design cars. They all have this round shape with sharp-lines following a wave path. But it is also because of aerodynamics, although they're full of unnecesary details that it is just conformity. It is like the shape of plastic bottles, another example of conformity. It is not just a cylinder, but a cylinder with smooth dots, sexy curves, futuristic forms...

Could you make an episode on kriya yoga practice?

What I am finding is that mathematics is not different than english, or spanish, or sign language, or any language. 1/2 is "one divided by two" sooo.... They are the same. In fact I would say that mathematics is just a condensed form of spoken language, making it implicit af and full of assumption that you need to uncover and not just copy. In that regard, mathematics is also a mode of imagining. It is imagining proportions and forms, divisions. It is imagination. The better you are at math the easiest you see this. If you're just a teen in math class you just copy the procedures and you don't see it as a mode of imagination. It depends on the teachers you have. Luckily you have a math teacher that cares to explain all those implicit assumption and make you understant the true meaning of mathematic operations. Mathematics is not different than going to the supermarket and buying bread. Or building a home. It is just repeating different actions to arrive at some place.