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  1. Posted · Edited by Jwayne

    On 1/12/2025 at 8:56 AM, highfalutin said:

    Hello! I am in the process of establishing a private school in Russia, where, with the help of a dedicated team, we will focus on teaching English. At 22 years old and nearing the completion of my studies at a pedagogical university, I have spent considerable time reflecting on and exploring various approaches to language instruction. My aim has been to distill the most effective elements of these methodologies into a cohesive and practical strategy that we can apply in our teaching.

    The school is designed for learners aged 16 and above, with a starting English proficiency of at least B1. I am genuinely seeking input and suggestions from this thoughtful and knowledgeable community. Your insights and perspectives would be immensely appreciated.

    It often feels as though education is regarded as an immutable field, with little consideration given to alternative approaches or innovation. I have found inspiration in works such as Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society, the lexical approach to language learning, and the DOGME framework. Rather than outlining my specific ideas at this stage, I wish to first hear your thoughts, which I hope to analyze and compare with my own plans to refine them further.

    Additionally, I have explored Susanne Cook-Greuter’s research on ego development and drawn valuable lessons from Leo’s oeuvres. I try to remain deeply mindful of how much there is still to learn and how many perspectives could enrich this project.

    Thank you for your time! It is an honor.

    You remind me of me when I was 22 years old.

    All of these theoretical ideas (Illich, Scott Thornbury, etc.) need to be tested against the fire of experience.

    Many of the most important qualities are intangible and not written in the perfect lesson plan - like positivity, joy, patience, sense of humor and improvisation.

    You might like to keep a notebook write down your ideas after each day or lesson, depending on how much time you have. If you are starting your own school, then collaboration with your colleagues is important for keeping a professional dialogue going about your shared experiences and how to improve things.

    And lastly, don't be afraid of old school, traditional methodology, like listen and repeat. I am sure there was a time when you first learned English or another language. Listen and repeat is a fine and valid technique. Many aspiring teachers with big progressive dreams undervalue the need for students to make mistakes, feel free and to just speak the L2 (L3, etc.) whatsoever.

    Overall you want to build up the students confidence. You are empowering them. So make it a happy moment. And respect them by doing the old school things, too. Their brains need repetition and practice.

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    17 hours ago, Nito said:

    @Jwayne Yeah I agree with you. is there anything to do to kind of bullet proof yourself from suffering when you are old and ill? I saw a clip from Shinzen Young where he said with illness and chronic pain, you can tolerate it and not be bothered by it if you have very powerful mindfulness. So maybe I should start practicing that more lol, Specifically he was taling about "equanimity"

    Whether you are old and/or ill, you want loved ones around you. Family and friends - even just one person - to be there to help take care of you and to give you company. If you have that then you can get through almost anything.

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    Just now, Breakingthewall said:

    Why roleplaying? Sorry for the comment btw, I deleted later. Why do you put personal communication above virtual communication? In certain aspects, in the purely intellectual aspect, virtual communication is superior

    Virtual communication only has the advantage of closing distance. But it isn't faster or clearer. If you and I were to talk on the phone right now, we would have 1000x better information exchange and would also (in my experience) walk away on more satisfying terms.

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    1 minute ago, Breakingthewall said:

    Then these people are escaping from their problems by using spirituality as if it were a drug. This is common, but there is a chance that someone is intelligent enough to realize it and really delve into themselves. Obviously, just like there are drug addicts, there are cheap drug dealers, that's life, but real spirituality is real.

    There are alot of hallucinogenic drug addicts here, as well.

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    2 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

    Maybe you should go to the church and work as a volunteer with the homeless or anything, but this doesn't mean that that's the path of everyone. Some people need total isolation for a while to get deep into themselves, then when their being is totally open the relationship with the world will arrives naturally. .

    Ah, and you could call clown to other people better, maybe to your mother would be a good idea, just a suggestion. 

    Sure, spend time being alone as needed.

    And also don't get stuck roleplaying digital identities as a substitute for your life offline.

  6. Posted · Edited by Jwayne

    1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

    This section is supposed to be about what reality is essentially, not about human relationships on a practical level. What is existence as existence, what is the substance of reality, what are you when all the relative qualities disappear. 

    99.9% of people come seeking that as a solution to psychological, physical, sexual, financial, etc. problems. And they end up in long winded cycles of self-deception trying to rationalize how the next stage of transcendence is going to make whatever repressed issue(s) they have better. Sometimes years or decades go by on the spiritual hamster wheel, and it would have been far better to confront their life problems head-on in the beginning.

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    On 12/17/2024 at 7:03 AM, quantumspiral said:

    How do you stay motivated and excited about life when the world contains so much suffering?

    1000s of murders per day globally, countless animals in awful factory farms, more than 100 ongoing armed conflicts, human slavery etc

     

    Contribute howsoever you can to help those who are hurting. Starting with those closest to you. Begin with your family and friends. Try to be a positive force to brighten the world around you. A lot of people are sad and apathetic and will appreciate the positive vibes.

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    This message board is mostly used for egoic oneupsmanship via semantics.

    Your post introduces a topic that few are willing to address.

    We need real life friendships offline. Not more online anonymous posturing with our digital identities.

    I don't know why people are content to browse forums and annoyingly rant about how they are more enlightened than everyone else.

    We need real offline communities. We need to live our ideas in the world, with strangers, with everyday folk in our daily lives.

    We don't need to invest more attention in Youtube. We need to challenge ourselves to embody whatever realization we possess in the real world. And to be ruthlessly honest with ourselves about it. And to keep doing better.

     

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    On 1/14/2025 at 3:10 PM, James123 said:

    İ have been on the path almost 8 years now. İn my 4th year, i have recognize what enlightenment is. All i did was retreat, psychedelic retreats, staying alone and meditating, simply surrendering and just Being. After that i have enlightenment experience. 

    However, after enlightenment, experience leans down, and new life starts. First couple months are honeymoon, however when everything leans down, you directly face with life. Because, you are not the same person as before. Every aspect of life evoke the enlightenment not the self, and learning the life from perspective of awake person is very difficult (this is where real surrendering starts), because most people are programmed to materialistic duality view. 

    Surrendering is easy while you are alone, however it is the most difficult when you are in life and while around people. Therefore, meditating while you argue with people, hearing your boss while he/she yelling at you etc... 

    İn the beggining of the path, you learn to meditate, during the enlightenment you learn how to completely surrender, but in life you will surrender within the fire. And when you do that, all is done, there is no self is left, no suffering, no more gaining or loosing. You are free. Life turns Love, self turns emptiness, death turns to the life, life turns to death and world turns to the Source / Now. 

     

    You're right that the real challenge is bringing whatever privately held delusions you have about yourself ("I am so enlightened") to bear on the wider world around you in a positive way.

    Think concretely how to improve your relationships and to contribute to your real life community, like your family.

    And ignore every one of the clowns trying to one up each other on this thread.

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    On 1/15/2025 at 1:46 PM, Nito said:

    I've been a stressed out, anxious, overthinker, and very unpassionate person this past year, and so I decided to watch Leo's recent video on happiness to learn how to become happier.

    In the video he claims that happiness is conditional i.e: you need certain conditions to be happy e.g: you can't be happy if you have bad relationships in your life/you can't be happy just sitting in a room meditating all day... and this makes a lot of sense to me

    However, I've also been watching Leo's older videos on meditation and mastering your emotions and Leo always used to say that meditation and mastering your emotions will allow you to be happy without needing anything.

    After finally getting serious with meditiation and mastering my emotions recently I feel so amazing which makes me seriously unsure what is true... whether happiness is conditional or not.

    It really makes sense to me that happiness would be unconditional since if Leo used to say these kinds of things about meditation and mastering your emotions, means that he was experiencing that "unconditonal happiness", meaning it was real?

    Apologises if this post doesn't make much sense, it's my first time making a post on any forum for a long long time, appreciate the replies I get! 

    You're not going to be healthy just by repeating quotes of Seneca, if that's what you mean.

    And if you're not healthy, you're going to suffer physiological problems (i.e. illness)

    Much of our mental and 'spiritual' suffering is physiological (psycho-somatic) Our happiness also depends on our physical state.

    So happiness, practically speaking, depends upon the conditions of your life. This is obvious. Nobody is happy when they're stressed, in pain and suffering in their job and relationships.

    The myth of a transcendentally blissful state acquired by sitting meditation that can erase all of life's problems is very dangerous. It makes for a vicious cycle of repression and self-deception.

  15. Posted · Edited by Jwayne

    On 1/15/2025 at 3:52 AM, Howtolive said:

    Is the some kind of order or roadmap for people in their mid to end 20s to how to navigate all these different topics? 

    Thanks a lot !!


     

    This is exactly what I've talked to guys about for the last 5 years. And unlike anonymous internet communities like Actualized (where strangers weirdly boast about their drug usage), I like to have phone calls and do study groups.

    Nobody solves all their problems by taking hallucinogens and doing vipassana. Reading the dozens of rants of people's personal meditation sessions that are posted here is a waste of your attention.

    You also need to sort out your hormones and diet. You also need a real community - offline and online. It isn't enough to chat on message boards with people you don't even know who they are.

  19. Posted · Edited by Jwayne

    21 hours ago, Letho said:

    @vindicated erudite  you make really great points and critique as long as it's coming from a good place is extremely healthy.

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    The main underlying pattern of the model is that the metamorphosis in human consciousness is tied to its evolution based on how a sentience categorises, strategies and identifies along the spectrum of self and other. The two main functions that evolve through this are empathy and self awareness, everything else that follows is purely as a byproduct of any one or of the two, especially how consciousness organises the structures of morality and economy relative to their respective culture.

    I recently found out accounts cannot be deleted from Actualized. That's quite sketchy to me. It seems to be a deliberate and deceitful capture of data at the expense of users (e.g. privacy, respect).

    There are many highfalutin conversations on these forums and those are mixed with autistic banter, but very little metacognizance of the very platform itself.

    It seems to me a symptom of digital degeneration which I have written about extensively at Ascetus. Accruing electronic clout by way of pseudoactivity.