UnbornTao

Can you bring your thinking and speaking into closer alignment with what is presently the case in your experience, as opposed to what you imagine or wish it (your experience) to be? Going one step further, can you discern what is "thought" from what is "experienced"? To what extent are these domains intertwined?

It is also the case that truth, as a pursuit, is most likely a fantasy for most people, if they even think to care about it in the first place. It's "the Truth," ohhhh - the promise of a better experience, some adopted belief they're looking to verify, or something along those lines. A crucial point is that it's already assumed to be known, and this huge assumption is precisely what fuels the search from the start. It's a form of bias with a "spiritual" twist. It's like saying: "I'm going to validate this hearsay." In my experience, people do not tell the truth. This image explains the sentiment better:

That can be true when it comes to certain forms of programming, but belief doesn't exist objectively or on its own, except as a mental activity held by you. Seeing it as a belief is the first step. The deeply buried ones are seen by us as intrinsic aspects of reality, so they're trickier to unearth. A good (and challenging) practice to take up is to identify each and every belief you hold and drop them all, aside from the functional ones. But seeing something as a belief and not as a reality tends to immediately undermine our certainty in it.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/watch-kanzi-the-bonobo-pretend-to-have-a-tea-party/

Just be careful not to mistake them for what is true - which we all do all the time.

Got it.

It is the impulse and drive themselves, prior to any willful action. You are breathing now.

@Cred Also, are you using AI to write your posts? If so, ease up on that and disclose it when you do. Just a heads-up.

Thanks. And what was that like? Were you able to experience having no language at all - no self-talk, no symbolism, no reference, and so on? Did you experience the genesis of this invention? It's a difficult meditation, partly because we will try to use some form of language to get us out of language. We shouldn't forget that language can also take the form of images, sounds, and so on. Imagination, for example, seems to be largely language-based, which is the main thing we'll do when we try to answer that question with our minds.

Sort of - but it's probably not what you think. Remember how people couldn't really tell with Teal Swan either? There's a thread on it. The religion part referred to a joke I made with @cardozzo elsewhere.

I'm the one with the tambourine.

@Human Mint Good believer. Well said.

One of our religion's main tenets. Well done.