UnbornTao

Get enlightened, make no mistakes.

"My name is X, and I am an egoholic." Or self-holic. @TruthFreedom Good luck on your efforts; they will be worth it on so many levels.

Pretty unpretentious, down-to-earth, sobering. No place for (as much) fantasy.

Thanks for sharing. Dual booting and virtual machines on QEMU/Virt-manager are cleaner options, in my view - depending on what you want to do.

Let's keep the proselytizing going:

@Nemra @Leo Gura @aurum @Davino Sorry, busy. There's some basic misconception at the heart of this belief-fantasy that's clearly etched in stone for some of you. In any case, I'm not doing this again. Consider the Ramana example. Not even dying changed things for him, so why would getting drunk, meditating, fasting, feeling bored or tired, or taking other drugs? This is the impossibility being talked about. Nothing causes it or can cause it, because it is not a process. You do it. Why would they say that this is a fantasy? Hmm... There are plenty of threads you can find on this. Why not hold it possible that when these guys are talking, they're using consciousness differently than you? Basic point: you're talking about cognition and experience, even awareness, and the changes that can be found or enacted within those realms. You drink tequila, you get drunk. You fast for a month, another set of effects occurs. But Consciousness is not a function of the brain. I did share something, in the end.

Psychedelic retreat*

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The fuel one - insisting on a fundamental fallacy. Sounds convincing, though. People would rather have a way out (or way in) than sit with ignorance, even when that way is built on false premises. Ramana wouldn't have forgotten - or realized, or seen through - his nature depending on which mind state he happened to be in, had he developed dementia, suffered a stroke, or taken the drugs. This suggests the recognition isn't a neurochemical event or a state. The fallacy is thinking that within a dream you can ingest part of the dream in order to wake up. This impossibility can feel discouraging - everywhere you look is the dream - but that's only apparent. The possibility doesn't rest on the brain because it was never about the brain to begin with. Oh, fantasy is conformity. The kind we're unwilling to give up. When everything you have is drugs, everything looks like a brain - or some such analogy.

I love me some Vernon Howard.

No problem.

A historic moment

That's fair, I won't disagree. Still, take a moment to ground yourself. Lighten up on the alcohol. Let the nonsense go and let the chips fall where they may. Just consider that this mindset might have more to do with how you're using your mind than with anything the world or others are doing to you.

@Cornelia Watford Two points for Hufflepuff.

I wouldn't necessarily view it as a progression from desire to intention. What defines intention is whether it gets carried out. Desire is merely imagining something, and by itself, it doesn't require anything to be actualized. It's mentally wishing for something. Actually, it is you who causes it - by making real whatever you "tell yourself" you're going to do. "Just DO it!"

@Cornelia Watford Are you a professor at Hogwarts?

The use of euphemisms. Feigned or superficial modesty/humility. Feeling the collective need to tiptoe around one's intentions. Not saying what one means. Being indirect. Sleeping with clothes on.

@Natasha Tori Maru Noooooooo... I guess I was asking for it.

Yeah. Rocking Morrowind with 600+ mods.

You might have Secure Boot enabled. I'd turn it off. Firefox is an alternative, too. Some sort of screen dimming capability should be built into your desktop environment. And it really depends - if it's something like Mint, it should be pretty straightforward. Of course, expecting it to work exactly like Windows is going to create unrealistic expectations. Becoming familiar with the package manager and with basic terminal commands can be pretty useful. Otherwise, we can always consult Claude.

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Assuming that other species experience emotions, or experience them like we do. Projecting them onto other animals. Categorizing humans as outside of the 'animal' and 'ape' labels. This form of natural arrogance. Any cultural assumption - for better or for worse.

Adiós: to-God, or "towards God."

Showing him who the real alpha is.

Is thinking about doing something, or talking about it, the same activity as doing it? The action is what shows that intention was present. Oftentimes we confuse desiring something with having intended to carry it out.