UnbornTao

I came across this unlisted video while doing some research. It is a sharp observation. (And notice that, at the same time, they still largely fell into the trap they were cautioning against) This can be an extremely subtle and insidious dynamic - in many different domains. Do you think this video, and the very need and impulse to believe, doesn't currently apply to you?

Is it AI? Curious to know.

In a way, it would be hard not to do that, unless you traveled to several countries as a kid and stayed there for a while, I presume.

Nice, good insight. To make it a bit more concrete, what would programming oneself mean in this context?

What about cooking a chickpea stew?

@integral Either rat milk or get out of my house, hippy!

'Spiritual' mental-gymnastics.

Might as well be. It's quite convenient too, as he's talking about his own model. There's no denying he was profoundly conscious, but I'm not that familiar with the model. There seems to be, too, a ton of rhetoric and myth around his persona, which I find unnecessary and frankly annoying. This tends to cultivate a culture of followers. I would say it isn't about the content per se, or any assertion made, but whether - well, it is a belief or not. How could we tell? Of course this can be a tricky call to make sometimes. It seems to me this belief-game is what we as a whole are up to in spirituality. And disbelieving is, again, more of the same.

No, thanks. I'd rather have cranberry juice

Sorry to hear. No advice to give, really. Love them, be with them. Take care of yourself.

Was this written by AI? But yes, definitely, embrace some degree of boredom once in a while. That's the direction nobody wants to look - of painful crudity and dreary living. This 'dreary' sentiment may underlie our resistance to monotony and boredom.

Red Dead 2, although I've finished it already. Currently playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and liking it a lot so far.

Imagine becoming THIS conscious:

What comes to mind right now is having degraded my ability to focus deeply and consistently for hours on self-chosen tasks without external incentive. An ability I naturally had, and cultivated, as a kid. Now I just have to develop it once again.

You enjoy it, so that's what matters. People here find different uses for their journals, with "emptying out" being one of the big benefits. It can be used to empower learning, sensitivity, accountability, etc. - as your assessment shows. On the other hand, why are you asking for validation? That's WRONG!!!

When were you going to open an OnlyFans again?

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The principle still applies.

Meh. You can always speak and behave consistently with the ideals of what others commonly hold as "higher consciousness." This doesn't necessarily mean that it is true and real and based on genuine consciousness. It just means that you like what you are told, and that your images of awakening and similar are validated. Adopting behaviors that don't come naturally in order to appear more conscious than one actually is - that is pretending.

I think you are comparing apples and oranges. The point of "becoming conscious" in this context is that you are in touch with the nature of something beyond any possible state or condition you might be in. Whether you have cancer, are bored or angry, you are "conscious" of the subject matter, and circumstances shouldn't alter that fact if it is a solid apprehension. By "consciousness", it seems to me that people generally refer to their experience and the ability of their minds to make sense of it - cognition, in other words. When we inspect our own experiential understanding very soberly, we observe that we are quite sloppy in our distinctions among each of these, which suggests we may not know what we are really talking about. We can't even make an honest assessment in the first place, as we're likely to still be operating intellectually or "philosophically", failing to see what is in front of us - in our experience. It might be that when sick, our "bodily" and mental attention is more fully focused on the present moment, although I don't call this "becoming more conscious" but rather being mindful, sensitive, paying attention. That said, whatever increases one's sensibility in that domain of experience is certainly a welcome change.

Hmm, reasonable questions. So: Who's angry? Why would you be angry? What are you angry about? Something to look into.

There's a discussion going on in this thread about anger: Also, fuck you. -- That said, why do you get angry? How do you see people and situations such that the end result is one of feeling angry? (Not that anger is good or bad, mind you.) Also, besides suppressing it or enacting it, can you feel it without acting it out? Obviously it seems convincing to us that, especially with our more volatile emotions, others or "the world" are at fault, and we're just simply reacting - as victims to the stimulus. This might not be entirely true, even though we may strongly believe this is the case.