UnbornTao

Radical Honesty, Brad Blanton.

– Rinzai, founder of Rinzai Zen

@ZenSwift not specifically on communication, but Stewart Emery and Werner Erhard are pretty good and share your domain of mastery.

Non-violent communication. Contemplate what it really is. Practice it with others, by journaling, in your internal dialogue. Communication is accurately representing your experience as it is. Make a distinction between manipulation and honest communication.

A few of Cristiano Ronaldo's best goals: Also look for Messi's, I'm biased here (Madrid's fan).

A Gift to Bring You

Relax, and seek medical help if necessary. This forum is about conscious living and love.

Torturing a bull for entertainment is a cultural activity. The bull badly hurting the bullfighter is tragic.

I don't really know, but I suspect that on sunny days. But also, I'm now looking at the dark sky and it's pretty good. Personally I also love rainy days.

@Carl-Richard I can be happy, and see pictures. Are then color-blind people miserable?

Fear of the unknown and fear of success are nonsense. You're not afraid of either. What you're afraid of is possible unexpected harm and messing up, respectively.

What is listening, how to listen experientially and extract insights from communications, hearing another's experience as it is. What it takes to being ready and willing to grasp profound considerations. Like when the Buddha, in a gathering of monks, held up a flower and Ananda was the only one to grasp what he was trying to get across.

I don't know about the first one, but YouTube offers decent auto-generated subtitles.

I for sure am not. But I've had a couple of "sober" glimpses. Statistically speaking, not many. A handful plus Leo might be deeply conscious, but who knows? Especially as students, we can't really be certain whether those are authentic or not. It's best to be open and skeptical at the same time, and ultimately focus on your own work. You can always refer to reputable ancient masters like Buddha, Rinzai, Huang-Po, etc.

"If you do not uncover the inner sources of joy, the outer sources of joy will become the cause of your misery." - Milarepa.

"There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore." - Mark Twain.

Duplicate thread.

"Creation is never in the hands of the individual. It ceases entirely when individuality, with its capacities, gifts, techniques and so on, becomes dominant. Creation is the movement of the unknowable essence of the whole; it is never the expression of the part." – J. Krishnamurti.

Putting things together isn't creativity.

That'd be hilarious, and extremely surprising. Although they play well...