UnbornTao

@Something Funny Fellowship? Yeah, I like LOTR, especially Return of the King. And don't kill me, but I'm also fond of Rings of Power.

By emotion, do you mean excitement?

Discipline is producing an outcome that wouldn't naturally come about as a result of your already established drives.

@mattm33 @Nemra

There's a meme right there.

It depends on how you hold the distinctions. Simply, if you do it, intent has occurred. No emotional component is necessary.

Breaking Bad? You should watch it first.

I wouldn't think of transcending suffering and becoming awakened to one's nature as necessarily the same pursuit. They may complement and empower each other, though. Other than that, if it is coming from some sort of real insight or breakthrough, then I'd say it is solid.

CINEMA

That such a community exists or can exist is already debatable.

I stumbled upon it yesterday. Looks promising.

Come on, try to polish up your posts a bit.

Yeah, that seems to come with the territory. On the other hand, his cult was problematic.

Does Perplexity's pro plan offer access to paid Claude and GPT?

Remember that many people like your song, including me!

It's already quite difficult by itself to find one deeply conscious individual, much less a community. I'd argue that looking for "turquoise" communities is a pipe dream, easily lends itself to fantasizing, and the idea of it would make the community quickly degrade into a social pretension or cult–basically because a model is a model, and people are people.

The Dark Night trilogy is pretty good in my view.

Hey, what are you thinking? Not my contribution.

- Meister Eckhart.

Is that a new sexual euphemism?

So, question your beliefs no matter their source.

How dare you! That's fair. Paying close attention helps in determining whether a communication is authentic, at least as a personal estimation. How this differs from chatter and entertainment is often clear. Not saying this necessarily applies to this case. How come his work is so extremely popular and followed? To a certain degree, I did–my state shifted to one of increased calm, relaxation, deeper presence. Yet what are we talking about here? Going to a spa is also relaxing. Aren't we looking into states? Another enlightened "nutcase" for us to listen to in this context:

You keep assuming that being motivated is needed in order to act. Intention arises at the same time as the action, and isn't emotionally-based; it's just doing what it (the intention) is about. Like I said, there's an element of want in that. Motivation is feeling emotionally compelled and moved to do something. You might not be motivated to read a book, yet intent to (hence want and do), since your writing assignment is due tomorrow, for example.

You don't need motivation to act; you just need to do it, which is the same as intending to do it. If you depend on motivation to act, you're going to act sparingly. It would be as if a writer only wrote whenever inspiration stroke. Contemplation exercise: Close your hand. Notice what had to occur in your experience for that to happen. An element of want might be necessary, yet what was the role of motivation? Was it needed? Did you feel like closing your hand? Can it be done whether you feel motivated to do it or not? What was required for the action to take place? Now, produce a desire to close your hand but don't do it. Notice: desire suggests action but doesn't demand it. As a matter of fact, we say that we desire many things which we really have no intention to actualize.