UnbornTao

It seems to boil down to opinion. What you decide to eat is ultimately a result of opinion, whether informed, healthy, or not. Is a crocodile eating a grandma ethical?

It's fine; let the emotions come and pass. Exercise and do relaxing activities. You can contemplate god and love when you're emotionally grounded and stable; meanwhile, realize that pain is compounded, and may be generated, by our complementary conceptual baggage that is added onto its raw experience. So hey, enjoy life. Everyone has had similarly painful moments in their lives. It's a matter of letting ourselves go through whatever we need to go through, learn from those experiences, and use them to become a developed, resilient individual. Then, we can look forward to new goals in life. Basically, give yourself the time to disentangle from the situation; soon, you'll see it with much less drama and more perspective, which is freeing in itself.

Dubstep, of course.

The reality of death terrifies us. It is the antithesis of self.

Then delve into the material. Enjoy it as if it were a hobby.

Snob elephant. Cats, dogs, chimpanzees, dolphins, and birds presumably seem to respond to music, too.

Those bastards.

What music do elephants like?

No magic pill. Perhaps consume foods that promote the brain's health such as blueberries, tea, dark chocolate. These processes have to be dealt with prior to finding yourself pressured against the wall. In any case, delve into the material and enjoy it.

Bad and good are relative. There're also good people.

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Outline of key points by Claude Opus:

Sure.

I wonder what an optimal use of AI would be. One that serves honesty and accuracy, without being overly agreeable, validating our biases, suspicions and unfounded beliefs. Not saying this is necessarily the case here, just curious.

You seem to be talking specifically about perception rather than consciousness. I haven't made a distinction between these two in my experience yet. Perceptive organs appear to be sourcing what you identify as, or assume to be, yourself, hence the sense of being located behind the eyes and between the ears. What you refer to as when you say "spread equally" may not be consciousness but likely feeling-sense or awareness perhaps. It's best to contemplate openly, without presuming what things are from the beginning. Let's look at perception with the following exercise: Isolate your experience of a static and small object. Start by distinguishing between perception of the object itself, and other added activities such as meaning, association, use, value, worth, feeling, and thought. What is perceived to be there? Without additional activities placed on top of bare perception, try at best you can to distinguish between the act of perceiving itself, and everything else such as thinking, feeling, meaning, language, etc.

Some people are more effective than others - that's not a coincidence.

We already take action in spite of our fundamental ignorance, so your worry isn't warranted. What works doesn't have to be true in any existential sense - and it isn't, since it is an activity. Action is action. As long as it is effective, then it does its job when it comes to our daily living.

No requisites, except getting it.

Shogun!

"Reality conspires to make you enlightened," or something like that, can't make good woo woo myself.

We may be out of luck.

Don't be reckless, guys, thinking that an extreme ascetic ritual will make you enlightened or some such. Occasional and moderate fasting may be physically and mentally beneficial, but if starving yourself for long periods got you enlightened, neanderthals would have started a renaissance. Certain practices may promote discipline and focus but no practice can produce awakening. So, be safe and reasonable out there.

Okay, you now can take a serious look into what each of them are. Regarding uncertainty, there might be a bit of superficiality and pretending with what you say in that it isn't bad but a profound condition that's the case already. We can go deeper with our uncertainty, making it real and palpable in our experience, not as a conclusion or intellectual artifice.

It's worthless and most likely hearsay, too, even to the sources from which you heard it. Tackle what being and experience are for real by contemplating them. It's no use explaining a simplistic phrase and confusing an intellectual conclusion with a genuine personal understanding of the reality or condition of something.

What do you mean by passing? I smell a belief system of some sort. In any case, whatever your state is, enjoy it.