UnbornTao

ChatGPT, self-terminate now.

Coincidentally or not, today I just finished watching the How Authority Works episode. Very eye-opneing. In any case, I'm happy to hear that. A lot of value to gain from this work!

You're limiting your consideration to a belief system. What do you have at hand? What are you experiencing and going through? Question what that is. That's enough. And it can be done in the process of living life.

Appreciate it

I'd say the fascination from sports such as soccer and basketball come from the fact that they are fun and engaging games; grounded, physical, objetive pursuits, like a bodily art form that produces powerful flow states. Real skill can't be faked, has to be continuously demonstrated, and is transparent in these sports. One can't pretend to be a great soccer player, whereas in many aspects of society one can fool others into thinking he understands things he actually doesn't.

And/or Gotama as the legend goes.

If you mean being alone, that may be right. When it comes to loneliness though, this theory just seems to validate people's victimhood. The cause of loneliness isn't external.

It may be true that we're lonelier than ever but I think this loneliness stuff is more profound than we make it out to be. I wouldn't blame conditions on newly invented causes. Coming up with novel "crises" seems to be popular as of late. This is done to offload personal responsibility, waiting around for someone else to resolve it for you. Turning it into a "social" cause, putting your sight outside of yourself. It is a distraction. And those crisis aren't "real."

Done. Would be fun.

Is this for real?

Ramana.

Effectiveness tends to increase in proportion to how much you get yourself out of the way. In other words, surrendering your "person" to the demands of what you're doing - whether it's an activity, a project, a field, a business, a study, or a relationship - allows you to be more effective (aligned with the purpose of the undertaking.) Ask yourself: "What does it ask of me?" Rather than the other way around. On a somewhat related note, recognizing when your actions veer off-purpose - and immediately correcting course - requires careful attention to every step of the process, not just the final outcome.

Why do things always seem to or appear as? Is there something beyond our impression of things? In the end, isn't that what we have: the impressions that things make on us? Why is it that, when examined closely, things are far less certain and fixed than they first appear? I guess the questions being asked here are what substance and appearance are.

Various inaccurate analogies for "enlightenment" - illustrating how no method is direct. Direct consciousness is like: catching your own shadow taking steps to arrive where you already are building a bridge to reach the place you’re standing on an eye trying to see itself biting your own teeth You can’t find yourself within experience, which is the only place you can look, and yet, perhaps paradoxically, you can become conscious of your nature.

Well, be honest, or refuse the question. "None." "My religion is science." Or whatever.

Some sort of poisonous Mr. Burns' fruit. No idea.

Try to shift into the place where you are the source of - and the cause in the matter of - your experience. For example, deliberately create a joyful state now as a real experience. It is always the case that you generate it, but now you're invited to do it consciously. Play around with this concept. Be enthusiastic now - independent of circumstances.

Ok, thank you.

You might not be your self, but ok. Hey, enjoy your process.

Haha, what I'm saying is that the way you relate to something can cause unnecessary suffering.

I'm suggesting that you might be doing something similar to that.

I could take an experience of a simple headache and turn it into a fantastical story where I'm either a hero, a victim, etc. When having a headache: "I feel my kundalini awakening, it's real and it's my baseline, I feel it, it is prior to my brain, my body resists the experience, I can't do anything about it. But what does it mean? My third chakra has awakened. It feels like my sense of self is concentrated on the back of my head and might dissolve in one and a half weeks. The sensation is caused by my intense meditation session that I did yesterday, and because I ran naked on the street on a cold winter evening. My self is expanding into infinity, and I know it's real because it's there, I feel it, even though there's pain. My body loves the energy that's being rushing to my brain, and it seems to sustain it. Feels good." And I might well experience that as real. Thanks to the cosmology that I hold, I turned a headache into a wonderful kundalini awakening. Now I'm this higher being, able to expand my self thanks to that remarkable realization. And it was just a headache to begin with.

In what way am I being such that: I seem to be stuck? I’m approaching this (experience, event, person, object, whatever) the way I am - whether powerful, weak, afraid, brave, reserved, curious, confrontational, etc.? On another note, the following dynamic seems to be self-perpetuating: I assume X about myself, then act like X, and am therefore perceived by others as X, which gives me feedback that validates my initially adopted self-image: “I am indeed X. See? This [response, effect, circumstance, character trait] is the proof.” A reinforcing loop.

@Danioover9000 @Carl-Richard @zurew In short, what are they talking about?

Stop making shit up. Are you willing to listen and to experience something new, or do you want to keep resisting and insisting on your way of going about this? Are you open to moving from the position you find yourself in, or is this just complaining?