UnbornTao

@Javfly33 OK, contemplating what life is from scratch is a better endeavor.

It is a story coming from an Indian cosmology. It claims that someone who is thought to be "advanced" is believed to continue to "function" after death. Fantasy aside, what it is essentially saying is that someone died.

I wouldn't engage in fantastical thinking.

It's a Breaking Bad meme.

"Jesus Christ Marie, they're minerals!"

This one. We assume that being alive is the same as knowing what life is.

Get the nature of life first

In that case "to personally understand a fact" may be a more apt expression. "Direct" may better be used for existential matters and breakthroughs, in my view. If direct means (is being defined as) the thing itself, I assume that doesn't pertain to the relative domain.

"Sanity is a function of mind; what's true is true already." - Anonymous.

Tiramisù recipe. https://chefjeanpierre.com/recipes/dessert/easy-tiramisu-recipe/

What is 'a tree'? What is there when both your knowledge of it and the interpretation of what's perceived to be there are set aside?

@zurew i might elaborate and engage with your points, but the essence is what I wrote above.

Directly grasp is used when referring to kenshos or absolute matters. That apple assertion sounds weird. You might say you concluded, inferred from facts, believe, etc. but I don't know whether one could directly grasp the health of foods or relative matters. Yes, we can easily fool ourselves. Certainly in my estimation most people are describing relative things (experience or state) when attempting to get across their presumed awakening. The bottom line is that this breakthrough (which is rare) can't be accurately communicated so it must be validated for oneself. After all, someone like Gautama might have been hallucinating, deluded, lying. To be clear I'm not claiming to know my nature--I've had a couple of what I consider to be glimpses, into who I am. This is a trap. We would be analyzing the finger instead of looking at the moon. What if we call it blueberry jam? Whatever we have of the absolute is not it. Yet, a metaphor: everything within the ocean is the relative domain. Now, imagine an infinite ocean and it would be the absolute. Being is what is. Experience is indirect and a function of perceptive organs. Direct experience is a misnomer: it is being the thing contemplated, recognizing its nature as not different from your own. I actively avoid talking in a way that feeds fantasy, so don't take these too seriously. This is another way to say that intellectual understanding doesn't mean you actually get it--and this distinction isn't clear to many. What's true? That's the gist of it.

It is empty inside. Dad joke of the day.

Stinks

Why not one of the latest M4 or M4 Pro MacBook Pro's? If you are okay with macOS and aren't going to game on it, in terms of power/efficiency, durability, and especially battery life, they're great. Also, long term software updates. But it'd have to be one with 24gb of unified RAM--it's presumably quite efficient too. I'd also consider the path Windows is going down with the invasive AI, spyware, etc.

"I'm naked on the middle of the street right now and I'm not even on LSD".

Exactly

No lasagna for you.

Low quality post. If you'd like, start a new thread but this time being clear on what you are trying to get across.

Love the passion and enthusiasm; they are contagious.

One reason a depressive-nihilistic stance toward life might be adopted is to justify one's lack of action. What motivates this stance is a bias toward what feels agreeable and comfortable - not something inflicted upon you by circumstances or the world. Why take action when it's far more convenient to undermine the reasoning behind any effort in the first place - except, of course, for the effort of your own undermining? You may hope or set out to find a reason, motive, or inherent meaning that moves you to act, believing such things to be discoverable somewhere, as if hidden under rocks. In doing so, what you may have actually decided is to remain complacent, pursuing immediate gratification - which, coincidentally, is not dismissed as readily as other pursuits - while avoiding confrontation and labor. This negative viewpoint keeps you comfortable, as it does not challenge your unconsciousness, passivity, or defeatist attitude. Yet this mindset is still rooted in your own agenda and 'selfish' behavior. Ask yourself why you choose to adopt it - if, indeed, you do. Realizing that you are the source of this behavior is the first step toward ending it. If acting depressed is something you do, you can stop generating it. Doing so requires becoming aware of the root of the acting itself. Also, recognize that you want to experience it. Since it occurs within your own experience, it serves a purpose for you - albeit an unconscious one. Imagining a hopeless future is a key component of this behavior. To change it, either create an image of a positive future for yourself - or stop imagining a future altogether. What's harder to notice about this disposition is that non-meaning cannot be negative. If you hear it as negative, you are still operating within the same paradigm. Likewise, meaning, as a complementary process, implies that something exists before meaning is assigned - it is added after the fact. It does not mean anything that it does not mean anything! Obviously, creating something requires taking responsibility for its actualization. It could be said that life is a blank slate upon which you can build any meaning you choose. As with play, the core motivation behind your actions could simply be the enjoyment of the process itself - playing the game mindfully, with sensitivity and awareness. This is not to say that inventions should be dismissed; they can undoubtedly provide value. So by all means, produce functional things, whatever function they're meant to serve. Given that a game is ultimately played for its own sake, it is not treated as something that will bring about an idealized sense of personal fulfillment. This frees us to engage with it fully. Existence itself may ultimately be meaningless - like any creation. The point is to play the game wholeheartedly, master it, and, when all is said and done, put the pieces back in the box. Otherwise, you might as well enjoy your actively depressive stance - since, after all, it is meaningful to you. ---- feedback: the text is too intellectual and feels too closed-off, righteous, and pedantic. It presents many assertive claims without elaboration or adequate explanation. Need to open it up a bit while keeping it grounded on real insights.

Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Good question and a better one to ask oneself: What is greed?