UnbornTao

It's the line between an opinion and a personal encounter. Completely different worlds. I believe in the moon versus I've been on the moon - something like that. And yet it is easy for us to believe that things are true which we haven't gone through, as our minds can fabricate and conceive states and experiences consistent with the way we regard X and Y. Add to this the way we interpret what 'going through something' means. But in theory they're night and day. This belief business is more generally directed at us, the listeners.

Presumably a scientific digital illustration and artistic representation by Russell Kightley.

Through discipline and will, then - for example?

Good to know. Also, it might be an artist's rendition, not a "photograph." But cool nonetheless.

Wayyy too abstract, in my opinion.

Thanks. I meant to say Buddhist, not Nuddhist. Freudian slip, I guess.

Fair enough, although it is a rather important detail to disclose, in my view. If the representation were somewhat accurate, that would be even better. Could mention that creative liberties have been taken.

What about less obvious cults? Can you find some on Christian subgroups or Zen-like sects? Or perhaps Hindu/Buddhist-based?

Ahh, fair enough.

Is it AI? Curious to know.

In a way, it would be hard not to do that, unless you traveled to several countries as a kid and stayed there for a while, I presume.

Nice, good insight. To make it a bit more concrete, what would programming oneself mean in this context?

What about cooking a chickpea stew?

@integral Either rat milk or get out of my house, hippy!

'Spiritual' mental gymnastics.

Might as well be. It's quite convenient too, as he's talking about his own model. There's no denying he was profoundly conscious, but I'm not that familiar with the model. There seems to be a ton of rhetoric and myth around his persona, which I find unnecessary and frankly annoying. This tends to cultivate a culture of followers. I would say it isn't about the content per se, or any assertion made, but whether - well, it is a belief or not. How could we tell? Of course this can be a tricky call to make sometimes. It seems to me this belief-game is what we as a whole are up to in spirituality. And disbelieving is, again, more of the same.

Meh. Byproduct of the drugs.

No, thanks. I'd rather have cranberry juice

Sorry to hear. No advice to give, really. Love them, be with them. Take care of yourself.

Was this written by AI? But yes, definitely, embrace some degree of boredom once in a while. That's the direction nobody wants to look - of painful crudity and dreary living. This 'dreary' sentiment may underlie our resistance to monotony and boredom.

Red Dead 2, although I've finished it already. Currently playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and liking it a lot so far.

Imagine becoming THIS conscious: