UnbornTao

@aurum whole, unbroken, complete, integral. A vase is either whole or it has a crack, at which point it is no longer complete. Its function is already diminished or broken. A perspective is partial. How do you define whole?

Then it isn't whole nor complete by definition.

Cute.

I was thinking about that, too.

Nice, thanks. Do your eyes stop working? It is independent from experience and already the case.

No.

What is concept?

If you hold yourself as fundamentally unworthy or unlovable, what effects do those beliefs have on your life and relationships? You might only want to relate to people that don't love you. Whenever you feel loved by the other, you might unconsciously sabotage the relationship. After all, if you assume yourself to be fundamentally unlovable, being loved might threaten that assumption. You'd rather be right and suffer as a result than being proven wrong, yet receive love. What are dynamics such as this one about? Self-sabotage? Limiting beliefs?

"What you think, you become." - Gautama. I'm not talking about a belief system. Leaving the fantasizing aside, there might be a principle at play here. As a small example, pay attention whenever you start the day angry, distracted, etc., and carry that out throughout the day. What consequences does this disposition have on your experience? What results does it produce in your life and those of others?

Some would say blue. I myself don't pay much attention to that. The good samurais lived according to powerful principles such as discipline, honor and integrity. They lived with the presence of death. There's much to learn from that. A model is a model while living with integrity and the reality of death kicks your ass. Loving the show so far.

Banana. Don't extrapolate.

Don't know if you're being sarcastic or not. It can be called however you want, really. I mean it as a profound consciousness of one's nature.

Contemplate why you feel this way.

And explanations are just that.

- Helen Keller, The World I live in (1910).

Is he actually "enlightened"?

The guy's intellectually brilliant. I wonder how much of what he talks about he's directly conscious of.

GTA VI? None at all. I don't think so.

Physical?

Great books I prefer to read physical. Makes the experience more real and grounded for me. If I'm serious about studying a book, physical wins.

Stop thinking. Okay try again.

Why talk at all? There was never anything we could say about the nature of anything in the first place, from a certain perspective.

Diogenes looking for an honest man.

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