UnbornTao

Can your attempts at "resolving" life be effective? It's like being blind and, wanting to recover your sight, going about changing your surroundings. In this analogy, what's addressed are superficial manifestations. With this approach, the condition or foundational elements that source our so-called struggle in the first place are left intact. Feeling inadequate and doubting your "worthiness", you may, for example, set out to become physically strong, gain popularity, or make lots of money in an attempt to pacify your inner insecurity and compensate for your feeling of lack, hoping that these accomplishments will resolve you. I'm not disparaging such efforts but rather directing us to investigating the motives behind them. I'm not saying to doubt and to use that doubt to undermine your doing things. Essentially what I'm saying is: do what you want, and also be clear on why you pursue it. How can we approach real change and transformation? What's my approach to life? Is it to avoid loss? What challenges do I continuously come across? How do I deal with situations, challenges, events? What is the root cause of X or Y? How does the condition exist? Where does it start and end? What is it made out of? This moves us towards a freeing direction.

Macho macho man

Seems to be mostly unnecessary and self-created. But the reality of this eludes us.

The mind is constantly struggling for certainty and safety.

AVOID. Stick to the relatively safe psychedelics.

By not doing it.

Is Madrid going to win the Champions League?

Perception is a meaningless phenomenon.

Jesus wasn't a christian!

Enjoying the Shogun TV show.

The Buddha had several enlightenments before his awakening under the Bodhi tree. This suggests that paradoxically, one can become more deeply conscious of the absolute, and also that transcending life and death requires more than a few enlightenment experiences. Maybe.

@bebotalk Keep to the guidelines.

@bebotalk Easy.

Hmm. I think it's useful to first see it in yourself. Then, you can see how you actually love everyone, and so do others. Although this isn't evident or obvious. It's more existential. A bit like: without another, I can't exist. So my existence is fundamentally shaped by "other." Something to investigate.

Just started watching True Vs False Skepticism.

Do it anyways.

Whatever you have about the absolute is not it. Notice how language subtly influences the way you think of it as "something" that is huge, as "lots and lots". It's useful to check yourself on that.

— Rinzai

What is worth and what is life? We've got work to do!

[Fill in with correct answer]. What does hearing an assertion change in your consciousness? At best it opens up new doors; you may even get a hint of its reality experientially. In any case, it's best to get serious with grasping one's nature, and that of life, for yourself independent of confabulation.

What do you mean?

@Razard86 Do you think it's a matter of hearing and understanding an answer? If it were that easy...

"So I robbed that bank as you told me... now what?"

What is desire? Can you find pain behind it?