UnbornTao

"Buy your own water bottle"

Ha, ok.

@Inliytened1 @AerisVahnEphelia You guys are full of it.

Aversion (wanting to avoid) itself shows up as a struggle.

@MellowEd May be time to shift from a childish relationship to the matter to a more serious one. Why are you asking? What do you hope to get out of answers? Regardless of your purpose for asking, first look into what you are, then it might be useful to tackle what life is.

You'll intellectualize, but focus on contemplating it; let it be completely, feel it, and ask what it is and what's it doing? Look into your experience of the emotion itself rather than on your concept about it. The emotion occurs in a different domain than the intellectualizing, so contemplating it requires being where the emotion is felt.

Without knowing what suffering and ourselves are, first we should have those handled.

No.

Extreme introvert. Like to be reclusive most of the time.

What is shame?

I think posts such as these aren't needed.

Depends on what purpose you set for yourself. Only you can do that. Recognize beliefs. Study stuff. Be curious.

That works, too.

Not familiar with the work of Sam Harris but stumbled upon this chatbot and am having fun with it. https://kronikle.ai/sam_harris/chat

If you're dead at some point you were alive. It's the same dynamic.

Wasn't intentional

Fear is a basic human experience. It is a relationship you adopt to the future. We take ourselves to be someone or something, defending that involves fear. Everything other than you is potentially a threat. Fear is very easy to access and generate. Seems like as long as self-survival is your operating principle, fear is present, to a greater or lesser degree.

A conscious leader operates from integrity, is committed to something greater than herself, and is at the source of creating her vision--is cause in the matter, responsible. He is also authentic. Commensurate with integrity, he keeps his word and agreements. He is loyal to the stand he's taken on. This is mostly theoretical. The trick is being a leader, as opposed to superficially adopting characteristic traits. Then your acting aligns with your way of being as a natural result of your way of being.

They can, who knows? Other than grasping stuff yourself, every belief and conviction is subject to being wrong. What isn't is genuine personal insight and breakthroughs.

Get what you and another are. Everything else is worthless philosophizing compared to that.

Get what you and another are. Everything else is worthless philosophizing compared to that.

This is an entertaining game we're playing here.

Who isn't?