UnbornTao

We scratch when it's itchy. An analogy for self-survival. We pursue our needs, suffer (seems pretty popular), and want to live as ourselves. There might be more, or not. Taking this as a fun game.

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Made this first one:

Presumption and arrogance, mainly. It's much easier to take up the first story you're told or one you've come up with. In a sense, everyone is guilty of this to a degree. That is, until we start to seriously contemplate subjects we assumed to have known up until that point. The difference is that a minority wants to know while most people choose to remain ignorant--by taking tons of stuff completely for granted. I wonder whether the words ignore-ance and arrog-ance share etymological roots.

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Of course I missed it. It's only available on IOS.

Why the passive voice? Maybe it isn't gone; you may have just stopped generating interest. Rekindle your enthusiasm for things by discerning how you're using your mind. Focus on creating what you want. In any case, enjoy any state and contemplate it, which shifts your relationship towards it. Besides the advice provided by others (therapy, medication, lifestyle), a couple of episodes by Leo that might help you: The trap of the toxic life purpose Creation vs destruction Good luck.

Everything you think, feel, and do is something you want, on some level. Since you are experiencing it, it must be serving a purpose. You are generating it - whether consciously or not - which means, in some way, you actually want it to occur. For example, you might adopt a socially shy disposition and yet dislike it. Or you might go through an emotional state that you claim you didn’t really want - and yet you experienced it. Why is that? Could it be that your role in what you experience is more active than you think? Do you assume you are merely at the effect of the world - like a passive witness? Who else would be responsible for your experience? How does this dynamic unfold? Note: Responsibility here doesn’t mean blame, nor does it mean you’re responsible for everything that happens to you. It simply means that you are the source of your interpretations, thinking, feeling, reacting, and acting.

I thought I had already mentioned it, but definitely Dune 2. I was able to watch it alone in an empty cinema room. It was glorious.

Using Brave but completely missed that Playlist feature.

If you knew you'd be able to do it, experientially. Then, create desire and enthusiasm. What do you want to be up to? A hobby, a study, a business you're passionate about? Find out.

Looks awesome. Any monkeys around?

Hey, I was able to see her spin in both directions, mostly clock-wise.

These models are measuring something other than consciousness--awareness or cognition, perhaps, or what each theory considers to be "development". Consciousness can't be mapped and models are never true, even more so when it comes to enlightenment work. Although inventions, they may be useful.

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Keep it cool.

We can look into things beyond extrapolation and agreement, such as into the nature of objective reality. But this isn't as easy as making a conclusion. Open questions that come from a "real" experience are worth asking. So for example, what is an object?

@Javfly33 ? If what you want is intellectual titillation and entertainment, that's fine.

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@Javfly33 Standing on many assumptions isn't true questioning. Where are you coming from? We could start by asking what is life or what is a body, for example.

This is a mere intellectual question that is worthless. What will extrapolation get us? Sensible questions.

@UpperMaster I know it is appealing to think that an outside force is responsible for your purpose, as it takes you off the hook. It is comfortable. But is it true? If believing in this helps you in some way, that's fine too. Just don't conflate that wish with finding out what's true in the matter. How is purpose inherent? Where does it show up? Rumors and opinions aside, including your own, what is purpose, for real? Purpose is the reason why you take an action or course of action. For example, consider the different purposes that one might have for going to the gym. Regarding mission, again, where does it show up? Any form of meaning may arise in or as the relationship you establish between you and events and conditions. Does mission depend on something external that is to be "uncovered" by you or, to be simplistic, is it found in your mind? Getting ontological for a minute: What is, say, an object? Could Being (what is) be prior to value and meaning, hence prior to purpose and mission, too? Is purpose somehow inherent in the nature of that thing, or is it instead "projected after the fact"? Is purpose set in stone? What about the possibility of stuff being meaningless and without purpose?

What affords for happiness to start with?

That is how it occurs--as an activity generated by you--though we have yet to become conscious of that. What is purpose and how is it created independent of what others say? Better to delve into it.

Still better than Trump.