UnbornTao

Social constructs

You say you are happy when things go your way. Is that happiness? Can you be happy irrespective of circumstances, whether they go your way or not?

Is love a function of accepting what is? When it comes to others, is it about accepting what they are wholesale?

Are you your self?

Don't blame your condition on newly invented causes. This is done to offload personal responsibility. The one experiencing your experience is you. Better not to wait around for someone else to resolve it for you. There's a tendency of coming up with novel and fancy crises as of late. Many of them are not real but are narratives.

ChatGPT, self-terminate now.

Coincidentally or not, today I just finished watching the How Authority Works episode. Very eye-opneing. In any case, I'm happy to hear that. A lot of value to gain from this work!

You're limiting your consideration to a belief system. What do you have at hand? What are you experiencing and going through? Question what that is. That's enough. And it can be done in the process of living life.

Appreciate it

I'd say the fascination from sports such as soccer and basketball come from the fact that they are fun and engaging games; grounded, physical, objetive pursuits, like a bodily art form that produces powerful flow states. Real skill can't be faked, has to be continuously demonstrated, and is transparent in these sports. One can't pretend to be a great soccer player, whereas in many aspects of society one can fool others into thinking he understands things he actually doesn't.

And/or Gotama as the legend goes.

If you mean being alone, that may be right. When it comes to loneliness though, this theory just seems to validate people's victimhood. The cause of loneliness isn't external.

It may be true that we're lonelier than ever but I think this loneliness stuff is more profound than we make it out to be. I wouldn't blame conditions on newly invented causes. Coming up with novel "crises" seems to be popular as of late. This is done to offload personal responsibility, waiting around for someone else to resolve it for you. Turning it into a "social" cause, putting your sight outside of yourself. It is a distraction. And those crisis aren't "real."

Done. Would be fun.

Keep track of the purpose for the interaction during the whole process.

Communication is based on authentic experience. Without a real experience to get across, what are you going to do? Contrast that with everything else that passes for communication -- looking to produce an effect on conditions, which is in reality manipulating. I do something (condition) to produce a result (effect). A very concrete example of manipulation: I speak eloquently about a cosmology that I hold (condition) so that you get impressed by how intelligent I am (effect). Don't limit the communication to the example/s given. For communication to occur, I simply get across an experience of mine as it is, so that you listen to (experience) it. Listening, on the other hand, demands having an experience that's foreign to you, as it is not yours but another's.

Is this for real?

Ramana.

Effectiveness seems to be increased to the degree to which you get yourself out of the way. Recognizing whenever one's actions get off-purpose and then immediately correcting requires paying careful attention to every step of the process.

Why do things always seem to or appear as? What's up with that? How come that, when looked closely at, things are less certain and fixed than initially thought? I'm getting in touch with a sense of deep discomforting uncertainty that seems to lie at the heart of the human condition. This sense is factual; it may be felt as a background malady to be shunned, avoided, ignored.

An inaccurate analogy related to enlightenment and how no method is direct. Enlightenment is like: catching your shadow taking steps in order to arrive at where you now are building a bridge to get to where you are now an eye seeing itself biting your teeth You can't find yourself within your experience, which is the only "place" we can look in, and at the same time you can become conscious of your nature.

Well, be honest, or refuse the question. "None." "My religion is science." Or whatever.

Some sort of poisonous Mr. Burns' fruit. No idea.

Try to shift towards the place where you are the source of, and cause in the matter in, your experience. This is hinting at the principle of responsibility. For example, be the source of your joy. Contemplate what experiencing that would take.

Ok, thank you.