UnbornTao

The what?

Sure, still we shouldn't consider that activity as anything more than jerking off, ultimately. More than giving a description of it to ballpark one's mind is silly. What's there to say? Unless for entertainment purposes, no use in that. Throw away what you've got of it, it gets in the way. Nothing is the best place from which to come at this matter; unfortunately we've got less than nothing -- convictions, conclusions. preferences, opinions, ideals, knowledge and assumptions. These are more ignorance.

I said certain things seem to help in the relative domain, not that there are necessarily factors involved. "Indicative" is an interpretation and a distinction made in the relative domain. Everything except direct is stuck in a world of relativity. It's analogous to waking up from a dream; whatever is done within it is done within it, and isn't the waking up. I'm being pedantic, the realization itself is what I'm referring to. The mind wants to replicate direct consciousness, inventing a way to capture it. Unfortunately this goes beyond the mind's job. Next time, you attempt to reproduce what your mind think happened before it -- the interpreted factors and conditions -- and it doesn't work. This basically means that you can't find yourself. Wherever you look is the domain of experience, it all occurs in experience. And somehow awakening, a sudden leap in consciousness, can happen. What the mind does with the realization isn't the consciousness itself. This is a tricky thing to recognize, I'm coming from intellect here. Yes; on the other hand, just a guy who got his nature. It shows the nature of the realization, and that it is possible. "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" - Dogen.

Lots of people would agree that PC gaming is better in many ways than consoles.

Isn't Edge a bloated mess? Not to mention privacy stuff. Firefox, Brave and Thorium are decent options imo. Not yet. An Arch-based distro would likely be a better option for gaming, not sure. The issue is how much tinkering is needed on Linux for some use cases. Gaming on Windows is easy to set up and use.

If you want to, yeah. Whatever works best for you.

@Thought Art Ok, thanks for sharing, keep it up.

Focus on mastering what you're interested in, whatever skill you feel drawn to. Start now and keep moving towards that.

Notice whether you play the game of life to create what you want or to avoid loss. Avoiding loss shows up in various ways: Don’t play any game. Don’t take anything up. Be complacent. The reasoning here is: if I don’t play, I can’t lose. Avoid completing anything. You can’t lose if it’s left unfinished. Do it half-heartedly. “But I didn’t really try” is yet another way to avoid loss. Keep others from winning. You appear to lose when others win--so you sabotage their efforts to keep your position of relative safety. If no one wins, then (you think) you haven’t lost. Play the nice guy/girl role. Pretend to like everyone, be nice to everyone, so we can all silently agree that you haven’t lost. It’d be rude for them to tell you otherwise. Turn yourself into the game. Become a problem so that you become the center of attention. Get sick, throw tantrums, destroy the game--whatever it takes to make others stop playing and take care of you. Adopt the judge’s role. Play “the righteous judge.” Since you’re not actively creating the results you want, you attack others’ vitality and enthusiasm instead. Criticize, blame, denigrate, troll, sabotage, act righteous, “debunk”--so your relative position appears good and “right,” despite producing no significant result in your own life. Does any of the above resonate with you? Have you encountered people who operate this way?

On one of my virtual machines, Edge and Onedrive are uninstalled, and lots of services are put to Manual so that they aren't running in the background except when needed, thanks to a debloat tool. Understandably, Windows and macOS has some basic telemetry services built-in. How bad is it for Windows? Especially if Windows 12 starts getting serious with web tech and Copilot... Do you game on Mint? If so, how's that going?

Excuses are used to justify your behavior, making you appear 'good' and right in your own mind so you can continue doing what you’re doing. They’re a way of avoiding responsibility--letting you off the hook. What if you stopped making excuses? Consider simply acknowledging to yourself what you do--and what you don’t, with no story to explain or justify it. "I did this - or didn't - and am willing to face the consequences, whether negative or positive."

Moved to Entertainment section.

Do you? A bit tired, perhaps, not worse. Or rather relieved, like after a good sneeze.

We usually are actively looking for things to believe in! That’s what humans seem to be up to, for the most part—especially in spiritual or philosophical circles. Believing is easy and convenient, while genuine investigation is challenging. It demands discipline, time, and effort, and it can threaten our existing worldview, self-identity, and attachments.

fair enough.

It's an extrapolation based on the way you come across, not everything is a belief. Being grounded is useful.

gotta need a 4090 for that.

A reasonable one. Sounds like you're coming from belief systems. We assess things to happen, getting it as itself is getting its nature. If that isn't held as possible for whatever reason, no point in looking into things.

What would you be surrendering to? Better ask what it is first.

What's his secret chilli recipe?

You don't know that, that's what I mean by assuming things. You're welcome.

@Princess Arabia To be clear, I'm not undermining the influence of belief. They can be powerful, and that's what I'm alluding to. I meant it, enjoy your beliefs, also as a way to acknowledge that that's the domain we're dealing with. What makes a difference are your actions and disposition. If belief can be powerful, imagine encountering something as is. Assumptions make that experience more difficult. In any case, you'll do what you'll do, if you want it to be powerful make sure it is indeed powerful.

Has someone compiled every new summary into an up-to-date document?

@Princess Arabia I'm just pointing out that I see most of these as superficial and lightweight. Maybe that's why they're so popular in the first place. As I'm biased towards what's real, that's what I recommend. Otherwise enjoy your beliefs.

@Salvijus Okay, thank you.