UnbornTao

Creating purpose seems to be a necessary aspect of being happy in life.

As long as you're clear on what those terms are referring to, why not use them? You can be pragmatic. Each of us must grasp who and what one is for oneself, existentially.

"- Pacify my mind, master. - First show me your mind - I can't find it - There, I pacified it."

Looking forward to this book: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-age/ from author Michael Greger.

I've been noticing the self-contracting nature of pain, tension, trauma and the like, and how they affect how open you're willing to be afterwards. Some serious courage is required in order to transcend this limitation. Personally, this turmoil has made it harder for me to open up. It has made me rigid and less tolerant, and frankly a bit bitter. I'm interested in studying how stress affects the body. With no attachment to self-identity and life story, conflict and drama are more easily seen as conceptual fabrications, and as ultimately unneeded. Of course, hearing this and understanding it rationally is the easy part. Grounding the investigation on your experience isn't necessarily easy but doing so allows for freedom from it. Also, personal reminder to start practicing integral communication. Might write about that at some point.

When you exercise, the body releases tension and stress and is able to calm down. It frees you from intellect and grounds you in your body. It increases presence. Something like that.

mostly practice. Learn to relax and to be calm around women.

Resell value, long-term software support, maybe increased security and privacy (due to its closed nature). Also, you get to own a device with the fancy apple logo By spying I mean telemetry, which Microsoft does with Windows since it became free. Apple probably does it to some degree too but has less incentive to. I use Android, btw.

Apple hardware is fine for the most part. Their custom silicon on Mac is great. Software is restrictive, though. Android, Windows and Linux are much more open platforms. About macOS, it isn't that good in terms of customization, window management, multitasking, gaming, etc. but I'm fine with that. It's stable, consistent and seamless. But hey, Apple is called a walled garden for a reason. macOS likely doesn't spy on the user as much as Windows does. Still, I'm keeping an eye on the Asahi Linux development.

Am I the only one who doesn't really know but pretends like he does? Reminder to be rigorous and ruthlessly honest with oneself. Once the condition is accepted, changing it becomes possible. Start by asking yourself: What am I really conscious of? Do I grasp who and what I am?

Those videos are enough for the theory.

I see. In any case, smart guy.

Not many.

Good question. I'd recommend starting with Adyashanti. He offers straightforward, clear, zen-like assistance. And contemplation.

Actualized Clips is the name of the official channel run by Leo. The one you talk about is run by another person. I think we talked about it in a thread not long ago. He might resume posting on the Actualized Clips channel at some point.

@Water by the River okay.

Haven't looked into it yet, but I hear tell Kant might have also had an enlightenment or two.

I assume Jed McKenna.

George Carlin.

@Water by the River Sharing a cosmology is nothing compared to being grounded on personal experience. Be honest.

Not legal in Vegas yet.

That one I like, too. From now on it will be called EA Sports FC.

Likely possible and extremely rare. Refer to the story of Ramana Maharshi. Truth is what you should be after, not feeling good. Bliss may be inherent to one's nature but grounding our search for truth on the pursuit of "pleasure" is not appropriate. Becoming conscious of the Truth must be the committed goal. Granted, Would any human pursue the truth if he were completely happy and free from suffering? What is happiness? In any case, it's likely we have no idea what bliss is. It may not be what we think it is.

Monument Valley as an excellent, fun mobile game series. Loopy and perspectival.

Start watching Futurama already.