UnbornTao

Let's leave the discussion open without personal attacks.

Mbappé can play as a center striker like Benzema. Vinicius, Mbappé and Rodrygo. Veteran players can't play 60 games each season. Tchouameni and Valverde are there but the coach trusts Modric and Kroos more, even when they're tired and the team needs faster, stronger players. Camavinga could have played as a centerback, his natural position, not as a left back.

I try not to talk in terms of belief systems. I am not sure where you are coming from. I haven't looked into mind yet but I hold it as relative, otherwise it'd be better not to call it infinite. If it's infinite, it's neither mind nor thinking.

Plus a younger version of Ronaldo. Camavinga stopped him at the Bernabéu, though. But agree, what a player.

just a heads up to acknowledge this as entertainment.

Which is why a defensive 4-4-2 line-up would've been a better option, imo. City simply crushed Real. Real players were still napping in that match.

Not at the Bernabéu, though. Benzema was absent in both legs. I'd have started with a 4-2-2 formation: Alaba, Rugider, and Militao, Camavinga as centerback and Valverde in place of Rodrygo. Madrid needs players like Mbappé, Bellingham and Davies.

You can't think God.

Do the real work without considering these debates as more than fun discussions and hearsay.

The way you talk about this makes me think you still don't feel like you can own your emotions, and as a result might think of external factors as the cause, agent or source of emotion. Based on that perspective, emotions then seem to "come up" and you have no power in the matter. This is a disempowering viewpoint. Reactive, instinctual feelings are tricky. In your example of a plane crash, I imagine that it'd still be possible for someone who's mastered emotions to be calm or to feel less fear, without acting it out. A Zen master may be able to remain calm in some of those situations, for example. Again, practice generating enthusiasm now just because. Contrast that experience with your enthusiasm when it is seemingly catalyzed by circumstance. Notice it's the same experience. It can be generated without daydreaming or other forms of images. We might not have mastered this skill yet but it shows the creative aspect any individual has on her feelings and emotional state, and ultimately their experience. On another note, external event isn't fixed or even objective as you will relate whatever's perceived to your self, personality, story, needs, wants, etc. Make finer distinctions within the experience of emotion: interpretation, meaning, projection, self-referencing, etc. These are all things you do, even if unconsciously. They are activities done by you prior to the result called "emotion". See? We just don't grasp it yet. I'm pointing out that, instead of being victimized by circumstances, owning your experience (hence emotions and feelings) is an empowering shift one can make. To be clear I'm not in favor of ignoring emotions. What you have sounds like it works for you. I find it useful too.

It's useful for us to get clear on what goals any given practice has. A couple of useful distinctions to make: Meditation is setting out to manipulate your state in order to heal or control the mind. Contemplation, on the other hand, is going after insight and real experiential understanding of the subject being contemplated. It is questioning with the intent to discover what's true about its nature and workings. It's not limited to a technique or posture. The difficulty of this practice lies in its simplicity.

Are you saying that, since emotion has a purpose "outside" of yourself and seems to be precipitated by circumstance, that the "thing" responsible for its generation is then an external factor? That it has a purpose doesn't mean it is generated by circumstances. We do hold emotions that way, generally speaking. If something positive happens to you, you may feel happy. If nothing happens at all and yet you're still happy, others might as well wonder what drug you're on. We use circumstances as an excuse to producing emotions, labeling that as "real" emotion; without the pretext, we assume the emotion has to be fake. Since you are responsible for generating them, circumstances aren't needed in order to generate emotions. And yet they fulfill their purpose. For example: Why does one get angry? After looking into it, we might discover that anger is based on hurt and that it is a manipulation on our part to cover up the hurt. Hurt is also an activity you're doing. We're just ignorant of how that is so, and our job should be to grasp what we're doing.

The guy might have some traumas related to trusting others.

Experience emotion as an activity you're doing. Pay attention to components of that activity as you're feeling any emotion: perception, interpretation, meaning, extrapolation. These you do, they don't just fall on your ass. I may move my body in order to reach my coffee mug. The action is motivated by me wanting to reach the mug, so it is directed towards that. Emotions have a purpose, you're the one who starts and leads the motion. When you say "they're directed at something" what I hear is "'I'm at the effect of emotions rather than being their source".

We might not know what life is, so basing questions on presumptions is not a good way to go about it. Self-survival is inherently a struggle. Pain and fear are extremely accesible experiences -- as are freedom and happiness, but also less common for people to access. Self-survival demands managing what's considered negative, positive quickly fades, taken for granted and so may go unnoticed. And of course the bitch of it all is that we can't win the game of life. Ultimately self is going to die. But joy is possible too. Simplistic answers don't provide much except a new idea or opinion. Better to look at what all of this is for oneself.

@Osaid thank you, gonna add some to my next cup.

Yes, enlightenment is possible for everyone. If we postulate that the only requisite is to be human, given that other humans have done it, you can, too. Whoever says you can't is full of crap.

Adopting a loving an open disposition towards others is actually one of the hardest things to do in life, contrary to what most people may think.

Really? Can you provide a source? Why is salt added to coffee?

What you describe is an assertion and not a source, however. What is the nature of that "I" you're speaking about? Dwell on that.

Who's the one experiencing the emotion? Why do two individuals react differently to the same circumstance? Can't you not get angry at someone stepping on your toe? How come? What is the emotion for? Who are you doing it for? It might seem like one is the victim of external factors when it comes to emotions even though that's a paradigm or worldview, and a false one. You can create emotions when conscious of what they are. Being at the source of them, you are empowered to be responsible for your experience rather than blaming circumstances. What you're describing is a reactive emotion which is more difficult to tackle since they're instinctive, appearing as "automatic". Don't confuse the fact that emotions happen at light speed with being at the effect of them. Consider actors creating their emotions at will to suit their role and given situation. Another example: we generally wait for the "right" circumstances before we feel justified in generating enthusiasm. Can you create enthusiasm at will? Do "enthusiasm" right now. Intellectually, this is cute and simple but the reality of it is harder to grasp. Haven't done that yet. P.S. I didn't communicate clearly at all in my previous post. What I said was that, as a culture, we assume emotions are caused by external factors, when in fact they might not be.

@Leo Gura Plato would be proud lol

Apart from scientific evidence and nutritional value, what you eat is ultimately a matter of opinion (preference). There's no ideal diet and consciousness is a different matter. You might be conflating enlightenment with a fantasy; enlightened or not, you can eat animals. Whether or not to eat animal products is a matter of personal choice, regardless of the purported benefits -- and likely a few drawbacks -- it has on your physiology, the ecology, etc.

Not sure what you're talking about but it isn't a perspective. Sounds like a radically different and healing state.

Authenticity, being natural