Carl-Richard

Learning about Si taught me to become better at pretending to be a socially attuned drone by talking about things I've done rather than things I think about.

No, it was a poorly presented inside joke where I was caricaturing a way of communicating that I find rather not useful. I prefer to describe non-duality as the lack of separation rather than things being the same. It's not that the identity of a concept is the same as another concept (e.g. "apple = banana"). It's that there is fundamentally One identity beyond concepts, the Absolute.

Yes. Resonates a lot with my view of myself (except the gifted part 💩🙉💩😉; mandatory humble signalling).

This is not about SD (or intended to be), but it's possible to come to a place where nothing (in terms of human behavior) really surprises you or puzzles you. Just felt like sharing that.

I think routinely watching these kinds of videos is like routinely hitting yourself in the nuts or teasing a snake to bite you. At some point, it just becomes self-torture.

*queue spiritually sanctioned absolute insanity rebuttal: "everything is the same as everything else"*

You underestimate yourself 😉

Beige^ The "unnecessary" part seems quite Green. "It's unnecessary to think bro, just vibe bro". But it was said mostly jokingly. I generally find analyzing another forum member's SD stage revolting.

Green^

That's why you have to beat your dad 😆

Some years ago when I got a little into Chess (I only used to play a few games from time to time with my dad before), I beat a bot rated Candidate Master (~2200 elo) on my phone when I spent a lot of time thinking and focused really hard, albeit with one re-move at the very end (so it wasn't completely fair). The game probably lasted a few hours. At that point, it becomes more about patience and meticulousness than strategy. You literally calculate almost every possible move a few moves ahead. That's also how I beat my dad for the first time: by spending a lot of time calculating and being patient (the game was of course untimed 😄).

Judging by Sadhguru's statue depiction, Shiva was pretty buff

By the words he spoke in this video, he seems as spiritual as people here who talk about spirituality.

Or testing your biomarkers.

What exactly needs to be "filtered out"? What does "filtering out" mean? Glucose "crosses" the blood-brain barrier lol. Ashwagandha is just one thing. We're talking about 100s of supplements of presumably mostly essential nutrients. It's an essential nutrient (?) 🙈 Is my body getting exhausted from eating what it needs to function? 🙉

Supplements is food.

In the video, he literally describes the process of deconstructing the ego (or the identification with it) leading up death, to be hell. The more ego identification, the more resistance and suffering at death, the more hell. The truth is that hell is happening constantly as long as you're identified with the ego, but God allows you to not experience it all at once or in its fullest glory. He allows you to have your limited identified experience and be somewhat fine with that and live your life. He lets you pretend you're actually an ego, shielding you from the fact that you are separating yourself from God in its fullest nature (the Absolute).

This one again: Also, the part of the song that plays when you view the final Wrapped page is probably one of my favorite Meshuggah moments. They landed that one perfectly: https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/share/share-ab6671b8c51243278d5a2bb787942fda?si=oIQP_73iTZW5svfGvqw9Vg&destination=datastories&lang=nb

Try painting this: By Jan Esmann https://arthur.io/art/jan-esmann/untitled-5

What the f@#% have you done? 😂 Tbf, my posts sound so much more intelligent when spoken outloud by that woman than in my own head tbf fr fr. I should do that more often when I feel like felating myself.

It's both. Any activity you do with your mind has some generalizable effect that extends to other activities. The question is only how specific or how pronounced that effect is. To question the former is quite ridiculous and something we take for granted in other contexts where our minds are not poisoned by skepticism. Just take reading as an example: say you read a piece of text, 10 000 words long. From reading that text, do you only get better at reading that text, or do you get better at reading in general? Obviously you would answer the latter. But how can you be so sure? What justifies generalizing from the individual text to other texts? Is it that the structure of the activity is somehow similar across texts? Or is it simply that you learn the words and recognize them across texts? Obviously it's both. If your reading improves by reading more texts, you would certainly not say the similarity of structure across texts is just a coincidence. Sure, then take the structure of Chess, or the activity your mind performs when playing Chess (e.g. visualizing, planning, manipulating information in working memory). How does that not generalize to other things involving the same activities? Sure, you can be doing other things that could create similar effects. But then you can also look at factors like general workload, workload over time (intensity) and principles of growth like optimal work and rest windows to judge which activity probably creates the most growth (effect over time). Again, it's a different question how big that effect actually is, but what is certain is that not challenging your mind and not giving it adequate challenges will lead to stagnation and certainly not growth.

Things can change in the blink of an eye.

Not exactly police cam, but if you've seen the video before, it's really interesting with the added front and rear camera footage and interview commentary with the driver.

People experience parts of other people's lives in near-death experiences where they enter the tunnel and get a life review. Such questions will not arise if you are drowned by empathic connection to other people. Look closely into a person's eyes and you will experience them. Open your perception, become completely vulnerable to what you see, open your heart, become completely vulnerable to what you feel.

My god it's like nobody knows about Wilber.