Carl-Richard

Thought he was Norwegian for a second there.

@UnbornTao

@Cred Consider that "not" masking is like talking to a child like they're an adult, or like they are you. Masking is making room for the external, to take in, to mirror. Simply being "yourself" as if you're talking to yourself in your own head, that's just being blind to what is happening around you. And you can make it a part of yourself to be receptive to those things (or at least be responsive to them, granted perceptual varieties). And that way, you experience it as being yourself, or at least as acting in line with your values (which in self-determination theory, this process of integrating external motivation deeply into the self is called "integrated motivation", which can be just as motivating as pure internal motivation or simply following your interests).

As for calling it survival (or Maya) rather than truth, does anybody remember infinite backflipping cartoon mouse awakening? Why is nobody asking about it anymore? Is it suddenly out of fashion? Or could it be that deep, all-pervading, non-personal, perennial truths are more pressing than some clearly personal hallucinations had in a psychedelic state?

Nothing normative was claimed in my statements. You're free to do whatever. Just know suffering means identification with that which is cyclical ("sequential"?). If you're not identified, you're not suffering (but of course, be careful turning this into denial and self-deception; you very likely are identified). That's why letting go is essentially the direct path to enlightenment. But do you want to let go? That is the question.

You neurodiverged him 🙂👏🌚

Ironically, the "truth-seeking" expounded here is survival, dressed up as truth-seeking. Give me the "next" insight, the "next" awakening, the "next" deeper understanding.

Even contemplating for yourself is like buying a sandbox from Walmart and digging in it. You're probably not going to hit the motherload. Your words, your concepts, your semantic web, is just bland Walmart sand. Everybody basically has it, only varying quantities of it. And your starting assumption should be that any sandcastle you build, has by any reasonable certainty already been built, perhaps using slightly different sand (what is Walmart in India?).

In what way? What makes it detrimental to longevity? Taxing the brain now? Why is it detrimental to longevity? How do you know this?

What are "bullshit jobs"?

Working out taxes the body as well. You're not supposed to workout 24/7.

Depends on how much of a beating you need.

First you have to beat it into a pulp. First you have to scream into the abyss as you get teared apart and sucked into it. Then it's a win win. [Abyss emoji]

Half-assing spirituality makes the self feel good. Whole-assing it kills it, permanently.

The end of suffering is truth. Anything else is survival. Survival is suffering. @Leo Gura I feel you have always misunderstood suffering, as if it's this "ouchie ouchie" thing an organism exclamates, this strong and persistent sensation of pain or misery. No. It's merely dissatisfaction, of trying to squeeze partialness, division, out of life. Which is always fleeting, so the pressure reignites, going in cycles, which is disconcerting when the cycles are short or hard. Alleviating the pressure, brings you into union, true non-duality.

Maybe he realized it wasn't true? Maybe? It's when you shut up. But then people want you to talk, so you put it into words. And that's when the entire hell of deception starts. You should sometimes appreciate those who take the piss out of talking. I remember such a being once.

Or protects against people who do harm by perhaps being an asshole.

The self independent of shame and other externally oriented states (shame, guilt, embarrassment happens in the DMN).

Roughly speaking, the state meditation puts you in is the state where all work is done (the opponent to the Default Mode Network, or DMN, is by some called the "Tasking Network", TN; meditation decreases DMN and increases TN).

Odablock (streamer), #1 PvPer overall on Oldschool RuneScape, most ADHD person (watch him trying to get somebody to teach him the Cow boss) but also the most refinement-oriented, practice-oriented person. He says he used to record himself and watch back what he did in a fight and correct the mistakes. Skill, mastery, is simply about doing the thing a lot, and doing it right. I feel like you treat DSM-5 categories like they're some kind of metaphysical thing, but I treat them as identical to descriptions like "lack of commitment". So when I hear "it requires commitment, which people with ADHD struggle with", I'm like "yeah duh". No need to pole it out.

People will care about you even if you're not whatever kind of impossible definition of special you have in mind. And nobody is truly special. So you don't have to worry about that. Now what do you want to do? You will leave your own little mark on whatever you do. In that sense, you are always special.

Chant "I love you" internally and imagine immense bliss and love enveloping you once the thought arises. What you were lacking during that experience was love, reassurance, safety, and you will give that to yourself. Or imagine like the most loving trip sitter (whatever gender you prefer) telling you "everything is going to be fine, I'm here" and holding you. This is essentially standard loving-kindness meditation and CBT.

Way too crude and dichotomous. You can just say mastery and understanding are different and may have trade-offs.

Eat more fiber or protein (voluminous and satisfying foods) and plan the exact amounts of food you will eat each meal.

I like how one of the robots almost fell, and then on the next move, it fell. Was it programmed into it (to demonstrate how it could get up and do it with style) or was it a design flaw or something else (e.g. part of the overall show to make it seem more human; some are more clumsy than others)?