Carl-Richard

You're telling a rat to not disrespect the mouse? I'm the filthiest, ugliest, horniest @Eskilon, Buddhist rat that exists. But yeah, my point was serious, feel free to be serious or not be, I'm open and accepting for whatever, I just call it what I like to call it.

The point isn't whether the chemical has a "purely physical" effect like you're implying (which is an outdated idea by the way). It's whether it can reliably lead to improvements in longevity. If you for example have a spiritual awakening, single events like that have been shown to lead to lasting changes in the brain and thus behavior and thus stress levels and thus health and thus longevity. To think that something must be in some weird way "purely physical" to matter (which nothing truly is when it comes to humans), is an outdated paradigm even in mainstream science.

*Guy says he is going to do an experiment, perhaps 2-3 trips like with mushrooms, to see what happens to his biomarkers* -> "chronic". "Epistemic responsibility".

Brotha, you're mixing Scandinavia with Norway, and often it's called Fenno-Scandinavia when you include Finland (it's usually just Norway, Sweden, Denmark).

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.