Carl-Richard

Dictatee.

Yes. Yes.

What do you lay in the word "self-transcendence"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_Z

I've just skimmed through parts of it but I find the writing style awful and repetitive. Hanzi Freinacht "The Listening Society" is a step up from even Wilber.

@Rilles 👀 Hello

You can pursue a goal without strictly needing the goal. You can pursue it because it's desirable, not because you need it necessarily. But also, neediness seems like an extreme kind of expression of a need. You can have a milder expression that could not be classified as needy and still have a need associated with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needy https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/neediness If you lack the self-assurance and character to not display a behavior indicative of extreme privation, that you don't have a sense of balance and stability within yourself or are able to handle shifting outcomes without breaking down into a non-functional mess, that means you're being needy.

It's an attitude of non-attachment. You pursue it but you accept whatever that happens and are ok without it. Acceptance is a core feature in the psychological concept cognitive flexibility.

Meaning, autonomy and being. Then comes "physical health" (optimized diet, exercise, sleep, etc.). Then comes social health. If meaning, autonomy and being collapses, that's death. An organism that acts in accordance with its impetus, follows its drives, is in tune with its capabilities, lives. Nourishment comes secondary to that. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The process was I noticed a tension when focusing on the speaker/powerpoint in the lecture. Like I was trying to force my attention to project in this piecemeal and inelegant way. So when I noticed this tension, I let it dissolve. Even this subtle act of perception did have a physical manifestation, as a slight tightness in the visual apparatus. And when this dissolved, things notably became calmer, and then time stopped and the rest of the story unfolded. Some mentalist might say "you simply let go of your attachment to focus on the lecture", but even attachment has physical correlates, albeit subtle ones (what we call "behavioral" patterns), where tension in the body is one example.

This song is so feelgood, like butterflies in my entire body. It's so short:

They say that good music keeps you at the edge between familiarity and surprise. Too familiar becomes boring, and too surprising becomes hard to follow. Musical improvisation is the manifestation of this in real time, and you can usually notice when the player is engaging in well-established/familiar patterns ("licks") and when the player is creating something completely original. I'm used to improvising a lot on guitar, and I've noticed that I'm able to imagine impossibly intricate and original lines of improvisation in my head, but I'm in no way technically advanced enough to manifest that through my instrument. When I listen to the most complete virtuostic improvisational players out there, even though they can come very close many times, I always feel a tension between boredom and impenetrability. Of course, this desire I have of hearing the most hyper-creative lines of notes that I can possibly imagine is impossible to fulfill. It's completely relative to my unique conception of music, and I would probably never in a million years get to hear somebody produce even 10 seconds of those exact notes (which would be absolutely transcendentally orgasmic if it happened). Nevertheless, I know two players who come extremely close, and I'll try to weigh to which extent they're too "boring" ("musically conventional" is a better word) or too impenetrable (too melodically or harmonically complex) relative to my impossible standard of imaginative perfection. Guthrie Govan (obviously). It's tricky, because he is so versatile that he often fluctuates between too conventional (like bluesy bendy stuff) and too complex (like jazzy shredding stuff). I'll give an example for each player: Allan Holdsworth is notoriously known for being impossible to imitate by other players. For reference, Guthrie Govan can imitate virtually anyone but him. He often becomes too complex. I sometimes have to listen to his songs 30 times to understand what he is doing (like the run at 1:28 in the video below). (Btw things become more interesting around 0:40).

My first awakening (which happened very quickly during my 3rd meditation) probably only happened that quickly because it was preceded by a week of intense active mindfulness practice (up in the Norwegian mountains 😎, true mystic), which included not as much body scanning as overall awareness of movement (although the distinction kind of evaporates at some point). But the meditation where the awakening happened included body scanning (and then vipassana, which also has a body awareness aspect).

I'm saying it's both. Mind-body dualism is an outdated view. It's always intertwined. After my first awakening, I stopped having problems with suspension headaches and tight back/neck/shoulder muscles (extremely rare that I have those now). A lot of tension and aches and pain arise from unconscious and inelegant bodily movements. It's like you're moving your body in such a reckless way that you hurt yourself. And when you don't have the ability to relax and heal, you keep hurting yourself and it becomes a chronic pain problem (this is likely the cause of many "Subjective Health Complaints" (SHC), i.e. problems that have physical symptoms but not clear physiological causes. The causes are "physio-mechanical", behavioral).

At around 150-200 ms. (Figure represents event-related potentials in EEG recordings). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08651-9_12 Semantics is processed at around 400 ms.

Can you eat a grudge without utensils?

I'm just conforming to the format of the thread. For purely the act of getting nutrients into your body, utensils have zero to exceedingly minimal use. Better examples of tools are kitchen knives, butcher's knives, pots, spatulas. Show me one food you can only eat with utensils.

You literally bite and chew. Do you eat apple with a fork and knife? Have you not seen people eat steak with their hands?

Except with french fries, cookies, candy, chocolate, fruit, spear ribs, chicken wings, burgers, sandwiches, wraps, potato chips, pizza. Hygiene is conformity.

It is more a physical process than what people think. The way you breathe, your posture, your level of bodily relaxation, are all tightly intertwined with your level of awareness.

So this is purely a Western/modern issue?

Awareness through sleep is very "advanced" as they say. But then to frame it the other way, like with enlightenment, it actually happens all the time for all people, you just don't notice it because you're too identified (with perception and forms).

Eating sushi with chopsticks when you are Japanese is conformity. Eating with a knife and fork is the epitome of conformity.

Why does this read like being patronizing for no good reason? What is being communicated here?

Which spiritual teachers say this?