Frankie10

I think it’s more about the quality of your sleep cycles than solely about how long you sleep. If you wake up in the middle of a cycle, you will very likely feel tired af, even if you slept 9 hours. So I can recommend the App ‘Sleep Cycle’ which wakes you up in between these phases or in phases where you are in very light sleep and also shows you the quality of your sleep

‘It was the sort of idea that might easily recondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes- make them lose faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.’ Alduous Huxley in ‘Brave New World’

After watching this video, I'm confused and a bit frustrated (which is not a bad sign ;)). If we should investigate something in order to get to its truest nature, when do we actually KNOW we have found the latter? And if we should not use beliefs, books, speculations, intuitions, models, theories, experiments etc. to find it, what tool is left? Also, isn't it impossible to get to the raw truth of something by thinking? Isn't it a neverending loop? If there is no absolute truth in a dual world, is enlightenment the only way out? Thus, Is understanding/experiencing the true nature of reality maybe enough to subsequently understand smaller parts of it without effort, for example the question 'what is art?'. If this is the case, why bothering with contemplation, why spending hundreds or thousands of hours investigating a single question when we could solely try to get to the highest truth (enlightenment), where a lot of 'smaller' truths will naturally flow to us? Isn't what Leo is explaining, and I am asking here, merely more concepts, ideas, philosophizing, thus part of the endless loop? Since these are just spontaneous thoughts, and I haven't actually tried contemplation yet, I may find answers to some of the questions here. However I would love if someone would tell me his/her opinion! Have a good day guys