Playing With Perspectives

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Thinking is generating a new thought you've never had before.

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Seeking pleasure undermines the search for truth.

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The extent to which you're able and willing to acknowledge what's true is the degree of your "spiritual" growth.

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To become aware of conditioning, change your environment.

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Answers and beliefs undermine questioning.

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If you have to do it, no matter what, do it well.

Otherwise, don't do it.

When you're committed, others take notice. When that happens, new possibilities open up.

Edited July 21, 2022 by UnbornTao

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An immediate way to increment your wealth is adopting an austere mindset relative to your survival.

Reduce your needs, simplify your lifestyle, withdraw from the world.

Aim to be happy with as little as possible. Then, no matter what you gain or lose, you'll be able to be happy regardless of circumstantial change.

Edited July 23, 2022 by UnbornTao

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Two fundamental assumptions that science holds and defends that might not be true:

1. The existence of an objective world;
2. Direct knowledge into the nature of life and reality is impossible.

Edited July 21, 2022 by UnbornTao

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Be skeptic about your own skepticism.

Pay attention to bias that's covered up under the term skepticism.

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Openness keeps you on a third-person perspective, detached from what's being observed, facilitating an objectivity that is uncommon in our culture.

However, unlike being an spectator, in this case the condition can also be manipulated because you are living it, not just observing at a distance.

Edited July 22, 2022 by UnbornTao

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A trap especially directed to teachers:

Don't confuse having talked about a subject with actually understanding it deeply.

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Is it really true?

Have you become directly conscious of it, or do you simply hold it as such (believe it to be the case)?

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This work isn't about sugar-coating your own ego -- so avoid falling into self-importance.

What's important is the work itself, not your personal self.

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In your experience, practice the following:

Differentiate between perception, thought, and feeling. 

Do it.

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Psychedelics promote radical openness and deconstruction of self, mind and existence, if done deliberately and with intelligence.

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Stop giving so much attention to what the world is up to, with its ego, drama and delusion.

The prevalent modern lifestyle promotes stress and distraction.

Change yours. Slow down. Focus on one or two commitments in your life.

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What systems and infrastructure do you use, either consciously or not?

People tend to get stuck in ways of acting and perceiving.

Set up systems and create your infrastructure from scratch. Build up your environment to be empowering.

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"If you don't change course, you may end up where you're headed."

What path are you on? What do you spend your time, focus and energy on?

Be vigilant of your first step. Where will it lead you down the road? Make sure it is an empowering destination.

Change course before it's too late.

If not, this is how individuals fall into toxic life purposes: negligence, complacency and lack of awareness.

Edited July 22, 2022 by UnbornTao

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Honesty doesn't need disclaimers.

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Concepts about others prevent you from meeting the living event in front of you.

It decreases your presence and disempowers genuine relating.

Edited July 22, 2022 by UnbornTao