Playing With Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

What do you experience as suffering when it is embraced, turned into, and felt completely, without resistance?

What is the experience of pain like without concept?

Could pain be a concept, an activity that you do? Is pain an assumption?

Edited October 13, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Buddhist rat, AI edition:

Edited November 3, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Finding yourself exercise

Find you.

Notice that everything comes to you. Everything is perceived by you. Are you a perception? Are you perceived? Who perceives and is perceiving? 

Keep it experiential.

Where are you? Who and what are you?

Edited November 6, 2023 by UnbornTao

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Why is an adversarial disposition towards others adopted?

[UnbornTao]

What is Maturity? is so good. Listening to it again. Several points hit home. The ability to compromise, refusing to engage in emotional manipulation tactics, sacrificing oneself for a greater purpose. Ironically (or not), I seem to be less mature in certain aspects now than when I was a child. 

Edited November 15, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Powerful quote that resonates with me:

Quote

"Pleasure does not provide purpose. Human beings want to collect and pursue
their thousands of pleasures, excitements and mental stimulations, all in
the unseen false assumption that if you collect enough pleasures, they will
somehow harden into purpose. That is, they believe that a hardened mass of
excitements, of things to look forward to, will somehow magically turn into
a reassuring purpose that the individual is heading in the right direction
toward good results. It can never happen.

The pleasures of this world are the pleasures of this world. You can build
a purpose, to be sure, in spending all your time making money and making
plans for your social advancement; but if you call them purpose, call them
a true destination, you will have deceived yourself without realizing it,
because you yourself, the individual himself has placed the word purposeful
life, meaningful life, worthwhile life on his accumulation of pleasures,
and he has lied to himself and he will suffer terribly.

The pleasures that are so freely offered and accepted from the financial
world and the social world and the romantic world, all those pleasures are
lures, temptations sent out to snare the weak and the foolish and the
gullible and the dishonest.

It is now time for you, as a spiritual student, to realize the mistake you
have made in thinking that you can create any kind of a good for yourself,
anything that's satisfying, including a sense of fulfillment, of
destination.

I've asked you to do something that is marvelously daring, that has the
first seed of true purpose in it. I've asked you to be more than
suspicious. I've asked you to ask the question, 'Can anything good come out
of my mind the way it operates now, the level, the low-level that my whole
psychic system operates on? Can anything good come out of that?' No!"

from a talk given 5/7/1989
Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 27, talk 679, track 25

Edited October 17, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Create a new thought you've never had before, out of nothing.

That's thinking.

Edited November 4, 2023 by UnbornTao

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Edited November 6, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Manipulation takes place for you as part of self-survival; it is producing an effect on an assessed condition.

Affecting equals manipulation.

Edited November 6, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Reality is continuously giving you feedback on the consequences and appropriateness of your actions. Pay close attention and correct when necessary.

Contrary to what's commonly thought, being corrected doesn't make you wrong but the other way around! Notice that correction pushes you back to the road of right action. The mistake people make is insisting on their way of doing things when presented with feedback that "their way" isn't producing the intended results. You have to become increasingly aware of your thinking, feeling and acting. What is ineffective? What works? What could be done more powerfully? Which principles govern this or that subject matter?

Edited November 7, 2023 by UnbornTao

[Sincerity]

5 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Reality is continuously giving you feedback on the consequences of your actions. Pay close attention and correct when necessary.

Contrary to what's commonly thought, being corrected doesn't make you wrong but the other way around! Notice that correction pushes you back to the road of appropriate action. The mistake people make is insisting on their way of doing things when presented with feedback that "their way" isn't producing the intended results. You have to become increasingly aware of your thinking, feeling and acting. What is ineffective? What works? What could be done more powerfully? Which principles govern this or that subject matter?

Love that. 

You maintain a great journal.

[UnbornTao]

20 hours ago, Sincerity said:

Love that. 

You maintain a great journal.

thank you.

[UnbornTao]

The truth doesn't mean anything. It just is.

Edited November 8, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Create possibilities from nothing.

[UnbornTao]

Believing in what's considered to be true is but a belief, not an experience of the reality of something.

Edited November 13, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

In order to live your own life, what's significant must be created by you, otherwise you'll be living an inherited life.

[UnbornTao]

Life is meaningless, and it is meaningless, that it is meaningless.

Edited November 11, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Play a game worth playing that is bigger than you and that causes you to be authentic.

[UnbornTao]

Acting out of the mistaken belief that one must have a leadership position (or a position of authority or decision rights) in order to be a leader, dramatically reduces one’s ability to be a leader in any situation, no matter what the circumstances are - Werner Erhard.