Playing With Perspectives

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The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding

Miyamoto Musashi

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Miyamoto Musashi:

"Do nothing which is of no use"

Which is to say, stay on purpose.

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Edited November 1 by UnbornTao

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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

― Avatamsaka Sutra

What is our experience of things? Is that the same as what things themselves are?

Edited November 17 by UnbornTao

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You might say "everything is constructed or an invention".

Two possible dispositions to approaching that:

- "Fuck it, nothing matters" (and so create bad things as a result), or;

- "Okay then, let's make sure the things I construct are good things"

But then again, do we actually know if that is true?

Edited November 17 by UnbornTao

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Think about this every Saturday.  

Edited November 16 by UnbornTao

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Learn to make new, subtle distinctions within the sense of smell and your experience of aromas.

Use these to learn about learning, and to understand and apply principles such as correction and feedback into your life:

1. fragrance-analysis - Unknown.docx
2. fragrance-terminology - Unknown.docx

I know the documents could be a bit more detailed, but that's enough to get us started.

Edited November 16 by UnbornTao

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What does it take for you to create your own feedback?

One thing that comes to mind is paying closer attention to what you are aware of, thinking, and doing throughout any given process, activity, event. 

Increase your conscious sensitivity--openly aware to what's in front of you. And keep going in that direction of increasing awareness.

Edited November 17 by UnbornTao

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A nihilistic perspective may be adopted to justify one’s lack of action. There is a deep-seated bias in your desires and preferences motivating you to think this way. You question and doubt why to do something instead of why not to do it, hoping to find a reason, a motive, or an inherent meaning that moves you to action, as if they were hidden under rocks. This desire stems from feeling as if one's self and life are lacking. Otherwise, you remain lazy and complacent, gratifying your immediate impulses, avoiding any kind of confrontation and hard work. Nihilism keeps you comfortable in your unconsciousness, in your passivity, and in your defeatist attitude.

In its nature, this disposition is more ego, more unconscious behavior. Ask yourself why you decide to adopt it, if you do. Another important factor is not realizing that you have deliberately decided to adopt such a mentality at some point. Acting nihilistically is your activity, which you can stop doing. This involves becoming experientially aware of the root of the action itself. Another option is simply to recognize that this is something you want to experience since you are doing it, and therefore you might as well enjoy it. Enjoy it, you want to experience it.

What is not recognized within this disposition is that taking non-meaning as negative is still significant! You are giving that fact a negative meaning. To hear the proposition that life is devoid of meaning requires hearing it as such; if it is devoid of meaning, it cannot be negative! It could be said that reality transcends meaning. Life, your life, is a blank slate waiting for you to build the meaning you want. I recommend that this be constructive and empowering for you. It could be, as powerful examples, discovering the truth, understanding everything, transcending your self, mastering life, mastering a couple of skills. Clearly, creating something—anything—requires being responsible for realizing it; being the source of the meaning of your life, that is, nothing and no one is going to do it for you, but it entirely depends on you.

For the same reason children play, the main reason behind your actions could simply be to enjoy the act and the process of playing the game itself; doing something, anything, with full attention and presence, with enjoyment, sensitivity, and excellence, until your mother calls you for dinner.

Like any game, when all is said and done, it is free from a final purpose that will bring you an idealized sense of completion. Life itself is like a game, whose purpose lies in playing with all your being and mastering the game, in understanding all its components and playing to win, to finally put the game pieces back in the box.

Otherwise, enjoy your non-meaning, as it is meaningful to you.

 

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wordy, convoluted. will edit it at some point.

Edited November 20 by UnbornTao

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On 9/10/2024 at 2:34 PM, UnbornTao said:

One thing is what you "say" (think, believe, intellectualize, speak about), and another is what you actually experience and live as. Notice the discrepancies between these two.

"What we have opened up so far in this experiment is an opportunity to get clear that most of us are not clear where our experience of the world, of others, and of ourselves in the world is actually happening. 

In other words, we often encounter life through some theory or belief, rather than encountering life as we actually live it. As a result, we attempt to comprehend or understand life as it is encountered through these theories or beliefs, rather than comprehending life as it is actually lived. And as a consequence, we interact with life (the world, others, and ourselves) from these theories or beliefs, rather than interacting with life as it is actually lived. 

A master encounters life as it is lived, and as a consequence deals with life as it is lived, rather than dealing with life through the filter of some theory or belief.

It is not that a master has not theories or beliefs, rather a master holds his or her theories, beliefs, knowledge, and experience so to speak above himself or herself so that it doesn't act as a filter, but illuminates what is encountered."

--Werner Erhard

Edited November 20 by UnbornTao

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What is a tree?

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On 10/14/2024 at 5:07 PM, UnbornTao said:

Tiramisú recipe