Playing with Perspectives

[NoSelfSelf]

Thanks for being the sanest mod on here dont let their pussyfied personas impact you thanks 🙏

[UnbornTao]

4 hours ago, NoSelfSelf said:

Thanks for being the sanest mod on here dont let their pussyfied personas impact you thanks 🙏

OK thanks.

[UnbornTao]

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“Put simply, people consistently act inconsistently, unaware of the contradiction between their espoused theory and their theory-in-use, between the way they think they are acting and the way they really act.” 

— Chris Argyris

Read this: https://hbr.org/1991/05/teaching-smart-people-how-to-learn

Edited January 28 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Start creating something now:

an observation, a questioning, a plan, a sketch, a poem, a song, a dish, a workout, a meditation, a book, a hobby, a curiosity for something, a mood, a goal.

• What is creating?

Edited March 1 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

"Week’s over. See you next Monday." - Human brain

Edited February 8 by UnbornTao

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[UnbornTao]

You perceive. What is that about? Look at a small, rather plain, object. Set aside anything that isn’t a mere sense perception of it, and ask yourself: What is the act of perceiving? What within the experience of that is not about perceiving it?

Notice, for instance, that any text is immediately interpreted and made sense of as language. This is already not the mere act of perception, but something additional.

Edited March 13 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

You need to experience something new! That is to say, merely going through the motions in your mind isn't the point of either growth or consciousness. You have to encounter, see, notice, become aware of, something new within your experience -- to experience something differently, in the direction of clarity, freedom, and truth.

Edited March 13 by UnbornTao

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[UnbornTao]

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"Please listen. If you listen rightly, the truth of all this will be seen, and then truth will be the only action. Whatever thought does with regard to inner solitude is an escape, an avoidance of what is. In avoiding what is, thought creates its own conditioning which prevents the experiencing of the new, the unknown.

Fear is the only response of thought to the unknown; thought may call it by different terms, but still it is fear. Just see that thought cannot operate upon the unknown, upon what is behind the term 'inner solitude'. Only then does what is unfold itself, and it is inexhaustible.

Now, if one may suggest, leave it alone; you have heard, and let that work as it will. To be still after tilling and sowing is to give birth to creation."

- J. Krishnamurti

Edited March 14 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

On 1/23/2024 at 2:49 PM, UnbornTao said:

A lot of intellectual content is likely conflated with genuine comprehension, especially when it comes to the nature of things themselves -- self, mind, emotions, existence, relationship, communication, perception -- whatever.

When you set aside the crap (everything that isn’t direct apprehension), what do you actually know -- within your experience or beyond it? What are you deeply conscious of -- truly and directly?

So, it is useful to be honest about that. 

 

[UnbornTao]

 

 

[UnbornTao]

Continually revisit what you take for granted in every aspect of existence and every domain of life.

Doing so requires a willingness to look beyond the arrogant relationship that seems to be automatically adopted toward anything experienced -- where "it" is quickly deemed "known" (interpreted, made sense of, categorized). Yet deep down, there lingers a sense that this relationship may be artificial, even false.

What is it that we have come to know? Is it a personal encounter with "the thing" -- an insight? Is it a dispassionate, unbiased observation?

What do you take as obvious about yourself, life, and existence? What do you assume health, creativity, communication, emotion, and culture to be? Who are you, really?

Edited Tuesday at 12:40 AM by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Write from scratch, with nothing to stand on except your own experience. Face the blank sheet. No external input of any kind, no overly extraneous concepts. Confront the matter at hand; investigate it, then communicate your experience of it as it is -- without distortion, preference, withdrawal, or bias.

You can approach this exercise in many ways, but one I favor involves contemplating what true creativity means: creating something new for yourself and in your own case, like a thought. Also, I recommend picking a concrete topic, subject or theme beforehand so that your mind can actually focus on something. It could be anything, but here I mostly mean a deeper look into how an experience of X or Y is held, like the way you experience an emotion.

Edited Wednesday at 10:46 PM by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

It's not that the truth invalidates you; it's that it only serves itself, and the offense is of our own making, based on how we relate to it. This presupposes that we are taking ourselves seriously and giving what's true a backseat.

Edited Wednesday at 03:49 PM by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

How come the act of communicating, specially that of an insight or a profound experience, albeit simple, is rare to come by? How come listening doesn't take place? What needs to occur for this kind of deep "listening" to take place?

[UnbornTao]

 

[UnbornTao]

How is your fixation on the result making you blind to the process that precedes it -- such that the result turns out that way?

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Edited 19 hours ago by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt.

 

Edited 35 minutes ago by UnbornTao