I Have Too Many Insights - Advice Needed

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, Bobby_2021 said:

@Carl-Richard "how so" what?

Why should insights be lost?

[UnbornTao]

You will forget and regain insights.

The important part is the experience, the consciousness, not so much that it is written down. Get it and lose it. And get it again.

[Sincerity]

I still haven't watched Leo's video on insight because I didn't have the time. Or rather I was more preoccupied with my own insights.

5 hours ago, Loving Radiance said:

When I tripped in the past, I used to have thousands of insights but didn't write them down. Then, when I read my trip questions immediately afterward, it became evident that it all comes from the same place.

Find that place, and notice how you can create any insight & answer for life when being centered in and meditating on that place.

Interesting!

5 hours ago, Bobby_2021 said:

Dont be too eager to record all your insights. To be fair, most of them are trash, if you are really honest.

Most of my insights I had from 5 years ago seems childish compared to what I have now.

Insights are meant to be generated and lost. I use google keep, to store my insights. I periodically review them and put them to the trash once I have integrated them, in my free time. Being too eager to record them will also hamper your ability to generate them in future.

Instead integrate and savour the insight while you have them. It serves as a foundation for better and grander ones in the future. 

Also, do you mind sharing them in future? 

If I had to record ALL of them I would literally be writing all the time. It's too much.

This thread is kind of old and I don't even remember the state of mind I wrote it in. My problem has resolved itself I think but Y'all can still share your thoughts/advice if You want.

For me insights are meant to be contemplated even further to go as deep as possible with interconnectedness and understanding. Then at the end when I'm tired with all the contemplation I can look at the entire perspective with a smile and finally rest.

Nowadays I spontaneously record interesting thoughts/insights in a notes app on my phone and periodically make reports to process them to a greater extent. I very much enjoy this entire process and it helps with clarity immensely.

I don't mind sharing them - I often do through the posts I make.

2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

You will forget and regain insights.

The important part is the experience, the consciousness, not so much that it is written down. Get it and lose it. And get it again.

I guess so.

Although writing them down helps a lot. To kinda get them out of my system.

[Danioover9000]

@Sincerity

On 1/16/2023 at 9:29 PM, Sincerity said:

Lately I've upped my contemplation game (reached amazing results!) and a new challenge has arisen for me. I have sooo many great and useful insights which I'm really fond of, but it becomes way too much to interconnect everything or even remember a lot them. I realized that I simply can't hold very much in my mind at once.

Moreover, my commonplace book in OneNote and vault of insights in Obsidian are becoming too much for me as well - I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of insights, deep questions, concepts, etc.. Thus, I forget about most of these notes, many of them incredibly valuable and insightful, which is a shame to me.

The gist is that I want to be a great intellectual in my life, I want to have a very broad perspective on life, I want to understand reality deeply, all that stuff. I feel discontented with the fact that I forget about so many nuggets of wisdom which could certainly be of use in my journey.

So I ask You for your advice. Is it a matter of better organization and workflow with my commonplace book? Do You think one can develop their ability to hold more things in their mind at once? Or maybe I should let it go and stop trying to save most of my insights?

Ultimately I will solve this myself somehow but hey, some input from outside is always welcome. Please grant me your wisdom!

   Generally for me, if I had too many insights, or too many of a good thing, I reduce or sometimes stop engaging with those activities for the time being, until it becomes less and I can manage.

   Interestingly, I have the exact opposite of your issue: I have been lately getting fewer insights, sometimes none. Any advice to uptake the insights on a daily basis? 

[Sincerity]

3 minutes ago, Danioover9000 said:

Interestingly, I have the exact opposite of your issue: I have been lately getting fewer insights, sometimes none. Any advice to uptake the insights on a daily basis? 

That's how it is sometimes, I feel. It depends on state.

You can always get more insights by asking more questions. And by contemplating more in general.

Edited March 1, 2023 by Sincerity

[Bobby_2021]

4 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Why should insights be lost?

It's counter intuitive. If you look forward to save every insights that happens then you are scaring the muse away. You can't even generate a lot of insights. 

When you are detached, they start revealing themselves more.

That's the nature of insights.  

[Carl-Richard]

6 minutes ago, Bobby_2021 said:

It's counter intuitive. If you look forward to save every insights that happens then you are scaring the muse away. You can't even generate a lot of insights. 

When you are detached, they start revealing themselves more.

That's the nature of insights.  

Who is talking about looking forward? lol "plz gimme insight"

[Bobby_2021]

@Carl-Richard Listen mate, you don't have to ask questions if you are not serious about wanting the answer. 

10 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Who is talking about looking forward? lol "plz gimme insight"

[Carl-Richard]

6 hours ago, Bobby_2021 said:

@Carl-Richard Listen mate, you don't have to ask questions if you are not serious about wanting the answer. 

You don't have to try to read my mind if you're bad at it.

[Danioover9000]

@Sincerity

On 3/1/2023 at 5:29 PM, Sincerity said:

That's how it is sometimes, I feel. It depends on state.

You can always get more insights by asking more questions. And by contemplating more in general.

   Okay, asking more questions and contemplate more in general, like Leo's '64 questions', and contemplation videos.

   If you don't mind, could you list some more specific technics you use to generate more insights? For me, I'm starting like an ideas generating journal for businesses.

[Sincerity]

2 hours ago, Danioover9000 said:

If you don't mind, could you list some more specific technics you use to generate more insights? For me, I'm starting like an ideas generating journal for businesses.

I don't have techniques I intentionally employ. I just think. I'm curious about stuff. I dig often into what reality is.

Most often I start longer contemplation session by journaling about my life and then I switch to pondering more deeply some concepts or aspects of myself that have come to attention. It's done naturally.

I try to connect concepts together. For example yesterday I was investigating what relaxation is (I wanted to know how I can relax well) and came to the conclusion that all of these have something in common: Relaxation, surrender, letting go, flow, self-loss, fun, intuition, mastery, familiarity, similarity, repeatability, clarity, autopilot, enjoyment, control, release of tension, effortlessness, orgasm, awakening, acceptance, etc.

I was sitting bored in a college class today and went further on a piece of paper (for like half an hour) to interconnect more. 

I find that many insights arise simply by interconnecting things.

I would add that writing helps immensely with getting a stream of insights going. Either on paper on digitally. Lately I use the iphone notes app a lot.

And finally I'd say that the greatest insights arise spontaneously from a place of surrender and concentration on experience.

Edited March 3, 2023 by Sincerity