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What you call „mind” is just the unintended consequences of what you are doing. That includes all use of imagination (voice, image) as well as grasping things and making them real (that, of course, includes yourself). Feelings can only exist because you believe what you think, and you project that onto time, or onto the world. Pro tip: all imagination about the future is extrapolation from knowledge, which is essentially, past. You can never know what will, or even can, happen. You can only be present.

I’m guessing that plumbers know shit pretty well

The whole bird/mastery thread is silly because it tried to discuss understanding without the possibility to create knowledge (as in case of animals). Understanding is only in relation to something you know/representation.

By watching a video, a representation of the action, you understand the video because you created concepts, representations, of what had been done. Thus you may say that you know how to change the battery. Understanding is demonstrated by changing the battery, by aligning reality with the concepts you have, so that what you have in front of you corresponds with the knowledge you have. As for the existence of understanding apart from demonstration, it is just conviction, nothing else.

Which birds are the masters of flight?

Lol I’m a master poster because I just did it. Hahahaha

Shit I gotta lose some weight! Hahahaha The happy music is killing me! Hahahaha

Hahahaha

Yes @Leo Gura, I know you know God and understand consciousness.

The ability to represent something is called knowing, but understanding is the ability to do it.

It’s funny how if being could ever be something other than it is, it would be nonbeing.

I felt an urge to check in after a long absence and seeing you here, still chipping away at it, makes me feel all warm. Hi my dear friend!

Knowing your true nature with absolute, unwavering, clarity.

There are various translations of the I-Ching, I am specifically referring to: I Ching, The Oracle of the Cosmic Way Paperback – November 25, 2002 by Carol K. Anthony, Hanna Moog

@Etherial Cat As far as I know, I-Ching, the Oracle of the Cosmic Way is the only book that openly and explicitly criticizes the heroic myth and shows how it is connected to the way in which culture forms. The heroic myth is deeply connected to the cultural supremacy of the thinking mind, demonization of feelings, senses, body, interchanging of true purpose for disconnection, and the whole host of unpleasant phenomena that are culturally deemed as unfixable, the "human condition", and that are linked to the idea of the fall and the original sin. I find it to be a travesty that our culture does not provide any, I mean ANY, ZERO, alternatives to the heroic myth. The so-called heroine myths, are simply re-framings of the heroic myth where the heroine still ventures into the hidden, parallel reality for the initiated, and gains cultural recognition in exchange for personal sacrifice. Complete and utter madness. To some extent, the heroic myth is synonymous to being human, with the implication that it is human to inhabit the parallel reality of our thinking mind. This is collective ego 101, the prime example how it operates and how it cultivates our lives to perpetuate its disconnected existence, by feeding on our energy. Do you know of any other book that shows the other way, away from the heroic myth that is not a re-framing of it using different content?