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Here’s a treat for you, my imaginary friends: Look at something. Whatever. Now close your eyes and recreate the same view with your imagination. Now realize that the former is as real as the latter. It’s the same indirect thing, that’s why it can overlap. You are not inside of your head which is inside of the world. The world with your head is inside of you.

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

Psychosis is when you lose the ability to distinguish between truth and belief.

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.

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

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.

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.

This one goes deep into the masculine heroic myth that is rampant in our culture and exposes the false promise that it brings. I will go as far as to say that it cuts directly into the teachings of Leo. Great stuff!

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?

Memes inbound: https://youtu.be/zdRJybJ047I

https://torrentfreak.com/vpns-russia-forces-google-to-delete-masses-of-links-amid-ukraine-invasion-220309/amp/ Why do you think Google cooperated with Russian government on this? Isn't it against its best interest to block these sites? I smell some kind of conspiracy here.

To be completely honest, this is an article about how Google helps Russia further isolate itself in terms of information available to Russian citizens. Google delisted search results for Russia regarding VPNs that would help Russians access Western information sources.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=onXqRstZJX8

@Preety_India Nope. Why ?

You are confusing moral excuses with understanding. Not only that, but you are actively working on discouraging people from investigating reasons for Putin's behavior by calling him a senseless psychopath, and thus suggesting that there are no reasons for what he is doing, or that those reasons are incomprehensible. If you do not want to understand because you are afraid that you may see his actions as justified, then don't. But realize this is your own fear of your own mind that you project on other people's quest for knowledge. Even if he were a psychopath, or had schizophrenia, it would be worthwhile to at least investigate the signs of it, or even reasons for it. And again: the fallacy you are committing is that you equate understanding with moral exemption. The fact that I understand the laws that govern the orbit of a moon-sized comet that will kill every living creature on Earth does not imply that I find it acceptable and that I will not try to deflect it. The fact that I understand why Putin wants something different from what I want, does not mean that I will now support him against my own best interest. This is relationships and negotiation 101.

Leo is notoriously biased against psychologists and psychotherapy. I never got a useful answer to this question that would stem from his direct experience with psychotherapy. I suspect that either he has never tried it, or got too scared of the results so he demonizes it now.