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I enjoyed reading this. Too bad he's half a world away from where I live

Not an enlightenment joke

Ties well with the theme of the "smart dumb people", but explains it more maturely.

Conscious ness is one and distinctions exist within it. There is no "your" consciousness. Consciousness is equally yours as it is tree's.

I found an interesting use for the song auto-repeat feature that my mind comes with.

You are full of shit and games, Mandy.

Does it really feel good to think this way?

The person is never enlightened.

@Gesundheit

I had similar thoughts about the correspondence of the small mind with the big mind. However, there is nothing special about mathematics that allows it to model reality any better than other form of thought. Mathematics is extremely logical, to the point where computational process is mechanical. This is its strength because it forces the user to formulate their ideas very precisely, but it is also its flaw because it cannot deal with paradox. In order to advance mathematics, you have to be illogical and defy conventions that are absolute within other domains. You example of non-euclidean geometry is perfect for this. Everybody knew that the universe is flat until someone started questioning the 5th axiom. Then, all hell broke loose. Also, the idea that the small mind is somehow limited is an illusion. Where do insights come from? Where does the Unconscious end? The "person" has never came up with a single original idea because it is a set of rules and axioms that can be questioned for self-transcendence.

This discussion is just stupid. ?‍♂️ When convincing someone, if you are arguing, then you are losing. If you are trying to convince someone of nonduality, then you are not getting it.

A whole lot of misunderstandings. Harris sees no difference between awareness and consciousness. He says "my consciousness" and Rupert does not address this. Sam is not conscious. Consciousness is Sammy. The fact that Rupert's lights went out during surgery and that the world continued does not disprove Rupert's claims. Ruper seemed to have been bamboozled by this rhetoric. Also, nonduality does not exclude science, which was the main point over which Sam got so defensive about!

@seeking_brilliance can't wait to see it! Again, thank you it was amazing!

@seeking_brilliance If you were trying to communicate with the inner child, then maybe it would be easier if you made it more allegorical? It seemed to me very abstract to free the dog with my inner strength. I think it is why my imagination went along and made the strength concrete. So perhaps, you could represent the virtues as, let's say, items, or something else? Like in books for children?

I am speaking about me particularly here, so please don't take it as a general direction where you should take your craft. I would have liked it more open-ended. When I was endowed with the power of my choosing (strength), my child just went ahead and was strong, so I didn't have to invent anything to break the dog free. So giving encouragement when I already snapped the leash off was breaking the immersion. You took a risk when creating this story because wisdom, courage could yield very different approaches to the challenges you presented. So I understand that it must have been difficult to write one narrator for the whole story. I think that, all in all, you were too protective of me. As if you were unsure if I am imaginative enough to go along with you. This was so amazing that I'm sure that you could be bolder and just let the fantasy play out on the part of the listener. Now that I think of it, there were parts of the story that were mandatory, so perhaps this was the pressure for you? So that you wouldn't leave the listener behind?

IT TOOK ME 4679 POSTS TO GIVE MYSELF THE PERMISSION TO BELONG HERE

This was amazing! You are very creative and talented! I really liked the sound cues you sprinkled it with. The warm up was very good, I should practice it more. Somehow, the adventure was too realistic for me. I went ahead and just snapped the leash with my hands and I used magic to stop the rain. So I got desynchronized during the walk a few times. Got a good cry out of it though. Amazing!

Man, I wish I could do this. We're heading out into the woods tomorrow with my wife and her girl friend in hopes of building a fire. It feels awful to have the societal pressure on my back, telling me that is illegal and that we can get in trouble. Fuck you superego, I am going to do this and I am not going to be haphazard about it.

Are you ok? If you ever feel like sharing more of your adventure to someone that will not disbelieve it, I'm all ears.

@Vrubel You are repeating this over and over again. Realize how defensive you are. This is not a discussion about China's economy, but about atrocities they commit against minorities. You are acting like China's spokesperson in this thread. Stop diverting it's course.

"Just reinvent itself"? lol Ain't gonna happen. Not for a country this big.