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https://a.co/d/0cVslcI9 "The Fifty Deviant States Ten states for each of the five skandhas. Every one carries the same verdict: a temporary state, not sagehood — harmless if not claimed as attainment, ruinous if it is. His body can transcend obstructions — the body feels unobstructed, like open space, and it's taken as a spiritual power. Internally the light pervades and he can extract intestinal worms — he can see and reach inside his own body without injury, and takes it as mastery. His essence and souls alternately separate and unite — he hears the dharma being spoken in empty space and assumes an external teacher is speaking. The state changes and Buddhas appear — the world turns gold, all beings appear as buddhas, Vairochana is seen on a light platform, and it's assumed to be real. Space takes on the color of precious things — space appears jeweled and luminous, treated as a realm actually reached. He can see things in the dark — vision in total darkness, taken as a faculty permanently opened. His body becomes like grass or wood — the body goes insensible to pain, fire, or a blade, taken as having transcended the body. He can see everywhere without obstruction — walls and distance stop blocking sight, taken as omniscience. He sees and hears distant things — remote perception, taken as clairvoyance. False visions and false words — visions arrive with speech and doctrine attached, taken as revelation. Suppression of the self leads to sadness — overwhelming grief and self-reproach, read as compassion or purification. He praises himself as being equal to the Buddhas — a surge of energy and certainty, read as parity with the enlightened. Samadhi out of balance brings much reverie — sinking into dry absorption and daydream, mistaken for depth. Wisdom out of balance brings much arrogance — clarity outruns stability, conceit follows, and the conceit is read as authority. Passing through danger leads to anxiety — dread and weariness with living, read as an advanced trial on the path. Experiencing ease leads to joy — uncontainable joy and laughter, taken as confirmation. Seeing the sublime and becoming proud — he glimpses something genuinely fine and becomes proud of having seen it. With wisdom comes lightness and ease, which leads to complacency — effortlessness read as completion; practice stops. Becoming attached to emptiness and slandering precepts — emptiness used to deny cause and effect, which licenses misconduct. Becoming attached to existence and indulging in lust — appetite reframed as teaching, compassion, or transmission. Greed for clever skill — wants brilliance; gets fluency, and speaks doctrine he doesn't actually hold. Greedy for adventure — wants extraordinary experience; becomes a restless seeker of states. Greed for union — wants to merge with something greater. Greed to analyze things — wants to understand everything; produces a totalizing framework. Greed for spiritual responses — wants to be answered; signs and responses duly arrive. Greed for peace and quiet — pursues seclusion well past the point of usefulness. Greed to know past lives — claims knowledge of previous lives and dispenses it to others. Greed for spiritual powers — wants displays and transformations, and sometimes gets real ones. Greed for profound emptiness — wants extinction, and takes extinction for the goal. Greed for immortality — wants longevity or deathlessness. Two theories on the absence of cause — sees no beginning within his range of vision and concludes there was none. Four theories regarding pervasive permanence — mistakes mind, the elements, the consciousnesses, or the cessation of thought for something eternal. Four upside-down theories — splits permanence from impermanence: I am permanent and others aren't, or mind is and body isn't. Four theories regarding finiteness — speculates on limits — of time, of what he perceives, of self and others. Eight kinds of sophistry — evasion elevated to doctrine: only "no," only "yes," both, neither. The sixteen ways in which form can exist after death — projects the self forward as persisting with form. Eight ideas about the non-existence of form — projects the self forward as formless. Eight kinds of negation — neither existence nor non-existence after death. Seven theories on the cessation of existence — annihilation, at one level or another, taken as the truth. Five kinds of immediate Nirvana — declares the present state final, whether it's sense pleasure or one of the four dhyānas. Attachment to causes and that which is caused — takes the source of consciousness as the origin of all beings, making himself in effect their creator. Attachment to an ability that is not actually an ability — identifies with a pervading capacity he does not possess. Attachment to a wrong idea of permanence — takes what he has reached to be permanent. Attachment to an awareness that is not actually awareness — mistakes a residue for pure awareness. Attachment to birth that is not actually birth — mistakes an arising for genuine origination. Attachment to a refuge that is not actually a refuge — takes a resting place for the destination. Attachment to an unattainable craving — fixes on something that cannot be had and calls the fixation attainment. Attachment to truth that is not actually truth — takes a partial truth for the whole. Fixed-nature hearers — settles permanently at a real but lesser attainment. Fixed-nature pratyekas — settles at solitary realization and goes no further. 1–10 form skandha · 11–20 feeling · 21–30 thinking · 31–40 formations · 41–50 consciousness Headings are the text's own, from Yuan Ying's traditional outline. Descriptions are plain-language summaries. Full text free at cttbusa.org, Volume 8."

When some people answer the question "what is all this about?" they like to keep reminding themselves of the answer every day, and they like to show other people the shiny constructions they've built in their inner space, and they like to organize their life around it. This whole process allows them to build a "profound" identity. Do you know how easy it would be to take 100 people off the street and teach them the core tenants of these teachings, and to then tell them to practice solipsism until that felt experience dominates their reality? Like, this isn't difficult to do. It's how the mind works. It spins stories quite easily. People think that the more they exclude external reality, the closer to truth they're getting. That's how they measure their success - by how much they've altered their state while cycling through their spiritual conclusions. This is the same machinery psychosis runs on. Say it's all true. When does the excitement wear off? They need it to not die off. They need to keep talking about it and to keep reminding themselves about it. Isn't it interesting that they keep doing it day in and day out and it never occurs to them they're constructing the whole thing, no different than a psychotic constructs their reality. Something you actually know just sits there. Something you have to keep celebrating is something you're holding in place. Why does it need to be held in place?

I would pay very close attention to what the mind is doing here. If some black Americans had a thread titled “modern racism examples” and they just kept piling on thousands of examples, you have to ask yourself “what is the reason I’m doing this?” There is legitimate grievance but once the space is thoroughly fleshed out and understood, the next step is acceptance, not endless grievance. Actualized.org loves to hold the masses in contempt. Fools, rats, devils, etc. “Why am I doing this and what could I be getting from it?” Is a question that will eventually make you drop your grievance habit. Hopefully that makes sense.

Peace is overrated.

A mind that spins no stories about itself cannot be self-deceived.

Thanks! I'll share it if I ever complete it and remove all my personal info from it.

IQ is a few variables in a much larger picture. You have to look at configurations. Raw processing variables (what IQ primarily captures) Working memory capacity Processing speed Fluid reasoning / abstraction capacity Drive and orientation variables (what points the processing power) Need for cognition Systemizing drive Metacognitive access Epistemic drive Retrieval and processing style Linear vs. associative retrieval Convergent vs. divergent processing Receptive vs. acquisitive integration Epistemic and emotional variables Need for closure / comfort with ambiguity Openness to revision Intellectual honesty / epistemic humility Emotional integration Frustration tolerance Structural and contextual variables Crystallized knowledge base Domain breadth vs. depth Self-regulatory capacity Sensitivity to salience Social and environmental context Ben Shapiro has a high IQ, but it usually doesn't convert to intelligence for various reasons. "What is perception oriented toward in the first place?" determines a lot about how intelligence shows up and the particular shape of it. This is a badass project I need to finish.

Thread should be renamed to "Cultivating contempt for low conscious humans". "Let's start a mega-thread where we shit on idiots" Once you've processed 100 samples, the next 100 will be the same. To keep revisiting this topic is doing nothing but cultivating contempt. "Devilry" "Why do we make a habit of holding low conscious humans in contempt?" "What is the best way to accept conformity without making us contemptuous?" These types of questions cultivate development.

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That's because you whip its ass, lol.

The thought "she loves me" never did anything for me. Engagement or connection is love expressed, as opposed to stated. Some men want to be reminded they're loved, some want to be shown respect, and some want proof. IDK. It seems like happiness. The moment you start thinking about it, it's not there.

Emotion as guide.

Jesus Christ. This is the type of shit the banned folks were trying to keep at bay. lol

You seem like you just spent all day drafting an "I'd like to be a mod" letter to Leo. lol

Kimi K3 is no Fable but apparently it's not far off the mark. Tons of clickbait titles. Good video here though: Not super excited about sending my data to China either.