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I wouldn't know, it seems most people can't feel any part of their body unless they're being touched and theres motion involved. It should be pretty easy to direct awareness to any part of the body and feel the skin on it. Like are people incapable of feeling there own skin? The skin of the entire body and every nerve in the body is constantly sending signals to the brain. It just depends in whether you're paying attention to it or not.

Puzzle 11 Black to Play and win. Warning this is not strictly a puzzle. This is a famous game between (white) Mikhail Botvinnik vs (black) Mikhail Tal See if you can play like Tal, black to play.

As a reference there is a core book "The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness". There are 10 stages in this book and the 6-7 stage is "unlock full body awareness". The entire book is about unlocking the body awareness and unifying the mind systems. Level 1: be aware of your feet. Level 2: be aware of your feet and your knee at the same time. Level 3: be aware of your feet and your knee and your hands and your breath at the same time. ... so on. But what im pointing to is full body awareness is not advanced, its a prerequisite for health and any quality of life and longevity. It is sickness/trama/stressors/survival pressure that we are disconnected from the body. Its the natural state to be is a full body awareness. Its like imagine getting under the cover as a kid and feeling the confort of the pillow and mattress. This is basic self awareness to be aware of the body. but most people if you ask them to feel there toes they cant. Not at all, that i would categorize as a advanced state. Im speeking of things much simpler, just to be aware of the entire body and from there it is natural to include everything in ones experience. In the morning right when waking im blocked off and i concentrate to open the gate again and re-enter state of full awareness. The Buddhist word is piti/sukha (rapture/pleasure), waves throughout the body. its a common jhana technique, but i would categorize this as advanced and not average. Base line basic health is full body awareness and relaxation. Teachings often focus on body scanning, to practice unlocking the body. How can a person relax if there not aware of the body? The basic prerequisite for relaxation is that you could feel the relaxation in your body. And if someone can't feel their body relaxing, this is so unhealthy and leads to every chronic illness and ego games.

I can concentrate so hard on one point in my body that it hurts. I can concentrate so hard on my hand that I have a hand orgasm. I can feel the poop moving through my intestinal track at all times. I can feel brain regions activating depending on the task I'm doing. If you focus on your hand, you could notice that there is a inner relaxation and if you keep amplifying an amplifying it, you eventually feel ecstasy.

The standard framing: Meditation is a practice to achieve special states Enlightenment/awakening is the goal, something beyond ordinary The stages are accomplishments Full body awareness is an advanced skill Real framing: Full body awareness is baseline health The "stages" are rehabilitation from damage There's nothing special about it, it's just being human properly Spiritual practice is physical therapy for a civilization-wide injury "Awakening" is just waking up from a pathological state, not transcending normality --- Your normal state is supposed to be full body awareness. This is the natural state of being. If you're not doing this, you're in a contracted state of sickness, where the default mode network and ego are the master and there's no meta-observer. Vast majority of people can't do basic body scanning, this is extreme sickness, causing poor blood flow to your limbs, the body can't generate heat properly, your body can't digest properly, your mind can't observe itself, causing mental sickness. You were supposed to be in full body awareness all the time! This is the basic form of being. And spiritual teachers don't know this, they had to practice to develop full body awareness, so they confuse it for enlightenment and higher stages of being when it's just basic being. This is the basic foundation of how to operate a body not enlightenment. --- All insights come from being in the correct state of being, State comes first. Everything else follows. Correct state → natural wisdom, natural non-attachment, natural presence Damaged state → desperate attachment, mental chaos, need for teachings When you're in the right state, the insights are self-evident. You don't need someone to teach you impermanence, you feel it. You don't need to practice non-attachment, grasping doesn't arise. You don't need someone to teach you love, it self evident. ITS ALL SELF EVIDENT. Stop focussing on being taught and just practice to get yourself in a healthy state of being. --- Most people cant feel there toes! Body scanning is REHABILITATION. You are in a sick suffocating state not aware of your entire body at all times. You should be aware of everything simultaneously all the time, all the sound in your environment, all the sound in your head, all the thoughts in your head, all the feelings of your body, the observer, observing the observer. While you're thinking, you should hear the birds behind you all happening simultaneously. It is all one field.

It's nearly impossible for the normal person to achieve E. Tolle state of being following what he says. He's giving people fish instead of teaching them how to fish

lmao Black to move and win.

I can make a meta chess site for us to play with. I just need help figuring out the game play.

It would be fun, but maybe we'll play Meta chess, or else the better player will always win. There isn't that much of luck in chess when there's big skill gaps.

It's very similar to when I used to fall asleep while playing chess. One part of my brain is doing logical thinking and the other parts is doing something else and you become half asleep.

mr. Potter, care for a game of wizards chess?

Puzzle 10: The Quiet move Black to move and win. The counter intuitive moves in chess are the quiet moves, this is were chess really shines. Its the beginner that believes sacrificing the queen is counter intuitive, the problem with it is sacrifices are forceful and forceful moves are the first thing everyone learns to calculate. Its the quiet moves that take time to learn and master and are the heart of chess. The Hand of God are the quiet moves.

For years, I've been redesigning the keyboard because the regular keyboard layout never made any sense to me. I recently switched to a Mac and the first thing i did was remapped some basic keys, maybe you guys would find this interesting. caps lock -> Speech to text tab -> enter Tild (button bellow escape key) -> backspace Command + tab -> screen shot This way your left hand could always stay on the keyboard and your right hand could stay on the mouse, now you don't need to move your right hand to the keyboard as often saving a lot of time. I used karabiner elements (mac) to remap.