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Well the main function is that everything is recontextralized
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His followers are religious-oriented people.
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integral replied to Sincerity's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I rest my case lmao Its not a coincidence. Moving house = breathing different air not making you sick. If you spend years and years and years in a particular state and suddenly it just lifts out of nowhere, None of that is just psychological and all in your head, What happened is you were sick and now you're not. I've tried explaining this to people a thousand times now. Air has a massive impact on your level of consciousness, Because your body has to do a lot of work managing the stress from it and then when you relieve that stress you get a huge boost in cognition. I know this because the same thing happend to me. -
integral replied to Sincerity's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
No these are not the same type of question i asked. My questions point to state, yours have no impact on state. -
integral replied to Sincerity's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Did you move to a new house 6 months ago? Did you change your mattress? Did someone you lived with leave and your one less person in the space? Did you stop using Cologne or perfumes or incents or candles? -
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integral replied to Sincerity's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This is mostly related to physical health -
integral replied to Jannes's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Imagination as a game is gonna be the next big thing. -
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integral started following Buddhist Epistemology
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Sources of knowledge and justification -AI Buddhist concept Western counterpart How they relate Pramana (valid cognition; Dharmakirti: “non-deceptive cognition”) Theory of justification, especially reliabilism Both ask which cognitive processes reliably track truth. Buddhist pramana is about non-deceptive cognition, not the justified-true-belief analysis. Pratyaksa (direct perception, free of concepts) Nonconceptual content; sense-data theories Dignaga says raw perception contains no conceptual construction. Close to sense-data views, and unlike direct realism. Anumana and trairupya (inference and the three conditions of a valid reason) Deductive logic, syllogism Dharmakirti's conditions work like validity rules. It is closer to Aristotelian syllogism than to modern symbolic logic. Agama (testimony from a reliable source) Testimony as a source of knowledge (Reid, Coady) Dharmakirti tried to justify trusting the Buddha by his reliability on checkable matters, then extended that to unobservable ones, which is the contested step. Yogipratyaksa (yogic perception) Religious or mystical experience as evidence (William James, Alston) Treated as a valid source. The Western debate is the same: how to separate real insight from expectation (Katz's constructivism). Three wisdoms (heard, thought, meditated) Knowledge by testimony, by reasoning, by acquaintance (Russell) A good fit: learn it, reason about it, experience it. Mind, concepts and language Buddhist concept Western counterpart How they relate Kalpana (conceptual construction) Kant's synthesis; concept-ladenness of observation (Hanson, Kuhn) Both say concepts shape experience. For Kant they are necessary conditions. For Buddhists they are a distortion to be seen through. Svalaksana / samanyalaksana (particulars and generals) Nominalism vs realism about universals Buddhists are nominalists: universals are mental constructs. Apoha (meaning by exclusion) Nominalist and differential theories of meaning (Saussure) A concept means “not-other,” not a shared essence. The fit is loose. Svasamvedana (reflexive self-awareness) Brentano's inner perception; Sartre's pre-reflective consciousness Each cognition knows itself, which avoids the regress that higher-order theories face. Alaya-vijnana and bija (store of seeds) The unconscious; dispositional states; Husserl's passive synthesis A store of latent dispositions shaping experience. Not identical to Freudian or Jungian ideas. Vijnaptimatra (representation-only) Idealism (Berkeley), Kantian transcendental idealism Scholars disagree on whether Yogacara denies external reality or only claims we never know it directly. Skepticism, method and reasoning Buddhist concept Western counterpart How they relate Two truths (conventional and ultimate) Appearance vs reality; Kant's phenomena and noumena; levels of description Madhyamaka says even the ultimate is empty, so there is no ground behind appearances. That separates it from Kant. Prasanga (reductio) and catuskoti (four-cornered logic) Reductio ad absurdum; paraconsistent logic (Graham Priest) The reductio reading is standard. Priest's reading of the tetralemma is contested. Madhyamaka dialectic Pyrrhonian skepticism (Sextus Empiricus) Both suspend judgment, partly aimed at peace of mind. Beckwith argues for direct influence, which is disputed. Daigi (great doubt, Zen) Cartesian methodological doubt; Socratic aporia Descartes doubts to find certainty. Zen doubt aims to dissolve the questioner. Debate training Dialectic, disputation Formal adversarial debate as a method of testing arguments. Self-deception, bias and mental training Buddhist concept Western counterpart How they relate Viparyasa (four distortions), anusaya, prapañca, moha Cognitive biases, motivated reasoning (Kahneman, Tversky) Both catalogue systematic errors. The Buddhist list comes from introspection and aims at liberation. The Western list is tested in experiments. Yoniso manasikara, sati, sampajanna (wise attention, mindfulness, clear comprehension) Metacognition; virtue epistemology (Zagzebski) Knowing as a trained trait of character. Vipassana / dhammavicaya (insight; investigation) Phenomenology (Husserl's epoche); introspection; neurophenomenology (Varela) Systematic first-person observation. Buddhism trains it far more deliberately. Ehipassiko (come and see) Empiricism, but with only private verification Appeals to experience without independent replication. Anatman / skandhas Hume's bundle theory; Parfit's reductionism Strong parallel. Both deny a unified, persisting self. Relevant to OP's barcode. What each side has that the other lacks Western only Buddhist only (or far more developed) Symbolic logic, probability and Bayesian reasoning Systematic attention and introspective training Experimental method, statistics, replication A framework that links knowing to ending suffering Falsification and philosophy of science Detailed maps of meditative states and their pitfalls Experimentally measured cognitive biases The analysis of how the sense of self is constructed Peer review and a norm of revising foundations I was surprised to find that Buddhism actually strongly focuses on epistemology. It's just never taught. And basically, no one knows about it. 😂
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integral replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yeah knowwwww, it could be more twisted than that, unfortunately. We bred them to perfectly give us what we want at the emotional level. But we don't know what their lived experience is. -
victim mindset, yeah It's largely a disease inherited from parenting from what i can tell
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wow this is a old thread from 2021 Multiple companies, one is called Pascal. I do a lot of freelance work and other personal companies i own with near 0 success lol I honestly don't remember writing this thread lol its from 2021. I think I was mostly complaining about the lack of substance with all conversations. The point of conversation is entertainment and vibe, That is what everyone is conditioned to care about and want from it. Bad vibe is a social crime at this point.
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The title just makes me laugh every time I read it. "DO NOT APPROUCH WOMAN".
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integral replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
To a dog, a human is their sense of safety and security. When the human goes away, let's imagine they leave the house, they often get abandonment anxiety. Let's imagine a CEO that has a business partner who their whole business depends on him. And the relationship with his business partner is everything. If they lose this partner, their whole business fails. The CEO will have severe anxiety making sure this partner does not die, nothing goes wrong and everything is perfectly in place and will stress like crazy about it. The CEO has a dependency. To a dog, you're that partner. Their life depends on you. -
integral replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It is confusing the way I communicated it. What I meant is the dog's relationship with everything, which is all an unconscious thing, might be a certain way. When we look at some random object, It's not thinking that causes it to be separate from us. It's an automatic association and relationship we've built. Which is a baked in paradigm. If we don't think at all and we're just being, we still have a default way of experiencing and relating to things. -
integral replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Thought Art I was describing its paradigm not a thinking process. A dog can have a worldview and a way of understanding everything without thinking at all. There could be creatures on this planet that have Wild paradigms that look nothing like their own. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mBjH5DG19R4
