Rasheed

Lately I started spiritual notion of completely escaping suffering and unconditional happiness many Buddhist teachers, Eckhart Tolle, sometimes Osho and others talk about. I have to be honest, I think is bullshit. Calling life's condition 'periphery' and saying that only 'center' matters, life conditions do not matter, as Osho says is bullshit. When Osho went to jail, he wanted hell out of there but if we ask him, 'it was just a periphery'...Unconditional happiness, happiness 24/7, no matter what happens, no matter what time it is or what is going on is impossible, (in my opinion) no matter if one spends perfectly, precisely, rigorously doing a meditation practice for 20 years. Same thing about suffering. How can one completely stop suffering, any pain or discomfort? Completely eliminate oneself out of it even if one perfectly meditates 16 hours a day for next 20 years? Seriously, how? I think because survival won't allow it. No amount of enlightenment can make one transcend survival because these spiritual teachers, Eckhart Tolle, Osho are still human with survival bias. Survival doesn't allow complete stoppage of suffering or unconditional happiness. I think Aristotle is more on point when he says that suffering is inherent to life but one can decrease it by living virtuously and when it comes to happiness, one can become happy by living a virtuous, conscious life. I am not saying I am correct, this is my view, I can be 100% wrong. Lately, I have been contemplating spiritual concepts which I took for granted because actually thinking that all suffering must cease and one must be happy 24/7 in order to be developed, conscious, 'enlightened' is great way to f-up one's life and psyche.

Let’s just take Leo’s example, if we put Osho, the master of masters in a room with 24/7 B-Spears music, won’t he suffer or naked in Siberian winter? Seriously, won’t even Osho suffer? how about claim of unconditional, 24/7 happiness? How are these people selling 24/7 happiness I don’t get it.

Thing is since complete cessation of suffering is not possible, why are these gurus still selling it? Still selling unconditional happiness and complete escape from suffering?

Exactly. It’s unfortunate that they are selling end of suffering and unconditional 24/7 happiness in what can be called Buddhist/spiritual business and marketplace.

How to break the duality between a priori and a posteriori knowledge?

Why is that the case?

Taking insights from Derrida's philosophy, a prior knowledge becomes questionable...

I forgot to mention above: That above duality is big in the western philosophy. Non dual teachers say that all dualities break…Hey, maybe above duality is unbreakable…maybe not…

Why is therapy (by therapy I mean psychology therapies...) expensive but at the same ineffective?

If we assess western philosophy, one can easily conclude that most of western philosophers (assessing it from SD 8 levels of development) were stage orange, Derrida was green. Looking at western psychology, most of psychologists are orange again, Jung and Perls for example are green, Fromm and Maslow are Yellow. Ken Wilber is rare western intellectual who reached highest levels of development obviously but as I have said: most of western philosophers were quite underdeveloped including likes of Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, Descartes i.e these are big name philosophers who actually did not pass rational level…Imagine that for a moment. Hence reading these philosophers maybe quite waste of time because one might not develop by reading them, that much… Maybe I am wrong…Please explain why.

Week ago I asked if ChatGPT will replace humans...When I further thought about the topic I realized I asked the wrong question. My real question was not will ChatGPT replace humans but: How will ChatGPT influence income of knowledge workers? e.g. How will it influence incomes of programmers, artists, writers, marketers, so on and so forth? My question is not if this will people be replaced, no, my question is: How will ChatGPT influence economy and incomes of people who work with their mind, and do not do manual work with their physical body...

This question is dumb but still I wanted to ask it: What's the point of reading books If I forget them anyway? Seriously, I read 500 page books by Friedrich Perls or Sigmund Freud, how am I supposed to remember this stuff? Am I doing something wrong? I am not taking any notes, should I? Do you remember what you read? Do you remember the book you've read 2 years ago? That's why I am thinking, what If I read 200 books and then I forget all this shit I read, what was the point? This means I wasted my time and reading books is waste of time?...

Thanks everyone for answers, I found them really helpful.

Can one learn how to fight at home? I do not mean to become elite professional fighter...I mean amateur, normal, average-level like learn how to punch, kick, doing basic combat moves at home alone, by oneself? And If yes, what to do and how many times per week and how long?

Will 'ChatGPT' make people lose their jobs? Jobs which 'ChatGPT' can easily threaten: Accountant Programmers Content Writing Marketers etc...You can fill in the spaces

I don’t know…I think we have woken up in super uncertain, super fast changing the world, ChatGPT and AI will change entire game for every single industry more than invention of internet, phone, TV, radio, Wi-Fi ever did…It basically makes intellect and knowledge work obsolete and pointless because how can one compete with it? Impossible

I was asking about coders i.e programmers not software architects…Just noticed that actually…

What are other careers at risk? ChatGPT is nuts…. When will be then next iteration? This thing is supposed to develop fast? What do you mean by “long run”…If this things develops and delivers on the promise, most people won’t have food to put on their plate because human cannot compete with ChatGPT

Do I have to read 10 Freud books and 10 Jung books in order to become a highly developed, great psychologist who can actually help people?

? Both points are 100%

Thank you. That’s what I am going to do and what I am doing, your book list is very, very powerful. What else do you mean “alone will not be enough”? I did not really explain myself at the top of the thread, my goal is to write a psych theory book, not really therapy even though I am studying that as well… Like, my mindset is If I read good high quality 100-200 books about psychology, would I not be able to write high quality book myself? Maybe I am wrong, I don’t know…Is that wrong mindset and approach to have?

But what about wanting to write a book, I want to write a great psych book, this thread was not about coaching…

@Leo Gura My main goal more than therapist if was truly honest is to write a great psych book in a future. So key for that would be more meditation, contemplation than reading books. I consider Ken Wilber helping people more indirectly than a therapist, I mean he helped me shit ton for example I am actually studying psychology in University

Really? I thought reading psych theory was all that is needed to become a great therapist. OMG… but I care about psych theory as well, like that would help me to write a good psych book in a future…I suppose maybe I am wrong about that as well

that is what I am doing actually and that is why I am asking here what to do, I don’t waste countless hours reading these therapy books, and get nowhere in the end because they are so long winded mental gymnastics