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The solution to a mental model? There is no solution, it's a mental model. All mental models fulfill the purpose of being a mental model. It never represents what is real so it never "solves" what is real. You know, if you're constantly editing and reimagining truth, maybe the way you're perceiving it is just wrong, straight up? How is it that you EVER misinterpreted truth? This is a serious issue.

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No such thing

But you made an entire thread inquiring about it. And then continued an argument after you said this. ?

No matter what happens, you will always have to perceive the "unawareness" through awareness, or else "unawareness" doesn't exist, and so you always perceive it through some sort of memory, no matter what. You can't escape awareness. You can see that this "unawareness" is always entangled in awareness, somehow. Existentially, this unawareness is not actually some existential and metaphysical unawareness, that is impossible. Rather, it is a change in memory, time, physical function, etc, so it has all to do with awareness and things that you are aware of. You are perceiving drastic differences in experience, which make you infer a gap in experience, but this gap is only inferred through the differences that you are absolutely aware of, and not unaware of. This bundle of experience is what the average human calls "unawareness" or "unconsciousness", but truly it is neither of those things existentially or metaphysically, it is just an experience of you inferring unawareness, but never unawareness being experienced (this is a paradox and can never happen).

You're not actually surrendering to anything. You're just giving up your ideas about existence. When those go away, you realize, "oh there was nothing to surrender to in the first place." What exists is what exists. The only thing that could need surrendering is just some idea about something that doesn't exist, otherwise you already have what you want, which is what is real and exists. Tune in with what is real.

Oh no, the Matrix got him?

You wouldn't happen to own any bows or arrows, would you? Just out of pure curiosity.

I mean, I wasn't in Vegas, so maybe you know more about Pete than I do.

Memory is not awareness. How are you perceiving this "unawareness" you speak of?

He has a new neighborhood to stroll through: Heaven

mental model syndrome

Yeah

I don't think they are operating from self-image, which I believe is the basis of the shift. If you want to add the qualifier of "self-reflection" to it, then enlightenment just becomes a human phenomenon. I don't like this, because it kind of implies that it's separate from other states or experiences, and it also turns it into something human. It's just the natural and truest state of things. It's just a complete relinquishing to experience, whatever that experience may involve, whether it's being a cat, a bird, etc. I don't think cats second guess their experience or imagine anything on top, same for babies or other organisms which have not developed an imaginative intelligence as high as normal functional humans. It is normal, but I think this can be changed. Most people just don't take any of this seriously, and they are sick of hearing the word enlightenment. It needs to be communicated in a more direct and palpable manner, so that you don't have to journey off into some cave somewhere, but rather just do it from home or something. But yes, this is the reality of most people nowadays.

True, if everyone relinquishes their carnal desires, cave demand goes up. The next version of capitalism.

Thank you. Don't know how to define it really. I've always been super critical of reality and its metaphysics, so to speak. For me, reality was like a video game, and I was always trying to question it and find "bugs" in my experience. Same goes for humans and any ideologies they tried to push onto me. But really, it was just simple sober contemplation and self inquiry. I look at experience, and I ask, what are you hiding from me? Do you really work this way? What if I assume that you work this way instead? etc. And, experience can't hide anything from you of course, you just have direct access to it all the time. If your assumption is wrong, it will just get rid of it for you through your own conscious experience. If it's right, it will just be confirmed by experience. It's all direct, right there in front of you. I genuinely believe any human can become enlightened through simple sober inquiry. It's not directly some genetic thing. It's learned. You can unlearn it, and become enlightened. Cats are enlightened. Worms are enlightened. Babies are enlightened, since they have no object permanence. It's just that humans gain intelligence in the form of memory and imagination, and we get tangled up in this intelligence. Our intelligence starts telling us "You have to always use this form of intelligence to navigate reality", and so on. My specific enlightenment experience is briefly described in this post:

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Aw, that makes me happy :)

You can't actually think you're enlightened, it's just an experience. So there's no "thinking" that is involved in enlightenment, it's just an experiential shift. I still have my old personality or whatever, but all the neuroticism has been removed. Just like a cat wouldn't become an "enlightened person." Cats are naturally enlightened, and they are not human, and they don't have any ideas about it. I am well aware that "enlightened" is a label that appears to describe people who achieved this. But, it really isn't about the person. It's about what the person achieved. And that word isn't even used in some circles. There's no certain way I'm supposed to act after enlightenment, really, the way I act either naturally changes as a result (the neuroses disappear), or I'm just completely the same. I'm definitely more loving and all that, but that's a strict consequence of the experience shift, it's not something I'm forcing or intellectualizing out of some newfound enlightened ego. You can think of it that all of this is just me looking at my experience and thinking, how can I communicate this to this guy? It's just intellectual, not embodied, probably. He remembers understanding it from some trip, but now it's just converted to memory, hence, no embodiment. There is an existential aspect embedded in experience that supports the intellectual conclusion and allows you to actually just live in it without depending on any intellectualization or philosophy or memory, and then this would be "embodying." If I had to guess, he might be misinterpreting enlightenment as an end to exploring psychedelics or something of the sort, which is not the case. I also saw him make this analogy that people chasing enlightenment are "just trying to reduce suffering" and that "truth has nothing to do with suffering", which is again, not the case, because enlightenment is truth, the reduction in suffering is just a side effect. If I had to guess further, he is misinterpreting newer and more intelligent states as "more to understand", but like existentially, they literally become untrue once they are not being experienced. So, more "stuff", as Ralston puts it. It doesn't change what you are. It just recontextualizes "stuff", which is relative. The truth of what you are never changes though, and then that is not relative, and it is experienced in every experience.

Vita Coco I wouldn't even consider coconut water because of the added sugar and acidity, it has a very odd flavour profile for sure. It's very tangy because of the added vitamin C.

100% Depending on the brand, you will get a completely different taste and nutritional profile (sugar and potassium will vary a lot) Best brands IMO are Thirsty Buddha, Thirsty Buddha Organic (probably the healthiest, high potassium low sugar), Blue Monkey, Taste Nirvana (tastes the best) You just wanna find one that is not from concentrate and has nothing added to it, can't really go wrong with those

Paradoxically, in order to find what you are, you have to let go of the desire to find what you are and just let experience happen by itself. Because the thing that is desiring to be "found" or "identified" is an error, it is a thought form, and you cannot make contact with yourself using it. That "happening by itself" is what you are. You cannot explicate experience further. Experience doesn't have to identify with anything to be itself. You don't have to identify with anything to be you. You are experienced, therefore you are experience. When you're trying to identify yourself, it's like a TV that is trying to display itself on its own screen. The medium of the screen is wrong. No matter how accurately it displays itself, it will never actually approximate itself and it will always fall short, because it's just an image appearing on itself. The TV does not realize this, so it spends the rest of its life trying to understand itself and perfect its understanding of itself, but the input of "understanding" or "displaying accurate images" is unnecessary, because the TV just exists exactly as what it is by itself, so all it has to do to find itself is literally nothing. It can't not be itself, even if it gets the wrong image on its screen. The TV creates a problem for itself that does not exist. There is no "self-image", because it's just an image, so it has nothing to do with "self." It can't ever be correct. A rock has no self-image problems. A rock doesn't have to identify with anything. That rock is part of you, and its existence is as factual as YOU. You are the entire thing, including the rock, and the trees, and the chair, and the sky. How does the sky have self-love or self-image problems? Your existence is as seamless as the sky or any other object, because they are all part of you, and they are you. Unknowingly, you are separating "you", which is the entirety of experience, and you are focusing on this image of yourself, just like the TV, and you can contort this image any way you want, you can imagine that it lacks love, you can imagine that it is stupid, etc. But none of these ideas can actually affect your love, or your intelligence, because it is always just an IMAGE of those things, not love or intelligence itself, hence, "self-image." When someone calls you stupid, it doesn't ACTUALLY change your intelligence. But, despite that, it still affects how you perceive yourself. Now you start thinking that you ARE stupid. This is the where the crux of all this discrepancy is. You cannot point to anything that is actually "stupid" in your experience right now, because it's not you or experience, it's just an image that you created. Existentially, you are just wrong to ascribe that quality to yourself. It doesn't exist.

My initial inclination is to answer "yes", but I find that this immediately creates a separation in your mind that says "I am not the part of my experience that is changing", which is not true. It's kind of paradoxical. Enlightenment is something that doesn't change (because it's absolutely true) and it applies to all experiences, but experience itself does change all the time. But, there is a meta-logic, or "truth", to all experience that is always there, and that is "you." So this "enlightenment" thing is always present, even when the contents and ideas of experience change. It's just always true, and thus it is truth. It is what all experience runs on, so to speak. To further Ralstons point, in the video he says "It's the nature of stuff, it's not stuff", which is basically correct, but it is also intimately interwoven with all "stuff", so it's not that there is some part of reality hiding in the background which is more true and separate from "stuff."

Sorry for the late reply. My main advice from this would just be that, when you start eating healthily, if you eat that way long enough, your body will get accustomed to that, and then there will come a point where when you try to "indulge" in junk food again, you'll just be like "Holy shit what the fuck did this just do to my body? Why did I think this was a good idea? There are foods that taste just as good as this, and don't make me feel like shit, so why am I eating this?" Also, your body craving things or being hungry or malnourished is completely valid. If you have not eaten properly, you will be hungry, and your body will look for ANY food source to satiate it. So, don't try to combat this feature of your body, work with it. When you're at some pizza shop, and you feel a strong craving for pizza, that means you simply didn't give the body enough food and nutrients it needed beforehand, so now it is seeking out the closest source of nutrition possible. Work with the intelligence of your body. The body doesn't play around, it only thinks in life or death. It is a fact that if you eat ANY food in proper porportions, there will come a point where you are simply full and completely satiated. Just do this with healthy food, and you won't have a desire to binge on anything. From time to time, I will eat things that are not optimal if my energy levels are low and I haven't eaten properly, but I tend to be very careful about it, and I try to wash it down with some hot drink like coffee or tea to make the digestion more efficient. This is what it means to eat intuitively. All food is fuel and energy, none of it is really "junk" per say, it just might be trickier to utilize or metabolize. It's up to you how you want to utilize the fuel source.

Interesting idea of shrinking everyone. I have also had this idea, though, that if everyone just started eating more healthily and consciously, the load on the environment would simply dissipate naturally. Like, Imagine if no one wanted to use unhealthy plastics anymore, or if no one cared about eating tubs of ice cream anymore.