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If you look at the water in your hands long enough, you will notice the volume decrease and it starts to disappear until there is nothing left. Then you ask, where did the water go? If you divide a rock, and then divide the divisions, and divide the divisions of the divisions, is there a point where you can’t divide anymore because there are indivisible units? Democritus used common sense reasoning applied to simple observations like this to postulate the existence of atoms. When we ask “why?” we go down the rabbit hole to the unseen and the unknown.

Learn to grow mushrooms. You will not only clean your room but learn to sanitize it removing every bacteria and mold. Then you will have proved yourself worthy to receive knowledge.

During the 1970s, the psychology departments were dominated by behaviorism – the notion that we are stimulus-response machines, and the mind is a myth. This triteness was finally debunked by Chomsky – a linguist. The most popular therapy is now cognitive therapy, which its founders admit comes from stoicism, which is over a thousand years old. They had to go that far back to find something that works. What was the value of anything done in the 20th century? Now they have claimed mindfulness as a therapy, which goes back thousands of years. Again, why do they have to reach back to ancient methods. What have they done? Their one claim to discovery is the unconscious – but Hinduism knew about this thousands of years ago.

Tibetan Buddhism has a tradition of debating Buddhist logic. It would be interesting to get the answer of a Tibetan Buddhist monk. A Zen Master will just hit you over the head with a stick. That works too.

Buddhism is concerned with liberation. It’s not something you play with conceptually. It is something to be verified (or not) by direct observation. Observe the moment by moment changes in your images, thoughts, and feelings. Notice that everything you sense arises and then falls away. Deepen your awareness. Follow the impermanence all the way to liberation.

The interesting thing to note is that Peterson has mastered his subject of psychology and it does him absolutely no good in finding happiness or living life. I can sympathize because I have read hundreds of psychology books and have found very little wisdom in them. But then he writes another useless psychology book giving people advise. Most therapists are equally as lost. Western psychology is almost entirely useless.

What the Democrats will never admit is that Trump was the “trunk monkey”. This comes from a commercial several years ago. A man is stuck in traffic and this dangerous looking thug comes up to his window and starts threatening him. The man in the car calmly pushes a button on his dash with the label “trunk monkey”. The trunk opens and this large monkey jumps out carrying a tire iron and quickly takes care of the thug. In other words, when you are dealing with someone you consider dangerous and unreasonable, you vote for the trunk monkey, not Eckhart Tolle. Leftist politics use to be about the issues of worker rights and wealth inequality. Somehow the postmodernist academics hijacked the democratic party, and are focusing on “words” because postmodernists believe words are reality. In my opinion, this isn’t progressive but serves the interests of the financial oligarchs by diverting attention from the current trend towards extreme wealth inequality. Here is an example of academic obsession with words – the flip-chart is racist. http://joyfulpublicspeaking.blogspot.com/2019/02/is-flip-chart-racist-term.html

This is a good website that summarizes the spiritual psychology developed by the desert fathers around the third century AD. https://www.unseenwarfare.net/

Does anybody else find Teal’s selection of the word “containment” to be somewhat odd? Here is one definition: Containment: 1) the act or condition of containing. 2) an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of another, especially a hostile nation. 3) an act or policy of limiting the expansion or spread of a natural disaster, contagious disease, or other dangerous thing. 4) (in a nuclear power plant) an enclosure completely surrounding a nuclear reactor, designed to prevent the release of radioactive material in the event of an accident. Could someone using this term as something she needs actually be expressing her fear of being dangerous to herself and others? I think the useful lesson for a man here is to ask a woman the question: “what do you need from a man?” and then listen to what she is telling you about herself, and then decide if she is someone healthy that you would want to be with. I would prefer someone who says something like “I am looking for a partner with whom I can grow and enjoy life”. If she says she needs containment, I will give her a geiger counter.

They are in the subconscious which lies between consciousness and source. They might arise as part of the process of purification. It is the realm of power and blockage. The important thing is to use it for growth and not get trapped by the entertainment.

Sex relations have deteriorated since the 1960s. It use to be common for people to have 50 year wedding anniversaries. The rigid sex roles gave guidance on what to expect and how to act. Also, women in former times were psychologically stronger than they are today. It also doesn’t help that postmodernists insist on inventing new genders by playing word games to confuse things even further.

Here is one example of illusion. Look at the space in your room right now. Do you experience it as being still and the same space? Well we know it isn’t because the earth is rotating at 1000 miles per hour. If you could measure the space you are at by cartesian coordinates centered on some point in the galaxy you would see that what you are looking at as an unmoving space is actually continually changing. The human nervous system was evolved to survive and thus is not necessarily accurate. Accuracy is not necessary for survival. It would not improve survival to be able to detect the constant motion of the earth. Our nervous system filters out this unnecessary information.

Kant placed space as one of the categories of mind that we only experience as phenomena and not the noumena which we never can know. “Space is not an empirical concept which has been derived from outer experiences. For in order that certain sensations be referred to something outside me (that is, to something in another region of space from that in which I find myself), and similarly in order that I may be able to represent them as outside and alongside one another, and accordingly as not only different but as in different places, the representation of space must already underlie them [dazu muß die Vorstellung des Raumes schon zum Grunde liegen]. Therefore, the representation of space cannot be obtained through experience from the relations of outer appearance; this outer experience is itself possible at all only through that representation.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/#OrigOurReprSpac

Years ago, I would attend meditation retreats with Shinzen Young at a meditation place in the center of Los Angeles. There was always noise and sometimes even gun shots. He would tell us that the noise is an equally valid source of meditation. You hear the noise and note “noise”. You can also meditate on the reverberations in your mind, like the irritation, anger, etc. It is all good as an object of meditation. People talking may be a problem because it engages the intellectual mind. But we were doing Vipassana meditation, which uses sensations and feelings as the object of meditation.

Putin isn´t afraid to explain and talk about significant things. He is so interesting. In contrast, American politicians are completely scripted and everything that comes out of their mouths is insignificant and boring. This is part of living in a postmodern prison.

At the highest level of international politics, the world is run no different than a group of “mafia” crime families. It’s actually more brutal than that. The mafia doesn’t have nuclear weapons and the willingness to use them if certain boundaries are passed. The mafia doesn’t bomb villages full of innocent people. That’s why I believe Shunyamurti.

Americans overestimate the power of the presidency. The Empire enforces its territory no matter who is in office. Trump actually had a more peaceful foreign policy than Biden.

When I was a child, I was put under with Ether for an operation. It did cause hallucinations when I was going under. With the modern anesthesia, you just go out and wake up when its over.

If you don’t learn anything from each interaction, then 1 approach is exactly the same as 1000. The point is to learn something and become more skillful. That is why the goal should be to connect, not approach. He is not connecting. It’s like the woman isn’t even there for him.

My ex wife was 20 years younger than me. But because of her challenging life experiences, we were at the same level of maturity. We split up for other reasons but are still best friends. Age is just one factor in determining compatibility.

People use to commonly gossip like this when they saw a mixed race couple. Gossip brings out the ugliness in people. It's better to mind one's own business and be happy that someone else is happy rather than trying to undermine them.

He starts the discussion at 36 min. talking about being tricked by the left into playing the game of identity politics and warns about developing the emotion of resentment which is very dark and leads to hell. His first explanation goes from 36min - 42min.

I wonder which of these feelings of attraction to the strong masculine are healthy biologically determined female behavior and which are unhealthy neurotic needs? Where do you draw the line? At the one extreme, the need for an “asshole” is clearly the result of neurosis. But even the need for an alpha male seems to involve the fantasy of someone else making you happy. I can see why Buddhist monks take a vow of celibacy. Instead of getting trapped in this drama that creates endless suffering, sexual energy can be used to support awakening.

Conservative groups driven by Real Estate agents have been spreading the meme that California is a failed state and encouraging Californians to move to Texas. I wonder what some of these transplant conservatives are thinking now that they are trying to survive in a house with no heat when the temperature in the night dips below zero. The negligence is so huge and the consequences so tragic. What do people do who have babies or small children? I am surprised there aren´t more casualties. They can´t be allowed to get away with this through their media propaganda. Don´t people know that Denmark has windmills that operate in winter?

The lady in the first video was way more insightful than the Teal Swann “asshole” nonsense. She was actually introspecting on her immediate emotions and trying to make sense of it all. The other videos go back to the typical shallow stuff that women say, but may not reflect the deeper feelings that create a bond in the moment.