Rishabh R

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  4. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R

    My meditation duration is typically 12 to 20 minutes. But today I meditated  more than 20 minutes which is basically 22 minutes and 35 seconds. 

    At the last phase of meditation I noticed something about mental activity. 

    While I was meditating a Hindu worship song was being played nearby in the colony beside my flat . My mind was focussed or say attentive on that song and when that song stopped my mind focussed on something else.

    I came to realise that attention is the root cause of attachment. Our minds pay attention to something and gets attached to it.

    By the way I was trying to meditate for 30 minutes but I failed.😂

     

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    8 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

    Having a job, being married, having kids, cars, being wealth.

    This is a perfection ideal.

    People strive to meet this social standards. "This is what society should be". This is what humans should look like. 

    Ideals. Ideals. Ideals.

    They are striving to make you look perfect based on social standards, doing "what is right".

    Even if one achieved these ideals they will feel empty inside once these things become normal part of their life.

    8 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

    A sense of perfection permeates humanity like a mind virus.

    It is an engine that perpetuates society. 

    You are always looking for ways to become more intelectual, spiritual, beautiful, powerful, stronger. 

    When will you arrive? 

    Yeah absolutely but most people don't do self help which is even worse as they fall into the trap of self-indulgence instead of self discipline which makes them unhappy.

    Regarding ways to become more beautiful, stronger ,spiritual and intellectual it is life experiences that makes us grow not chasing ideal of perfection. The best thing to do is to pick up one self-help practice and do it over a long period of time without getting distracted by fluffy promises that almost every self halp tactics gives you. This is the best way I know how to get results from self-help. One would never achieved perfection but would make progress.

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    I contemplated for 45 minutes- What are the lessons from my failures in life ? Here are the answers. 

    -That more I avoid failure the worst it will hit me

    -That I will always have the chances to succeed

    -They more I avoid hard work more I will fail

    - I care too much about girl's action

    -That random actions are inefficient in succeeding 

    -Being 100% honest about my hardwork and then taking action to fill the gap can improve my chances of succeeding

    -That my actions are far more important to my life than other's actions

    -That of I don't accept failure then I will be constantly reactive to it which will make success less likely

    -That it doesn't matter how much I fail but weather I try again after each failure

    -That putting consistent effort in right direction is far more important than directionless effort

    -That failures are better test of succeeding in life than success themselves

    -That failures are not a negative thing but unsuccessful attempts

    -That I overgenralize and catastrophize negative events

     

     

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    @Nemra Leo explained in his video avoidance of truth. Truth tellers have to be killed and imprisoned because they are gonna spoil the fantasy of society at large. Example - Socrates , Gandhi etc. 

    @Leo Gura So there must be serious consequences of building things on falsehood that these institutions have to go through. And since you talked about survival a lot what are your views on thriving. Like can one thrive in life without falsehood or is falsehood necessary for thriving in society ?

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    1 hour ago, Nilsi said:

    All language is ultimately just symbols pointing to other symbols. And yes, it is arbitrary. You can pick any random syllables or phonemes, and it doesn’t fundamentally change anything. You could replace “God” with “spaghetti” or “reality” with “pineapple,” and the structure would stay the same. It’s silly to believe that using some supposedly privileged word instead of another somehow makes everything fall into place. That’s not how language works.

    But when the word reality is uttered it causes a different mental imagery than the word pineapple. Language has varying words with distinctions to what they point to.

     

    1 hour ago, Nilsi said:

    And when I say “language,” I don’t just mean words. Art, performance, architecture, objects - everything can be read as language in this sense: a field of signs you can bend, fracture, or intensify to expose what no system of representation can fully contain.

    Objects in that case empirical reality in your direct experience and merely conceptualizing about it is not the same thing as touching and object. Suppose you touch a hot stove , no matter how much one conceptualized it the reality of it being hot stove will never change unless you dismantle the stove and even then it is an empirical object.

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    44 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

    It’s not about relativity. Experience is absolute. That was never in question. The argument is about language and representation. I’ve already laid out my position clearly. Feel free to offer an actual counter-argument.

    In that case all language is just a symbol that points to something. 

    But certain words like reality , experience,actuality are more closely tied to absolute and are better representations.

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    Just now, Ramanujan said:

    stoicism is nice , but its hyped up . its over sold . a nice thing to be added to your tool box . but it is over rated

    i listen to my consious and follow it 

    one need to put in a lot of work to educate your intuition. 

    you will fuck up  a lot in the begining . but stephen covey put other things to balance the intuition , like self awareness , indipendent will ,creative imagination

     

     

    That's nice. As per Stoicism I think that it's been hyped up nowadays but original works like meditations by Marcus Aurelius etc. are still valuable.

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    Just now, Ramanujan said:

    contemplation is nice and cool . but it is not the only thing in town. 

    some of leos ideas are not battle tested enough 

    if i were you , i would rely on more battle tested ideas

    So if you are talking about battle tested ideas then have you read Stoicism? I mean the original works.

    And what's your progress reading  those books by Stephen Covey or someone else could please share.

    By the way I have read 13 books which include books from self-help and philosophy.