AtmanIsBrahman

You won’t get a single definition here because there are different ways of understanding spirituality. There is being conscious, which refers to being aware (they’re synonyms), and consciousness can increase or decrease. A human is more conscious than a dog, which is more conscious than an ant. In spirituality, you try to become more conscious so that your experience of life goes beyond that of most humans. The word Consciousness is more than just a creature’s perception, it is the fundamental nature of reality. It is called Consciousness because reality is not a physical system but an infinite, ever changing singularity.

Tricky puzzle. The main line I calculated is e4 f3 Qg5 g4 Qd2 (Qe3+ might also work, couldn’t find a difference) Qxe4+ Kh6 g6. White is out of checks and back will get mated

True, this is a more resilient line for black. I think white wins with Qa6 (threatening Qc8) Ne7 Ba3. White loses at least a piece.

D7 Qa8 Qa3, black has to move the queen. Qb8 is probably best because Qa7 is a threat, but Qa7 anyway and white wins.

What do you mean by red being absolutely red for everyone? Obviously people experience colors differently, not to mention other species entirely. I’m sure you’ve anticipated that objection, so are you hinting at some kind of absolute noumena that exist outside of perception (at least of an individual organism)? Also, isn’t everything a quality? So everything is absolutely itself. But I don’t see how this makes qualities timeless. I would say that absolute reality is timeless, but individual qualities like the color red can come and go.

How does that not contradict solipsism?

Absolute Beauty has been mentioned many times on the blog/forum, but there's no video about it. Maybe it could be connected with Love, Truth, Consciousness. Practically, you could give advice on how to see more beauty and even create it yourself. As a bonus the video could cover how art works as an expression of beauty, and how beauty can be found outside of art in everyday things too. For example, even a car crash is Absolute Beauty (according to my understanding). @Leo Gura

The point of this puzzle is recognizing your opponent's resources. You have to see that after black takes the bishop, white has bishop to c2, creating a checkmate threat while unveiling an attack on the queen from the rook. Here you have to see that Qg5+ is possible, saving the queen and forcing white to respond to the check. After that, black has many ways to stop white's checkmate threat. Without seeing bishop to c2 and Qg5+, you could easily be making a blunder by taking the bishop.

I solved it but I'm not going to spoil it

They didn’t bother to learn the patterns and played on autopilot.

An interesting question is, can you apply consciousness work to chess? It seems like you can, but I think the reason the top players are good and unconscious of how they got good is because chess is just about building up experience. You get more and more patterns in your mental inventory, learn how to apply them through experience, and eventually get good. Some talent doesn't hurt either. A chess master is someone with enormous experience in chess, and some talent.

Technically that's the hard way though. Love from others is never guaranteed, but there's a endless supply from yourself.

Thinking your career is "good" Having a dream job (unless it's something highly innovative) Academic writing Citations Christmas The way people nod and smile while talking

A big potential trap I see is calling anything you don’t like conformity. It’s tempting as an introvert to say that extroverts are just doing conformity, but maybe it isn’t conformity to them because it’s their natural personality. Still, some personalities really are less conformist than others. So if you’re a truth seeker type you’re naturally less conformist than others. Bit this creates an interesting problem, because if it’s natural for extroverted people to be extroverted, then should they really try to act non-conformist? For them it wouldn’t be authentic. Maybe conformity is largely out of your control 🤷‍♂️

Is conformity the same as survival or is it different? Most conformity is just baked into survival. You do conformist things to fit in with society and survive subtly. I’m trying to understand what you’re getting at @Leo Gura, beyond just examples. Is this one of those subtle distinctions where you view the same thing through different lenses, like maturity=wisdom? I understand conformity as another way of seeing survival, with an emphasis on lack of autonomy/originality.