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Reading this article reminded me of when i was a good Muslim as a kid LOL btw, in this article, the content that's written in English is not the same as the one written with Arabic. in English, it is written in a neutral, external spirituality-aware tone. it uses no verses from the Quran and it talks about the meaning of "tawhid" in a very broad sense. but in the one that is written with Arabic, it is like an orthodox Muslim wrote it, it uses religious language, it uses demonstrations from a lot of Quran verses, and it doesn't mention Sufism like the one written in English. it is like it is biased. it also talks about tawhid in the intellectual belief-based level. "To unit" means to believe there is one God which is Allah and to say "ash-shahada", which is “Ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh wa ashhadu anna Muhammad rasūlu Allāh” that's as far as they go. kinda weird

From what I know, the words "enlightenment" "ego death or ego dissolution" "mindfulness" or even "meditation" don't exist in Sufism, nor Arabic. the word for meditation in Arabic is "ta'ammol" which means reflection, which doesn't explain meditation at all. the vocabulary that exists is exclusive to Sufism, like a practice. for example, Sufism in Arabic is "Sufia", and the act of practicing spirituality is called "tasawuf" which is extracted from name Sufism, as an adjective. the Arabic vocabulary that exists in which you can talk about spirituality with is borrowed from other fields like psychology, or just from regular language in order to translate technical words, so if you hear someone talk about spirituality in Arabic, you'll be confused at first because what they mean by using those words isn't what the words mean.

@pursuitofspirit congrats bro

For me, this clip still holds the title of funniest clip on the internet.

First time to see Leo say this, and got me curious of how much of reality is understood

Yes i totally agree, i wasn't asking about myself, i was just wondering if that is something possible. because that's the only way i can explain early and unconscious success, the ones that succeeded in a very unconvetional way. I'm asking this because i noticed this about myself when i was young up until I'm 16, i was multitalented in arts and sports and school. and i did it all without any self reflection or intention, if you asked me back then "what are you doing and why?" it won't even register in my brain. my environment didn't descipline me, i was never desciplined up until after 16. and when i look at so many creatives that made it early, i could almost see the same pattern. and my best guess and explanation is what i said up there.

@Hojo Dead internet is here

@Yimpa it's me. wanna buy bro? i got the best deals, inspired and signed by God himself. (jk)

Drop your best one-liners that explain the benefits of Meditation and *make it click* why it's a must for anyone really but specifically for self-actualizers (non-spiritual stuff) I always struggle with meditating consistently as i take it for granted and forget why it matters, so I'm creating a list as reminders that i can read frequently. For me, these are the core ones i think of a lot: it trains the awareness muscle it trains the skill of detecting self-deception it trains the skill of "going meta" which is key for emotional regulation, resilience, perspective taking, detecting impulse, mind mastery, and a million other thing it allows and strengthens creative insight and clarity

@Cred I kinda get it but I don't want to assume, could you lower the level of abstraction? like you are talking to a kid (because i kinda am lol)

@PolyPeter yep

@Cred what do you mean by "space" in this context?

this should be number 0 on the list.

@gettoefl nice framing

@NewKidOnTheBlock True and very important. before, I tend to fill every still moment with some sort of stimulation, thinking doing nothing is painful. but now I'm learning and trying to be better at enjoy stillness. or "raw-dogging boredom" as genz call it

How deep can you explain? Cred: Yes. seriously though, this is what I was looking for but didn't know i was. amazing insight, I will be thinking about this for a while

first, you see only part of the picture (incomplete puzzle) that's why it appears that there is only right or wrong (check and cross) which represents worldview/selective attention but when you see the whole picture (complete puzzle), you realize reality is more than that and you were interpreting only part of reality. also, it could be an epistemology thing

Huge thanks Leo. when i found your content, i was in an existential crisis while living with very hardass conformist religious family, friends and environment. i felt like an outcast, constantly being judged, misunderstood and suicidal. was still discovering my unhealed shit. had no direction in life or will to do anything. Now, after only 3 years, i created the most unconventional life in a third world country while being completely independent of everyone. something i couldn't do without the understanding you share. thanks man.

interesting perspective, mine is different. it's: paradigm or human worldview VS actual reality.

She was there alone, broken. she triggered in me the savior syndrome, so i wanted to fix her, so i walked right to her and started fixing her. the connection was unreal, we are talking sparks and flow states. it took us a while, even though we were codependent, me being dependent on the challenge of fixing her and her depending on my full continuous attention, we eventually worked things out. now i deserve her love, so i plugged my thing into her and oh my god electricity was flowing literally God damn and after some time, my phone is fully charged and ready to use.

@bazera yes exactly

There's this wave of AI hate Online where lots of people are criticizing AI and calling it sloppy and useless and dumb. and accusing it of making us dumb and slow... and in my opinion, it's just dumb group think rejecting anything new. it's just a bunch of generalizations, cherry picking rants that lack depth and nuance. AI is a fucking skill, the output you get is a reflection of you. you can't just type "make me an app" and then complain how sloppy the output is. if your prompt is bellow a 1000 words, and is vague, don't expect anything great. a prompt should leave no room for the AI to guess things. and if you use it for full creativity, you'll also get sloppy stuff. AI is a tool, like any other tool we created as lazy ass humans that want to outsource anything repetitive and boring. when we got tired of washing clothes with our bare hands, we invented washing machines. and did that make us dumb or inefficient? no it made it possible to wash lots of clothes at once with no effort. people have literally reacted the same way when other tools were invented, like the calculator, the computer, the camera, google.... the point is, AI is for outsourcing mechanical tasks, not creativity. if you want to build an app, you don't outsource everything to AI, you outsource repetitive productive stuff that require little to no creativity. AI is also for navigating uncertainty by thinking with it, not letting it think for you. AI doesn't replace thinking and creativity, it amplifies it and makes it faster. think of it as "artificial leverage" rather than "artificial intelligence" here's how AI benefited my life: • makes me able to write social posts and copywriting stuff so fast and efficient, with huge volume. • helps me articulate ideas better in any style and tone. • in architecture school, i no longer need a high performing PC, because i can just design a building with basic software and the AI renders everything for me, don't even need a graphics card or big ram. • i use it as a companion for inner work. we are talking shadow work, personality tests, coaching, contemplation and more. and from my experience, it is efficient and accurate but only for guiding me towards the right direction. • makes research way faster and targeted. • it amplified my learning of technical skills. courses that teach technical stuff now are basically useless • helps me generate original insights and ideas, by discussing with it and connecting dots. • helps with feedback with any area of my life. • helps me with making technical visuals that would take me 3 hours to make on my own using Photoshop but only 15 minutes with it. • helps with scheduling, productivity, tracking. • helps with problem solving, whatever the type of teh problem is. • The ratio between productivity and creativity in my life has shifted heavily toward creativity thanks to AI.

@bazera to clarify, I'm not aware of any threads or posts on the forum talking about AI, i thought this rejection of AI is a trend and posted my opinion. also, as i said, it is a skill. the prompt is everything, you have to constrain the output so much otherwise AI will keep guessing things like context, tone, goal of the response, where to look and pull from, who it is talking to, who is it talking as... and simply believing AI is the user's responsibility, just like for any other source (book, article, video....) and hallucination is a feature of AI, not a bug, it is programmed to generate answers with certainty. notice how it will never say "i don't know, I'm not sure" so the variable here is the user's input. for example, if you are creating an animation, you don't just tell an artist "animate a guy kicking somebody in the face" because he'll draw a random generic kick. you rather tell him every detail possible, and create the first and last frame yourself (creative part) and all he does is connect those frames by drawing the ones in between (hope you get this niche example haha) same for any other intellectual or creative task. it all depends on how much you outsource to AI.

@PolyPeter thanks mate