UnbornTao

"Ugh, so much unconsciousness, corruption, and drama. Where are Goodness and Love, guys?" *disappears into the rainbow. 🌈

I honestly think the discussion and confrontation are way more fruitful for people than not having it. If you don't like the question at the source of the discussion as applied to this place, ask yourself why that is.

You edited it, read above. Did you learn to admit your failure? Start doing that yourself. If you cannot learn to admit whenever you're plain wrong after several years, you're fooling yourself about the class you're in.

It is certainly your platform, and you didn't listen to him much, to be frank. You did your Tier 2 moves of spiritually ignoring him with the usual mechanisms. Why do you pretend that your pretext for banning him is true? He was probably the most rigorous and intellectually open-minded user here. He could run circles around you and everyone else. Many of your responses boiled down to "you don't know what you're talking about™," and similar. Whenever you mention open- or closed-mindedness, I like to pay attention to the subtext of how those terms are used. My assessment is that, usually, to put it naively, they are based on your intuition of whether you are believed - or not. You're not going to like that you do the same thing - that of being "closed-minded." It just takes the form of a couched, spiritual, condescending Actualized veneer.

I don't know, Rick. -- You guys are really hung up on that one forum post. It was a hasty post that I regret making. I share raw, personal, aspirational stuff on this forum sometimes. I am sometimes eager so share a new thing I just discovered or am working on. I do get things wrong sometimes. Especially in a forum post. My standards for rigor in a forum post is much lower than a video, blog, or course. I don't even consider my forum posts to be my official body of work. I use this forum to think through my newest ideas out loud. This forum serves as a sounding-board for my ideas. Not all ideas survive. -- You began to actually admit your failure above to a degree, and then somehow reverted to the same defense mechanisms. And now you retroactively emotionally protect your self-image if people start developing some discernment. For some reason, you insist on wanting to appear special. It's usually made through future promises, too.

You know, @zurew could just as easily said the same about you. And he did. And the closed-mindedness accusation is a pretext in this case.

That could be true, but I don't know.

Definitely. It's a critical distinción to make. It could be boiled down to, at the risk of oversimplifying it, 'theory' vs 'practice.' 'The map is not the territory' - again, we hear this and in our minds we think we know what it is, but then there's what happens in actuality, which is usually different and inconsistent with our conception of things.

Essentially, what @Ero said.

Thank you. Semi-true.

@Tistepiste It seems like you're doing fine with your challenges. You recognized the potential negative effects of intense practice and learned from them, so props for that.

You know what? 4 warning points for that. No wait...

They were too spineless, desperate to defend their advantage.

@Human Mint Ché, qué bueno que viniste. Finalissima.