UnbornTao

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  1. As far as I know, it depends on your prompts as much as it does on the service itself. You'll have to generate highly specific prompts so that it does what you want it to do. A general command such as "polish up this manuscript in this or that way" might not yield the best results. Also, likely not in one shot. Not sure about what limits it has regarding amount of content. You might have to go a chapter at a time. In any case, there's always the free versions of these chatbots to test out.
  2. Allow them to be there -- the confusion and frustration -- while continuing to pursue the subject of your contemplation. It is useful to remind yourself why you are inquiring in the first place -- what you want to grasp -- , so you can remain mindful of anything that isn’t a direct apprehension. It’s fine if you get distracted. Strictly following a ritualized practice isn't needed either, as you can question while going about your day. Wonder: “Who is the one experiencing frustration?” -- or anything else, for that matter. And keep your attention on the experience of yourself. Sometimes, you can simply shift to another activity -- exercising, pursuing a hobby, taking a walk, meditating, playing, etc. -- to help your mind refocus and calm down.
  3. Survival happens and will continue until death. Survival is life. These are two different pursuits, as you implied. But consider: individuals throughout history have had much worse conditions than yours, and they didn't wait for the right circumstances before they started their search. Some of them even gave up luxurious lives in order to seek out what's true. Circumstances are secondary. It's true that either way, most people do not care at all. Why impose artificial requisites on the act of questioning? Nothing is preventing you from looking into your own experience as it is now.
  4. Process is itself indirect. Perception is done via the senses, as you say. It is composed of steps and is carried out over a period of time, whether lightning-fast or slow. Perhaps it'd be better to call what you're alluding to "personal experience." As a perception, it would be completely meaningless in itself (sensory input) without the activities of interpretation and cognition, which determine how one will relate to the "thing" perceived and what it means to oneself -- whether one finds it appealing or threatening, resists it or embraces it, and so on. What you said regarding language and assumptions, maybe. We'd also have to look into those. "What is it?" In this case, it would lead to comprehending what meaning is, whatever that turns out to be. To be clear, none of this suggests that you stop doing functional and healthy stuff! That is a different matter. That was just a rhetorical device. "Figuring out" this absolute/relative subject isn't going to cut it; it is a matter of "enlightenment." So, that's the goal. What do you mean by "Deconstructing every notion as an uninherent assumption"? Again, the work needs to be done, not just safely thought about from a distance. Extrapolating and repeating what one has heard or believes in is not the same as personally investigating things. You still consider meaninglessness to be depressive and negative, and so seem to react defensively when that is brought up. Yet this is a function of what you presume it has to imply, not of (comprehending) what it is. Regarding this direct experience/absolute consciousness business: Mu. You can actually get it yourself, just remember to come back and tell us once you do.
  5. "Week’s over. See you next Monday." - Human brain
  6. @Letho @AION zen sticks for you two.
  7. In reality what's being defended is one's ignorance, not because of the content itself but because it is something believed! Whatever it is. Better to acknowledge that, and move on.
  8. Sorry if it came out as a personal attack. In any case, it's true -- our culturally-shared obsession with ourselves doesn't help.
  9. Then, perhaps, we'd be mainly talking about sensation rather than feeling, although of course the latter would likely also occur. Presumably, other animal species would sense it, yet the various feelings that we, as humans, might associate with the sensation -- such as irritation, worry, despair, or being startled -- might not be produced by the animal. That might give us a hint as to the origin of feeling. How can we clearly differentiate between sense, sensation, feeling, reaction, emotion, and state? Something to look into.
  10. Now, could feeling itself be based on a thought, just of a different kind than what's usually meant by "thought"?
  11. I liked the original trilogy, but not so much the recent ones. What made the original one so well-received, apart from that? The rest aren't considered as good. The element of terror was likely an important factor.