UnbornTao

Where did you hear about it? It originally wasn't an experience of yours. You wouldn't have come up with the name and associated ideas themselves if you hadn't heard of it. It is an added interpretation after the event, whatever it is. This may or does occur with any addition that we generate onto "it". You experience something, whose nature is by the way unknown, and then you reference and superimpose onto it hearsay that you've come to adopt. Without reference to belief systems the condition, or what's experienced, is whatever it itself is, your interpretation about it can change and is likely distorted by your fears, desires, biases, beliefs, preferences, worldview. Without the interpretation, what you've got is an intense bodily state, likely precipitated by the concepts you hold about the belief system. If you were to experience your body a certain way that is unusual for you, you'd want to interpret that experience according to the concepts you've heard about it, adding a particular meaning that validates your world-concept.

Nice.

My bad, I meant to mention @aurum.

@aurum whole, unbroken, complete, integral. A vase is either whole or it has a crack, at which point it is no longer complete. Its function is already diminished or broken. A perspective is partial. How do you define whole?

Then it isn't whole nor complete by definition.

Cute.

I thought about that, too.

Nice, thanks. Do your eyes stop working? It is independent from experience and already the case.

No.

What is concept?

The purpose of this journal is to share ramblings, questions, perspectives and insights on life and personal empowerment in order to deepen my own understanding, improve my communication skills, and hopefully assist others in seeing something in a new light. I hope the content is inspiring.

If you hold yourself as fundamentally unworthy or unlovable, you may only want to relate to people who don't love you, and whenever they do, you unconsciously sabotage the relationship. What is that about?

"What you think, you become." - Gautama. I'm not talking about a belief system. Leaving the fantasizing aside, there might be a principle at play here. As a small example, pay attention whenever you start the day angry, distracted, etc., and carry that out throughout the day. What consequences does this disposition have on your experience? What results does it produce in your life and those of others? Now, don't limit the communication to the example.

Some would say blue. I myself don't pay much attention to that. The good samurais lived according to powerful principles such as discipline, honor and integrity. They lived with the presence of death. There's much to learn from that. A model is a model while living with integrity and the reality of death kicks your ass. Loving the show so far.

Banana. Don't extrapolate.

Don't know if you're being sarcastic or not. It can be called however you want, really. I mean it as a profound consciousness of one's nature.

Contemplate why you feel this way.

And explanations are just that.

- Helen Keller, The World I live in (1910).

Is he really enlightened?

The guy's intellectually brilliant. I wonder how much of what he talks about he's directly conscious of.

GTA VI? None at all. I don't think so.

Physical?

Great books I prefer to read physical. Makes the experience more real and grounded for me. If I'm serious about studying a book, physical wins.

Stop thinking. Okay try again.