UnbornTao

Happiness may not be circumstantially-derived, after all. You're still holding "winning" -- survival -- as happiness. Whenever things go your way, you say you're happy. When they're not, you say you aren't. I finally got the PS5 - yeah! I'm happy. I couldn't get the Ferrari - oh I'm so depressed. In any case, whenever the condition ceases to exist you're back to chasing the cheese -- of survival. Happiness may be a function of your nature... But hey, who knows? Maybe happiness is not what we think it is.

What is your experience of suffering when it is embraced, turned into, and felt completely?

What would your motivation be for acting that way? I don't see how that would be helpful, except perhaps done occasionally in very specific situations. But it would have to affect another positively, not done for yourself. Perhaps you adopt the role of facilitator and see that another is stuck in a perspective, so you take a stab at his attachments so that he eases up on it.

Fair enough.

Could come up with a lame formula for both cases. I see potential here. I'mfucked-hate: when a human struggles both to get laid and to get paid.

OK.

Know what? When? Tell me what you are.

Fair enough, thank you. Keep up the good work.

It basically means stop lying to yourself about what you "know", if that's the case. Come on, it's not hard to see, specially with this "absolute" business.

@vibv Just a way to ground the conversation as I get the sense that what you say is not your experience.

I want them to make me the best omelet ever.

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Agree on what? Not looking for agreement or disagreement necessarily. Those are irrelevant. What you should be doing is listening, paying attention to what a teacher communicates, and from there decide whether you want to study his or her work deeper or not. The validity of a communication stands on its own. I ignore the alien consciousness stuff because I've got no interest in it and have no idea what it is really. The "classic" work is already hard by itself. Neither do I share the claim that psychedelics can produce consciousness/awakening.

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It can make it more difficult but at the same time your nature is already the case, enlightenment is possible no matter the circumstances.

@tuku747 Why are you randomly posting videos? Did your account get hacked?

We're talking about "existential" things and the human condition - perception, emotions, mind, experience, life, you, communication, another. We can perhaps trust that it is possible based on what others have said. In this case, it would be a matter of looking into what gender and sex are for themselves, their nature. People will live their lives however they want. The example is superficial. You're confused about the authenticity part. Don't overthink it. Tell the truth, mainly to yourself. For that, first you have to get clear on your experience. You know whenever something's not really authentic in your experience. It "stinks". Then be clear on that and drop the pretense. Acting as if you know what something is while you actually don't know -- that's a form of pretension. Acting tough, adopting a character that misrepresents your internal state, concealing one's feeling of incapacity in life, are others examples. The principle is profound. I recommend you read Radical Honesty by Blanton.

I would first look towards my own lack of understanding before focusing on another's. I'm sure there's a cute saying in the bible about this point. Is it the eye that's covered or something like that? Update: This is the one, by Matthew:

In order to move in the direction of what's true -- in every way, honesty is the main practice. So I would endorse authenticity and not pretense. He's got good stuff. Perhaps I should have clarified: it is communication coming from an individual that for me is hearsay until personally validated in experinece.

More like my own investigations, and then some hearsay by Krishnamurti.

It's the same domain, believing and disbelieving. Adopting beliefs isn't helpful when it comes to an open inquiry. Better to ask yourself what you are really conscious of, and to remind oneself not to pretend.

It's inventing stuff that covers up one's fundamental ignorance. Why not generate wonder instead? If you don't know, that's the best place to start as wonder naturally arises from that place. No reason to question if in your mind you consider you already know the "answers."

Read, respond and post some considerations and silliness of my own.

One is unnecessary and disempowering to an open investigation, which is what contemplation is about.