UnbornTao

Also agreements that facilitate co-existence in our culture. There are effective and empowering things to do both as individuals and as a group. Facts of experience, such as basic principles that are real. Gravity might be relative and not a universal phenomena, but you better not jump from a rooftop and pretend to fly (you can delude yourself you're flying just before hitting the floor). Lying has consequences, telling the truth, keeping one's word too, etc. Also there're more intelligent strategies for our collective survival and thriving. Slap a post-modernist in the face -- or anyone lost in intellect -- and ask him whether the slap was relative or not. This is for the sake of the argument, don't go around slapping people.

Adyashanti looks legit.

I don't know whether combining caffeine and modafinil is a good idea, if that's what you meant. In any case, best to try one at a time.

It happened because it happened, and you happened to be meditating. No matter the circumstances, individuals have gotten who they are. Get that. In any case, I'd make sure to clarify what that was, it doesn't sound like an enlightenment but perhaps a shift in state, a dramatic and unusual one. The effects are the effects, don't make stuff up. Meditation is aimed at healing by controlling the mind and such, its purpose is not absolute banana. Contemplation is intending to grasp what's true now. It shouldn't be confused with a method, though. It's like wanting to catch the bus: you want to be at the bus stop when the bus passes by. It is preparing yourself to get it, so to speak; being there when the show starts. That's an analogy for contemplation.

The what?

Sure, still we shouldn't consider that activity as anything more than jerking off, ultimately. More than giving a description of it to ballpark one's mind is silly. What's there to say? Unless for entertainment purposes, no use in that. Throw away what you've got of it, it gets in the way. Nothing is the best place from which to come at this matter; unfortunately we've got less than nothing -- convictions, conclusions. preferences, opinions, ideals, knowledge and assumptions. These are more ignorance.

I said certain things seem to help in the relative domain, not that there are necessarily factors involved. "Indicative" is an interpretation and a distinction made in the relative domain. Everything except direct is stuck in a world of relativity. It's analogous to waking up from a dream; whatever is done within it is done within it, and isn't the waking up. I'm being pedantic, the realization itself is what I'm referring to. The mind wants to replicate direct consciousness, inventing a way to capture it. Unfortunately this goes beyond the mind's job. Next time, you attempt to reproduce what your mind think happened before it -- the interpreted factors and conditions -- and it doesn't work. This basically means that you can't find yourself. Wherever you look is the domain of experience, it all occurs in experience. And somehow awakening, a sudden leap in consciousness, can happen. What the mind does with the realization isn't the consciousness itself. This is a tricky thing to recognize, I'm coming from intellect here. Yes; on the other hand, just a guy who got his nature. It shows the nature of the realization, and that it is possible. "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" - Dogen.

Lots of people would agree that PC gaming is better in many ways than consoles.

Isn't Edge a bloated mess? Not to mention privacy stuff. Firefox, Brave and Thorium are decent options imo. Not yet. An Arch-based distro would likely be a better option for gaming, not sure. The issue is how much tinkering is needed on Linux for some use cases. Gaming on Windows is easy to set up and use.

If you want to, yeah. Whatever works best for you.

@Thought Art Ok, thanks for sharing, keep it up.

Focus on mastering what you're interested in, whatever skill you feel drawn to. Start now and keep moving towards that.

On one of my virtual machines, Edge and Onedrive are uninstalled, and lots of services are put to Manual so that they aren't running in the background except when needed, thanks to a debloat tool. Understandably, Windows and macOS has some basic telemetry services built-in. How bad is it for Windows? Especially if Windows 12 starts getting serious with web tech and Copilot... Do you game on Mint? If so, how's that going?

Moved to Entertainment section.

Do you? A bit tired, perhaps, not worse. Or rather relieved, like after a good sneeze.

fair enough.

It's an extrapolation based on the way you come across, not everything is a belief. Being grounded is useful.

gotta need a 4090 for that.

A reasonable one. Sounds like you're coming from belief systems. We assess things to happen, getting it as itself is getting its nature. If that isn't held as possible for whatever reason, no point in looking into things.

What would you be surrendering to? Better ask what it is first.

What's his secret chilli recipe?

You don't know that, that's what I mean by assuming things. You're welcome.

@Princess Arabia To be clear, I'm not undermining the influence of belief. They can be powerful, and that's what I'm alluding to. I meant it, enjoy your beliefs, also as a way to acknowledge that that's the domain we're dealing with. What makes a difference are your actions and disposition. If belief can be powerful, imagine encountering something as is. Assumptions make that experience more difficult. In any case, you'll do what you'll do, if you want it to be powerful make sure it is indeed powerful.

Has someone compiled every new summary into an up-to-date document?

@Princess Arabia I'm just pointing out that I see most of these as superficial and lightweight. Maybe that's why they're so popular in the first place. As I'm biased towards what's real, that's what I recommend. Otherwise enjoy your beliefs.