UnbornTao

Happy new year guys! Love

@The Crocodile Your mind is all over the place, doing weird stuff. So, breathe, relax. You seem to resist what's mundane and may want to appear unconventional.

Relax, breathe from your belly.

Install Linux Mint, depending on your needs and hardware. I use a tool call WinUtil which debloats stuff, optimizes services, etc. Try Brave, if that improves your browser situation.

That one's fine, and it was not the post he/she was warned for.

@Breakingthewall It's fine, not a problem.

I do not.

You misunderstand. What I'm saying is that the koan is a questioning, an opening, and the tendency of mind to provide an array of ready-made answers seals off that possibility. Make of that what you will.

Any answer would be worthless. You can definitely contemplate and dialogue, that is encouraged.

147 hours played later: [a nerdy explanation of every aspect of the lore, plot, and characters.]

@Breakingthewall You are missing the point of koans. They're not meant to be answered but rather to precipitate breakthroughs. You seem to be filled to the brim with "knowing" and might as well leave some space for contemplation.

I've never been particularly interested in Souls-like games or medieval themes in general, but I'm going to give Skyrim and Elden Ring a try. They seem fun.

@gettoefl Now, what's true? Not what's concluded, wished for, assumed, experienced. What works is a different pursuit.

Nice. Probably one the best laptops out there.

@gettoefl Getting philosophical doesn't make it real for oneself. Tell the truth about what you experience, it's fine. Acknowledging we have no idea is more productive, and from that investigation can occur.

I have no idea how I would start making this decision. Visiting a bunch of cities first, perhaps. Austin sounds like a good place, though.

Why adopt such a disposition? It's just what's true now, no negative or positive.

Truth is what is now, about any matter--unveiling it is the goal. You may be overlooking that freedom and bliss often come about as side effects of increased consciousness. Pursuing them by themselves hinders an open investigation, which is essential in this work. It is easy to fool oneself--what you might be after is a better experience or an ideal. Also, one can't free himself from something he's not conscious of, ergo what's true about it. Using an extremely inaccurate metaphor, you are asking for intimacy and emotional closeness while foregoing communication. It seems the former can't occur without the latter.

Humanity in a nutshell.

It's self-consciousness, not awareness, what you seem to be describing.

Clarify the purpose of your actions. Why am I doing this? What is its function, and is it meeting it? How much of what you do at any given time is on purpose, and how often does it fail to align with that purpose? Notice the discrepancies between the two.

Politics

What's meant is that what you are is and "has always been" the case now; what's required is unveiling that.