UnbornTao

Joe Dispenza Deepak Chopra

The future has no future. Seriously though, no idea on what the future of work is going to be like.

The Power of 1% The Power of 10% How To Achieve More With Less How To Do Less with More Fuck It, It's All Meaningless Finding Your Purpose The Joy of No Purpose How to Be Still (a 340 pages manual) The Art of Joy The Joy Of Art The New Korean Way to Tidy Up

Loved Black Ops 1 and 2. Zombies mode was appealing to me. Hopefully BO6 does things reasonably well; zombies looks promising.

Sounds good!

I suspect that everyone faces similar challenges in interpersonal relationships. This is a good opportunity for you to question what this behavior is really about. Could it be an attempt to avoid getting hurt? Perhaps it’s rooted in an aversion to vulnerability? I'm painting with broad strokes here. A good question to ask oneself is: What do I assume is true of myself such that I get to show up as this person, in this particular way? Contemplate the assumptions that might lie behind the motivating factor. Keep contemplating what this pattern is about and why it occurs.

Sounds like a pipe dream.

If we ignore its nature, what are we declaring war on?

Why not grasp your own nature first, then move on to investigate others? Leave aside anything that isn't direct consciousness – which is everything.

We don't even know what life is.

"Isn't it so?"

We really love to chat away.

@Keryo Koffa cool!

Unless the one who intends, even though appearing as solid and real, is a convenient construction. If we consider intention and its components, it might be able to arise with no self behind it. But then again, I think we're taking intention and identity differently. @Salvijus OK, I just read the rest of your posts.

It's something other than a simple communication with some other purpose. A state is being referred to. Doesn't sound like an enlightenment experience, and there is no content when it comes to this.

Trying to shoehorn that Chopra book?

These acts don't mean much in my view. Like changing shirts.

What is prior to interpretation?

Another take: self and not-self are building blocks of our current experience, yet, in the end, they might not be existentially true. Even though they appear solid and as occurring, there was no subject or self behind actions in the first place. This is still overly simplistic, suitable for a forum post. I guess this would take us into the essence and origin of both self and instinct which are tricky subjects. Grasping these dynamics for real is a different beast.

I wouldn't project emotions on animals except perhaps certain apes, like us! Instinct may be a rudimentary act that can exist without self--it already does. Your body, for example, doesn't need a sense of self for it to function. However, since we identify with or as our bodies, we say we do stuff. Again, what did we have as babies? What was our experience like? Not much fear, perhaps none. I doubt we had an identity developed at that point and yet we did stuff, pretty basic, but it was done. Neither were we aware of "threat" or "benefit." Why don't we have any memory of that period? Identity, ego, and self are not the same. What are they? And what is instinct? Nisargadatta was a heavy smoker, Alan Watts and Chogyam were alcoholics, Osho had problematic personality traits, enlightened Japanese warriors have killed people in the past, etc. We're talking about two different domains here, the absolute and the relative domain--relationship. Access to one doesn't necessarily endow you with knowledge of the other even though it might facilitate it.

That's up for grabs. At some point, rumors and intellect have to be set aside so that a direct encounter is sought after. Direct is being in the same location as the subject being addressed, to speak metaphorically. Yeah

@Breakingthewall then I would describe it clearly as what it is. Why add fuss and so much embellishments? This only lends itself to more fantasizing.

Hey, no insulting. Not even yourself.

@Wizardking Our Inner Ape The Psychology of Money Laws of Human Nature by Greene (loong) The Path of Least Resistance or Your Life As Art by Fritz. This latter one may not be available as audiobook, though. Freedom from the Known by Krishnamurti. Some suggestions.

@Breakingthewall The bottom line is, where is the clarity regarding the presumed direct consciousness? What I hear is fantastical rhetoric and too much this and that, intellect, experience and state. Hey, why not revisit someone like Ramana afresh?