UnbornTao

We haven't accessed insight into what happiness is.

Maybe, and this doesn't say much about its nature. An answer is an answer, after all. Insight into it is the goal. To contemplate it, we might imagine the following: We are Neanderthals without "language." What has to occur so that that context or invention takes place? What is the distinction of language itself? What occurs in one's experience that allows for language to show up? How does it really come about? Some questions.

So, what is happiness? I assert we don't know what it really is.

We could try to take a look at what language is, contemplate it, not assuming that we know what it is already-

Where did you hear about it? It originally wasn't an experience of yours. You wouldn't have come up with that particular concept/name and the associated ideas if you hadn't heard of them from an outside source. This is important to acknowledge. Without the obviously superficial interpretation of the belief system: What's experienced? Perhaps an intense bodily state, likely precipitated by your cosmology relative to this matter, adding a particular meaning, trying to reinforce your world-concept. You say that you experience something –whose nature is by the way unknown– and then hearsay is superimposed onto it. Without reference to belief, what's experienced is still up for grabs; your interpretation of it is filtered through the lens of your biases, beliefs, desires and worldview. So, is it real? I don't know. Is it relevant?

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 was thinking about that, too.

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

No.

"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?

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.

Is he actually "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.