Joseph Maynor

I’ve been noticing that people sometimes seem to be using spiritual language in different ways. Some of it feels more about exploring or understanding, while some of it feels more about settling or quieting experience. Both seem helpful in their own way, but they don’t always line up in discussion.

I love this, but I'm curious as to why an active or reactive mind is seen as a problem or bad? I see this come up a lot in these discussions here and elsewhere, and it seems to be sort of a measuring stick as to who is the most enlightened, and I'm not sure why this even matters.

Nice to see Spinoza listed on the blog. Read Part 5 of The Ethics if you can, it's amazing.

Seeing the pawn pin was the solution. Very good puzzle because psychologically we're averse to sacrificing the queen.

Very well said.

@VeganAwake Here's another example. Not my cup of tea but I actually watched this.

The issue of "you" is nuanced in my opinion. But yes, I agree with you too.

But what happens here when you're the you that you're referencing?

Fact -- a relative but concrete discernable truth. Truth -- Absolute Truth and relative truth. Relative truth includes but it not limited to facts. Belief -- holding a relative truth. Assumptions -- beliefs that the small self is more or less conscious of. Could be unconscious.

It's so hard for me to listen to that Adyashanti video. Reminds me of what I used to think many years ago.

Is the presumption here that conformity is bad?

True. I still love chess though. I spend months learning the main lines of openings.

It seems as though mathematics has a simpler and more straightforward notion of "proof" than a lot of subject areas that all mathematicians more or less adhere to.

I explored Linux. It's just really cumbersome as to the apps.

The Rupert Spira video is amazing in the sense that he is saying that. Wow! That's the first time I've heard that kind of nuance from someone who I've kinda lumped in as a neo-advaita teacher.

No. Love of Wisdom is the inverse of suffering.

Would anyone ask why if there was no meaning, nothing is happening, and there are no facts?

I'm seeing some kind of issue where the body is in the shadow. It's obsession with the mind vs. body duality.

Whatever suits you I'm glad.

@Someone here That is such an awful song.

This just is the dance lol.