Joseph Maynor

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.

This just is the dance.

I see it as more of a dance. @James123 is a good guy. But if you enter the dance, you gotta expect to.

It's just something I noticed with neo-advaita. It seems like a huge game of hide-and-seek with the semantic games. Nothing wrong with that I suppose.

Linux can be cumbersome, but at least it forces you to learn how to code and get away from Microsoft. But in many ways Linux is not ready for prime time.

So any expression is okay to be here, but any naming is an erroneous thought (due to belief in right and wrong), which doesn't exist?

But this reaction seems to reveal something too. Generally speaking, people don't enjoy being told they are wrong.

There's real analysis and complex analysis as subjects today. Real analysis concerns real numbers and complex analysis concerns imaginary numbers. This is fascinating! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_analysis

I actually distinguish neo-advaita from nonduality. Most people think they are the same or very similar. Nonduality is way more profound.

Does this derive from neti neti somehow? This there is no ... [blah blah blah]? E.g., There is no you, there is no separate self, nothing is happening, there are no facts, there are no thoughts, there is no shame, there is no shaming, there is no right and wrong, there is no separate self, there is no true and false, there are no words, there is no meaning, there is no me. But ... there is feeling. That's interesting to me (but there's no me). There are no thoughts, but thoughts are always bad. Actually my thoughts are good, yours are bad, but nothing is happening here too. If you push me on this I will say you are averse to what is being said. And feeling good is the only metric so I need to always work myself up the emotional scale (but there is no myself paradoxically too).