Joseph Maynor

Wabi-sabi in Japanese aesthetics is the appreciation of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete." So different from our western notion of aesthetics which seems to favor symmetry, perfection, flawlessness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

I'm seeing a way to trap white's queen but not a capture it as follows: black plays bishop e7 which forces white's queen to move to b8 or a8, and then black takes the pawn on b5 with the rook.

I agree. Brilliant insight.

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.