Joseph Maynor

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).

Good to see you on here man!

Interesting. So what you are proposing is that I am a thought in some sense entirely? But how would you know this? It would seem as though this would need to start with you first. You would have to know you are a thought, and then the issue would become moot at that time.

@Mellowmarsh Hey. I'm curious about how you feel about the mentality of "there is no . . . .(blah blah blah)".

Who or what is losing anything and everything?

I love using humor now in situations where people are all serious about trying to one-up each other. This could be used for anyone, including family. It's a paradigm shift of: we're friends first and the expectation is that we will disagree with each other. Many people have this paradigm reversed: We can only be friends if we agree with each other, or you have to agree with me, or vice versa. No we're friends first, and it is assumed that we will disagree with each other. It's really a way of elevating Love and practicing it. So, now I apply this to basically everyone and it calls on using humor somewhat strategically, which brings people together. This can be overdone too though, but it's fun to experiment with. It's rewarding and different to be able to relate with people who you have little in common with, especially if you're kind of a top-heavy person who is stuck in your own mind a lot. You want the world to mirror your mind without realizing that, and that is controlling and limiting when it comes to relationships, openness, and Love. Many people I see on here already do this which is amazing to me to see because it took me a long time to get it.

Try to locate the groupthink in mathematics.