Carl-Richard

Teamwork mastery

This topic is a ticking time bomb ?

Hahahaha it's the "do-nothing" method. You can never do it properly, because it cannot be done ? This is serious advice btw. The do-nothing method is about accepting the fact that you're helplessly "doing" all the time and that that's totally fine. In any meditation technique, can you just accept that you're completely garbage at it and that it's completely OK? If you can get there, the job is done and the technique does itself.

If your focus is outwards on other people or things and not inwards towards yourself and your own ideas, you will tend to focus on what already is and not what could be (essentially the N/S dichotomy in MBTI).

Of course you will feel like shit if you go for 2 months and then suddenly fap 3-5 times in a short span of time. You need to find a golden middle way because this is obviously not healthy. I've been at both extremes of the spectrum, and I have no energy issues from fapping once every 2-3 days (that's the optimal frequency for me). I also feel way calmer mentally and much smoother physically than when I did 6 months nofap. Fapping isn't negative at all.

Non-judgement is a judgement

@kinesin I am helping.

You have serious emotional issues.

Triquetra (Celtic Knot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra

Describe your experience of cessation.

No.

Once you see that meaning is something you construct, there is nothing that stops you from constructing the best meaning you can.

It's a symptomatic solution, like giving anxiolytics to a patient having a panic attack. The symptom is a certain emotional state (sexual urges, panic attack), and the solution is the alleviation of that state (porn, medication). It's not an ideal solution (there are potential side effects and it doesn't fix the root causes), but it's still a valid preventative measure.

Do physically healthy things and don't be afraid of your emotions.

You need passion, and that's pretty much it.

If you feel tired when meditating, it simply means you didn't sleep enough or that you're meditating on a full stomach. Get enough sleep and meditate 2-3hrs after a meal. You should also not meditate for longer periods at night as it will make you less tired.

1960s is not comparable to early 1800s though. Back in those days, things like Women's rights, environmentalism and anti-capitalism basically didn't exist. Again, romanticism misses that crucial social, meta-systematic and collectivist component which distinguishes Green from Orange, which is why I did the analysis on the level of facets.

Sure. It's natural for the higher stages to include aspects of the lower stages, but Green additionally has some more refined aspects like sensitivity, compassion, social awareness, which all ties into collectivism. What are hippies protesting against and on what grounds? Is protesting really care-free?

It's a bit simplistic to assume that just because a movement is reacting to one facet of Orange (cognitive facet) that it must necessarily belong to a different stage. Stages have different facets, and every stage has an emotional facet, and you can put different emphasis on different facets. Without emotions, you'll have no motives or drives, and that's also true for a heavily cognitive Orange. Søren Kierkegaard referred to the romanticist movement when describing the aestheticist stage of his existentialist model, which is an individualistic, hedonistic, disinhibited and care-free stage. These are Red or Orange motives/drives. The reason it's not Red is because the movement happened in a world with a strong Blue-Orange cultural baseline, and the reason it's not Green is because it misses the overt collectivist component (and dare I say ethical and emotional component – social justice and sensitivity). But what about the focus on nature? Is that not Green? Not really. It's only the cognitive component of Orange that demystifies nature, and you can react to that component from any stage, including from within Orange. Green also emphasizes nature from more than just an aesthetic/emotional perspective. Don't forget that Green also has a cognitive component which is pro-nature (meta-systematic, quasi-holism, worldcentric collectivism; sees larger interconnectedness). To summarize, I'm arguing that the romanticist movement is best explained as a movement that emphasized the emotional facet of Orange and neglected the cognitive facet. Early 18th century was also not a sufficiently developed time for widespread Green to appear. That takes centuries of Orange.

Karma is like Newton's second law of motion: every action has an opposite and equal reaction. It has nothing to do with punishment and it's not just that actions have consequences. You can look at it from a cognitive perspective: if you consistently act in disharmonious ways, you'll build internal structures (schemas and heuristics; automatic ways which you interpret the world) that will further facilitate such behavior in the future, and those actions will have consequences. If you act like an asshole in some aspect in your life, that will sooner or later affect you in some other aspect of your life. Shedding karma is about acting harmoniously with the evershifting nature of reality. It's in a way the opposite of egoic survival.

SD is an intellectual pursuit. I have nothing against intuition, but you generally approach these things with deliberate thought, especially when somebody is asking for clarification.

But why? ?

@k0ver What you're critiquing has more to do with models in general than SD itself. Models are supposed to categorize, idealize and not least simplify. There are possibilities of othering/demonization with any categorization of psychological qualities, not just developmental levels (examples like diagnoses of mental illnesses, personality disorders etc.), but also any framework in general (ideological, political, ethical, religious etc.) . These flaws are baked in the human psyche more than anything, but that shouldn't stop us from using these powerful tools. It's not the gun that shoots - it's the person. If you end up misusing SD, that's on you. If SD predicts anything, it's that these problems will be solved by people working on themselves.

Good example of relativity.