Carl-Richard

Just work for me for free and set up a patreon account and take some sponsors lol.

Meditation is about discovering that you're not in control and never will be, and in giving up the need to control, you actually gain control. If there is nothing you need to control, then you're actually fully in control. The idea that you have to do something in order to gain control already assumes that you're not already in control. There is nothing you need to do: you're in control.

It's there... in the dark, where it belongs.

That's not the point. If you put something in the dark, you won't see it.

That's always the narrative, and it doesn't really matter.

Will you transcend orange and work for me for free?

How many non-dualists does it take to change a lightbulb? One. How many neo-advaitans does it take to change a lightbulb? Nobody.

During a podcast he had with his previous meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein, he specifically said that he doesn't consider himself enlightened. He has talked about experiencing temporary states of no self. As far as I know, he has never claimed that he is in a perpetual state, and his trip reports strongly indicate that fact. I would really like to know where you got that information from.

Uhm no. When did he say that?

The slippery slope argument would be more valid if there was no incentive to maintain a relatively high degree of free speech. It's a social media platform, a place where you come to speak your mind. If they become too strict, people wouldn't want to use it anymore. The restrictions have to be highly selective. The amount of people who are affected by this ban is negligible.

The tests are kinda meh. Just read about the cognitive functions and see if it resonnates with you. I keep landing on INFP and INTP on the tests.

Not really a "resource", but this video is sooo INTP:

That picture makes me think about how it's technically possible to fight excessive Blue (fascism, anti-LGBTQ) from below, namely from Red. I mean, did the ancient romans have anything against homosexuality? Though it has to be said that organizing under a shared identity and fighting for group rights is afterall a collectivist endevour, and the question then becomes: is it possible from purple/red? Maybe the preconception of LGBTQ rights belonging to or being centered around Green is an eurocentric one haha. EDIT: Certainly, the concept of "individual rights" is a post-blue/orange concept... what was I thinking? Then to modify that question again: is it possible to organize a coordinated fight against oppressive Blue forces from purple/red based on group identity without expecting/knowing about group rights? Maybe group identity is a foreign concept aswell, because it assumes the ability to show concern for other people than your own immediate tribe (an "extended tribe"), and purple/red may only recognize their own immediate tribe as being important.

@DocWatts 1:22:00 "I'm living and dying consciously, simultaneously." That is powerful.

There is a point to be made that there is a fine line between overindulgence and surpression; both in excess are negative. In my own experience, trying nofap for a while is beneficial if you're suspecting that you're fapping too often and that it leads to negative symptoms (apathy, brain fog, low energy). It made me reset my habits and now I fap less frequently than I used to, and my body and mind is more functional. I believe that the habit only becomes a problem if it's excessively triggered by mental urges rather than physical urges. The problem with going too far in the other direction is that it surpresses natural energies in your body and it makes you more inclined to surpress other types of emotions, which can make you feel disembodied, numb, uptight and uneasy. The cliche of finding a balance is crucial. Your body is always trying to find a balance and therefore you need to learn to listen to your body. Your body tells you what it wants and what it needs. Fapping is not a problem if it happens naturally as a bodily phenomena. It only becomes a problem if it happens because of a mental attachment.

@Husseinisdoingfine God help the poor nofap enthusiast who stumbles across this forum section

Here, I can put it in a way that doesn't include scary colors: there are many different styles of conversation, different ways of formulating and responding to arguments, and this conversation is following a certain pattern with respect to that fact . It's not so much about the content as it's about the structure of the lines of reasoning and ways of expression.

That is a redundant sentence. You are experiencing a sentence that I produced. Even that is redundant, because I am you and you are me. Experience is experiencing a sentence. That too is redundant, because experiencing IS experience. Experience is. But then again, that is only a description of experience, not experience itself.

You are not a body. You are not a brain. These objects arise within experience. Are you experiencing a brain while reading this sentence? No. You're experiencing a sentence. There; you just experienced something without a brain.

You can observe the brain stopping, but you cannot observe experience stopping. Experience is constant. You cannot experience not having an experience.

So we don't need a communist revolution, but a hippie revolution. Hmm... where is Tim Leary?

You can't have any brains without experience. In order to know when the brain stops functioning, you need experience.

34:14 - 45:36 This documentary is an internet gem.

I have no idea what is going on tbh.

@Member It's hypnotic