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[How to be wise]

There’s a possibility that they won’t release the episode. They might have realised in the editing process that this is too controversial for their audience. 

[UnbornTao]

19 hours ago, Human Mint said:

They exist nonetheless, they're something. An illusion, because they captivate you like temptation.

It takes a lot of effort to position yourself away from their gravitational force even for a moment.

That can be true when it comes to certain forms of programming, but belief doesn't exist objectively or on its own, except as a mental activity held by you. Seeing it as a belief is the first step. The deeply buried ones are seen by us as intrinsic aspects of reality, so they're trickier to unearth.

A good (and challenging) practice to take up is to identify each and every belief you hold and drop them all, aside from the functional ones. But seeing something as a belief and not as a reality tends to immediately undermine our certainty in it. 

Edited February 6 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

@Davino The 'what is fake spirituality' video reminded me of our conversation. 

[Davino]

On 13/2/2026 at 4:46 PM, UnbornTao said:

The 'what is fake spirituality' video reminded me of our conversation. 

Why?

[UnbornTao]

8 minutes ago, Davino said:

Why?

Mainly due to your failure to discern between charlatans and a real teacher.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

29 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Mainly due to your failure to discern between charlatans and a real teacher.

'Real' teacher? You should probably define what you mean by that for @Davino, prior to assigning him your language.

It might be useful to ask who & what we take from each teacher. Assumptions and inferences.

Edited 9 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Natasha Tori Maru]

I think we should keep discussions like this around content and not competence. 

We cannot keep approaching topics as if things are self-evident. Assuming error without demonstration or that discernment is simple or objective. 

Lines of questioning or statements that place us in an elevated positioning of 'knowing which is which', or positioning ourselves as the 'competent discerner' are sly egoic manipulations of status. 

Goes for everyone on this forum. I have seen Leo do this. I am guilty of this. It goes against open inquiry. Against truth. Integrity. And above all, steers away from unity. We should be attempting to breach the barriers between us all. Barriers that are illusory. This is the only way to truly understand what we are each speaking about. Anything else is ego. 

Unity, infinity. The collapse of all distinction. Love 🤍

 

[Joshe]

Sometimes the feedback is correct but the tact isn't.

I've asked myself: why care what a person across the internet thinks or gets wrong? 100% it's mostly entertainment + ego. In the grand scheme, it makes no fuck. But I'll forget about the grand scheme sometime within the next few days. Integration is continuous but slow.