Playing with Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

 

[UnbornTao]

On 10/7/2024 at 10:02 PM, UnbornTao said:

Thanks, DALLE

It omitted some important details but it is manageable now!

Edited May 27 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Teach the material, even if only to yourself, and notice how much of it arises from personal experience versus intellect. Use this as a practice to make the work real for you.

Edited Sunday at 11:15 PM by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Quote

A fox or a hawk cannot escape the results of being a fox or a hawk. No man can escape the results of being the kind of person he is. Anger is its own punishment. Envy is its own burden. Deceit is its own pain.

-- Vernon Howard.

 

Edited May 30 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Distinctions that are quite tricky to make: Consciousness, on the one hand, and awareness, on the other.

Edited April 14 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

[Yimpa]

 

[UnbornTao]

@Yimpa Nahh you're perfectly fine. 

[Sugarcoat]

On 2025-04-13 at 4:28 PM, UnbornTao said:

Distinctions that are quite tricky to make: Consciousness, on the one hand, and awareness, on the other.

Is there a difference?

[UnbornTao]

On 4/26/2025 at 10:26 PM, Sugarcoat said:

Is there a difference?

That's precisely the distinction we need to make, or see. Intellectually, I could say that awareness is relative and may be a function of experience or the body while consciousness is the source of these limited activities. But the trick is realizing what each of them is. 

Edited May 27 by UnbornTao

[Sugarcoat]

2 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

That's precisely the difference we have to make. Intellectually, I could say that awareness is relative and may be a function of experience or the body while consciousness is the "mother" of these limited activities. But the trick is knowing this for real. 

it’s useful to have different terms. So you’re kinda saying awareness is dual . And consciousness is not?

[UnbornTao]

On 4/26/2025 at 10:55 PM, Sugarcoat said:

it’s useful to have different terms. So you’re kinda saying awareness is dual . And consciousness is not?

What I'm saying is that we don't know the nature of either, and that they're commonly held to be the same thing. 

Edited May 29 by UnbornTao

[Sugarcoat]

On 2025-04-11 at 7:28 PM, UnbornTao said:

It omitted some important details, at least on this image, but it is much clearer and manageable!

I’ve also been thinking about making lasagna at home it’s so banging!

[Sugarcoat]

3 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

I'm saying we don't know the nature of either, and that they're commonly held to be the same thing. 

Yea as you say the trick is to know it for real

[UnbornTao]

On 4/26/2025 at 11:10 PM, Sugarcoat said:

I’ve also been thinking about making lasagna at home it’s so banging!

Definitely! Better not to follow that guide, though.

Edited April 29 by UnbornTao

[Sugarcoat]

23 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Definitely, do it! 

 

Haha some time I will.

24 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

But do not follow that guide.

Ok lol

[UnbornTao]

Quote

Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.

There are two factors worth examining in our impairing velocity, in our disempowering ourselves.

The first is the domain of reasonableness. When we deal with our intentions or act to realize our intentions from reasonableness, we are in the realm of slow, impede and complicate. When we are oriented around the story or the narrative, the explanations, the justifications, we are oriented around that in which there is no velocity, no power.

Results are black and white. In life, one either has results (one’s intentions realized) or one has the reason, story, explanations, and justifications. The person of power does not deal in explanations. This way of being might be termed management by results (not management for results but management by results). The person of power manages him or herself by results and creates a space or mood of results in which to interact with others.

The other factor to be addressed is time. Now never seems to be the right time to act. The right time is always in the future. Usually this appears in the guise of “after I (or we) do so and so, then it will be the right time to act”; or “after so and so occurs, then it will be the right time to act”; or “when so and so occurs, then it will be the right time to act.” The guise includes “gathering all the facts,” “getting the plan down,” “figuring out ‘X’,” “getting ready,” etc.

Since now is the only time you have in reality and now will never seem to be the right time to act, one may as well act now. Even though “it isn’t the right time,” given that the “right time” will never come, acting now is, at the least, powerful (even if you don’t get to be right). Most people wait for the decisive moment, whereas people of power are decisive in the moment.

– Werner Erhard.

 

Edited May 26 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Can you make a dent in the idea that something external—like achieving a significant goal, having circumstances go your way, or getting what you want—must happen in order to cause or justify happiness?

Edited Sunday at 10:15 PM by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

How you approach something determines the range of outcomes you can achieve. Who are you being? How are you relating to the situation? Instead of seeing the event as a fixed reality, consider how your relationship to what’s occurring shapes the event in the first place.

Edited May 26 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]