Playing with Perspectives

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Awakening?

 

Edited 19 hours ago by UnbornTao

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Whether the belief is accurate or valid, it's still a belief. 

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Watch out for the kind of lightweight, intellectual affectation that might pass for the principle of openness. It has to be real and experiential, not just "everything goes." This attitude seems to be prevalent, especially in spiritual and philosophical circles, where being abstract and intellectual is all too easy. It is also the case that, particularly when it comes to spirituality, people are downright gullible. Gullibility is not the same as being open. These can easily be conflated.

We easily put emphasis on conceptual openness while totally overlooking the principle of groundedness.

Edited February 14 by UnbornTao

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Learning by seeing: 

 

Edited December 23, 2025 by UnbornTao

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Just discovered this banger 

 

Edited December 24, 2025 by UnbornTao

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焚くほどは風がもて来る落葉かな

(taku hodo wa / kaze ga mote kuru / ochiba kana)

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the wind has brought
enough fallen leaves
to make a fire

- Ryokan

Edited January 1 by UnbornTao

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I don't have cancer (that I know of). Just curious about some of the potential benefits of fasting on human physiology: 

https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/the-effects-of-fasting-on-cancer/

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Edited Saturday at 04:24 PM by UnbornTao

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You want things, people, and events to draw you out of yourself and your little bubble - perhaps by falling in love, taking drugs, seeking gratification, gaining approval, having your worldview confirmed, and so on. You may well depend on the "other" to feel happy, to confirm that you exist the way you want to.

This ties closely to the need for validation. Deep down, you want to be acknowledged; you seek confirmation of your very existence. In other words, part of you doubts your own realness as a person.

Very raw reflection. 

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Your mind is incredibly efficient. Notice how, once you've made up your mind about something, you rarely stop to earnestly revisit the topic or your own conclusions about it. After all, in your mind, the matter has already been settled. The topic may have been transformed into a form of knowledge - accepted or rejected, neatly packaged, filed away, and now safely "resolved." This thing is what I think it is. Moving on to the next topic.

Yet we often fail to recognize a crucial difference between what is "thought" on the one hand, and "reality" on the other. The concepts that we hold are not necessarily accurate reflections of reality. And maybe they make up your reality, strangely enough.

Perhaps the mind instinctively avoids - or sees no reason to expend energy - re-examining things it believes are already understood.

Edited January 9 by UnbornTao

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Edited Saturday at 03:33 PM by UnbornTao

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1 hour ago, UnbornTao said:

Blueberries is all I care about. 

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Edited January 21 by UnbornTao

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@Yimpa

 

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We live as if the social domain were true. We think it exists by itself. We take it very seriously. And we are so steeped in this assumed reality to see through it.

Edited January 22 by UnbornTao

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Just for entertainment, might change it for another video.

Edited January 14 by UnbornTao

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Edited January 18 by UnbornTao

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Static websites with Hugo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 24 by UnbornTao