Playing with Perspectives

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Edited Tuesday at 02:52 PM by UnbornTao

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a dramatic, vibrant digital painting of a French omelette folding in a skillet, with warm lighting, by GPT:

Edited December 21, 2025 by UnbornTao

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Awakening?

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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 radical openness. It has to be real and experiential, not just "everything goes."

Edited December 23, 2025 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)

-

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 Tuesday at 10:15 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 2 hours ago by UnbornTao