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Re: Quotes - discussion
Perhaps all we can do is talk about what helps us on our path, what has made us successful in striving for inner peace, clarity, and kindness. In the hope that perhaps we inspire someone else to try one of our techniques.
Awareness has helped me on the path , that is, through meditation one gradually becomes aware of being aware of becoming aware. Which gives thought breathing space(aka timeout) between thoughts becoming wholesome or unwholesome actions...
"Awareness is fundamentally non-conceptual before thinking splits experience into subject and object.
It is empty, and so can contain everything, including thought. It is boundless. And, amazingly, it is intrinsically knowing."
And
"Every moment is a moment of events and no moment passes by without an event...One can not notice a moment without noticing events taking place in that moment...Therefore the moment one tries to pay bare attention to is the present moment !"
I've found meditation helps to stop the mind from becoming tied up in (k)nots
Shoshin1
Re: What documentary are you watching?
Demis Hassabis is an interesting guy, with some major achievements in AI, but the Large Language Model revolution caught him by surprise. He is not the only big name in the field.
Jeroen
Re: Quotes - discussion
I think this is an area where our similarities diverge. I'm very much not about ideals, but balance and integration. I see winning as yang energy and the other as yin energy. Regarding winning, if you look at it in terms of comparison with others, yes there are only a few at the top. If you look at it in terms of comparison with yourself, then anyone can "win", external vs internal. I also don't generally look at it as a zero sum competition, though I recognize that much of the world does. My attitude in general is much more process oriented than goal oriented, just worry about doing the things that improve your mind and life, let the outcomes take care of themselves.
person
Re: Quotes - discussion
I’m not sure there even is a superior way, given that we all seem to walk our own paths 🙏
Jeroen
Re: What we are doing right?
When I do something wrong, I'm also doing something right,
For whatever I do at the time will always shed some light.
Right and wrong are relative, they shift with every clue,
In every stumble, I find grace, and learn something new.
Shoshin1
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“Having to be right has to do with faith - with, again, beliefs that we don't even know we have. Beliefs make the mind fragile and vulnerable. But when you get everything right in examining your mind it gradually becomes milder and malleable like moist clay. Asking yourself questions is the moisture that softens that hardness, that makes that rigidity relax.”
— Jon Bernie
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz
person
Re: Earthing
The Apollo astronauts left a Chuck Berry record on the moon (part of the “We came in peace for all mankind” message offering) which pretty much caused Carl Sagan’s head to explode. This dichotomy sums up my reaction to earthing to prevent/cure disease.
Humans (actually all animals) are indeed capacitors, capable of storing a charge; that is, a DC voltage potential. This can of course be discharged by grounding. Interesting, I suppose. And with modern technology, quite measurable whether interesting or not.
Prior to the 1800s, there were many explanations/superstitions about the cause of disease, and also a few actual hypotheses. But thanks to Koch, Pasteur, and others, we now understand the “Germ Theory of Disease “ which postulates that microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi) are the pathological agents responsible for infectious illness. Since then the corroboration has been massive, to say the least. So, if someone wants to persuade me that a lifted ground, besides curing 60 Hz hum in the PA, also somehow causes disease, I would like to hear an explanation of the pathophysiology involved.
On the other hand, there are things, a great great many things, which we experience to be true but that do not yet have a plausible/verifiable physical/chemical explanation. A barefoot connection to the earth is good for me. I can feel it. I can’t explain it but I’m not sure I need to. Breathing outdoor air, on the trail by the river with the dogs, is blissfully restorative. The dogs swim in the river, even in the bitter cold (northern Colorado). They know, at their level, what it is doing for them. I know too, but not in a way, in a realm, that coexists with words, or Internet forums.
I’d love to walk barefoot in the damp sand. But I’ll skip the grounding mat. Yes, if the panel is wired correctly it will ground the static charge; I know that at the physics level. But it’s not the same as being truly connected to the natural environment; I know that at the much higher natural level.
Steve_B