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Re: Life creates order
From the standpoint of physics and the uncertainty principle, life creates more disorder (entropy) than it does order. For example, the energy via heat given off of the human body (adding entropy) is greater than the order created by memorizing these words. Assuming our universe is effectively a closed system and the laws of physics are uniform, which seems to be the case observationally speaking, the arrow of time we experience going towards the "future" corresponds to the arrow of entrophy increasing (as it cannot increase) per the second law of thermodynamics. Something to think about.
Jason
Re: Life creates order
@Jason_
Life is indeed chaos. As we look around us, as we observe the environment, we indeed see chaos. Yet, out of that chaos emerges order, patterns. As a single drop if rain falls from the cloud, we can not predict specifically where it will land.Yet, when combined with the countless other drops of rain, we can accurately track and predict the rainfall. It is an example of chaos and order. In our lives, we take in all the countless micro bits of utter chaos and blend them into at least a perceived order. We perceive and operate in the macro. We do not see the chaos for we see or at least a pattern emanating from that chaos. Thus, from our perspective, we perceive order in the chaos, we have orderly chaos. Life is a wondrous hodgepodge, chaotic, painful and beautiful. And in our strange chaos, we are the order, we are the glorious pattern. We are the manifestation of the greatest enigma.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: Words cannot encapsulate reality
Words... Can't rightly communicate with'em, can't rightly communicate without'em.
Re: Life creates order
A completely chaotic universe is a dead universe. A completely ordered universe is a dead universe.
person
It is never too late to pay attention
If you stop paying attention to your own actions of body, speech, and mind and focus instead on some lofty idea-like “What is Buddha? What is enlightenment?”- your spiritual journey becomes nothing more than a dream, a hallucination.
When the Chocolate Runs Out
Lama Yeshe
Vastmind
Re: Wim Hof - Feel the Cold and do it Anyway
@person good for you! Let us know how it goes and what effects you observe.
The way I've heard Wim Hoff "teach" cold showers is:
a) put the shower on the coldest possible position
b) start with 30 seconds
c) slowly build up to 2-3 minutes
My personal method, which I've written about here before, is to each time slowly shower each body part, building up to a full body shower, and then to shower the whole body until the body fully relaxes and I feel I could go on forever. Same-same, since that takes a few minutes, not longer.
For sure, you can also start with mixing cool and cold water, building up to more cold water.
After a while, it just becomes easy and normal - the body adapts.
marcitko
Thoughts on Conquering Sleep/Attachment to Lethargy
From a more Vedantic perspective, but I'm open to Buddhist reflections:
When you wake up, the seeds of problems that are embedded in sleep sprout up in full fruition the moment you cross the threshold of waking. You immediately shift from the consciousness of absence to the consciousness of problems: what are my obligations today? What will happen in three hours? Did I oversleep? Did I forget something? The fact you were conscious of absence meant also that you were self-situated and therefore at peace. This is because there was nothing besides you to distract away from you. You are conscious of absence in the waking state as well, though not as pronouncedly; you know you are above anxiety at least. You still engage with objects, but you are settled in your subjectivity. You are primed; you are ready.
The trauma of waking up is therefore simply due to an ill, abrupt transition where there is no self-situated rationality to weather all things.
So one's duty first thing when one crosses the threshold of waking, is to be aware of oneself and immediately shut down all worry. Do not let the weeds of thoughts sprout up instantaneously (or at least, any more than they already have). Remember that the Self cannot be grieved. Only apparently. One moves on right the next moment. Be attentive of That. Do not lose sight of yourself at the Threshold of Sleep/Waking. Know the Fourth, which is the One. Be the Turiyam. Associate and Finally Identify with It.
Remember that sleep is not the absence of consciousness but the consciousness of absence.... So be conscious of absence during waking, and you won't miss it in sleep....
