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@visakanv people have been trained to expect spoon-fed content, by creators optimizing for audience growth. it's all downstream of Ogilvy's "You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade"

an online cultural development that’s been troubling me is the increasing expectation that anything anybody makes has to be for the newest person that sees it. we used to do a better job of noticing that a person had an pre-existing audience/context that they were speaking to

@mitchellh they actually sell these on amazon

Now I understand the full picture. The cleanest fix is... But actually, the real fix simpler... Actually wait. The best fix: Now the real fix. Actually, let me reconsider. OK Key finding: Wait I need a hardware device I can physically punch to stop the agentic session.

@RomeoStevens76 - In contrast, mental images only seem to appear when I'm daydreaming or lost in thought, not when I'm 'paying attention' to my experience. - All in all, interesting experiment, but I don't know if I got enough out of it to keep going (?) 6/6

@RomeoStevens76 - Lots of things happening at the same time, and moving my attention between them feels effortful - I noticed a couple of times mental talk leading to feelings in the body, and vice versa. - Mental talk was by far the most common (5/N)

Here is how I began meditating. I read Shinzen's PDF on Noting. For one week, I carefully watched and noted 'mental image' each time a mental image arose. I did this for 5-10 minutes only. For a second week I did the same with 'mental talk.' Then a third, feelings in the body. On the fourth week I noted all three any time any arose. The time had grown organically to about 20 minutes. This was sufficient to start having some insights into how mental formations and bodily formations would loop into one another. This also seemed to help embed the meta skill of 'train a little noticer for a phenomenon of your choice.'

@nopranablem Is there a place to download/buy the retreat handbook without having attended a retreat?

While doing practices that increase openheartedness (eg metta, gratitude), you typically intend to grow collectedness on those sensations. When there are blocks to that growth, typical instruction is to point the practice towards that block. It can work, but it also can reinforce non-acceptance of those blocks which reduces conductivity, or overall okayness with what's present When that happens, I find it's more helpful to shift into an "acknowledgment" practice. This can be done at various levels of conceptual scaffolding, from simply "hanging out" in curiosity with the stuckness to a somatic dialogue practice like Core Transformation, IFS, Sedona Method, EK. The trap here is getting caught up "in" the emotional stuff rather than returning to the process-level openhearted practice that deepens collectedness. With skill, one can directly point a laser beam of attention onto those stuck sensations and the "acknowledgement" happens subperceptually, immediately dissolving tension into more okayness! (excerpt from the @jhanatech retreat handbook)

@RomeoStevens76 where's this from?

I wish this were a joke and not an actual quote. "Using this method, one can attain freedom in two or three months." First question: "How can I attain freedom even more quickly?"

@cammakingminds @catehall "so you prefer humans keep dying in war"

@catehall Can you explain? I'm a veteran and this hits me sideways. I know you don't mean "prefer" but I don't know what you really mean either.

Back in reality, the Father of the Year is competing to provide software for autonomous weapons, while the company with the childless ethicist is resisting it at significant cost

I would use the time machine to bring the Buddha a whiteboard.

@nosilverv you're missing the units for the x axis:

You will feel your feelings whether you want to or not. You just get to choose for how long. (Unless you die. If you die you can escape that. [Unless you reincarnate])

@samism @samism I was just reading your self-fulfilling prophecies thread, which seems to be a more general version of this idea, right? Swap "the futures you want to avoid/achieve" with "the futures you expect", and you got SFPs.

Really fucking useful

In love with the gall inherent to calling God “misaligned”

@orphcorp Yet you participate in this platform. Curious!

any "personal development" method that works is just unconditional love with extra steps

@tucker_peck but what if I'm trying really, really hard?

Monks try to transcend samsara, but monastic life has regular human needs built into it. Your profession, social life, direction, and purpose are all covered. Being a layperson sitting alone in your bedroom trying to be happy independent of conditions isn't likely to work.

@RomeoStevens76 "you should have an opinion" that's crazy bro x.com/eigenrobot/sta…

Recent events have again reminded me that people don't know about The Scam. So here it is again in case you forgot or are encountering it being said out loud for the first time. The Scam is that your opinion matters.