dhyān

attention is all we need.

A new form of collective, ego-less, networked culture is emerging, and it will unlock a higher level of reality and human connection, but only for those able to perceive and align with it.

it for its own sake. a moment lived as that, is truth. be you’d be, if nothing else mattered.

The Hindu intellectual tradition was extraordinarily good at internal analysis and extraordinarily bad at defining itself against something genuinely foreign. It could absorb what fit, tolerate what didn’t, and let rival schools coexist without ever requiring them to address each other across their differences. This worked for centuries because nothing forced the question. Then two things happened, one material and one conceptual, The material blow was centuries of redirected patronage under Muslim rule, which didn’t end ordinary Hindu life but did destroy the institutional infrastructure of Sanskrit scholarship, temple construction, and large-scale cultural production across most of north India. The conceptual blow was the arrival of a European framework that demanded every civilization define itself as a “religion” with a founder, a single book, a creed, and clear boundaries, a template built from Protestant Christianity and presented as universal. When Indian intellectuals in the nineteenth century tried to reconstruct their tradition, they faced both problems at once. the institutions that had sustained the tradition’s own forms of knowledge were in ruins, and the only institutional and conceptual infrastructure available for rebuilding was the one the colonizers had brought. So they rebuilt using the colonizer’s blueprint because the tradition had never developed the muscles for defining itself against an alien framework, and the material base that might have supported an alternative reconstruction had been eroding for six hundred years. The result is a “Hinduism” that answers every question the European framework asks, brilliantly and passionately, while never noticing that the questions themselves were designed for a different kind of thing entirely.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I’ll write a post about Sikh vs Hindu reaction to modernity.

mind creates a model of reality; we don't know any other. when 'I' try to control the mind; it forgets that the I is the mind's creation. non-duality is shattering this illusion.

@hthieblot (human + ai) loops

pitch me your company in 3 word.

@AbstractFairy Yoga Sutras are the foundational text.

@AbstractFairy yes; there are 2 threads: 1. dhyan/jhana/chan/zen; dzogchen is here. these predate any -isms and are rooted in non-doing brain states leading that feel fluid liberation/pitti. 2. vipassana etc are more theological and come loaded with morality.

Theravada: your mind is fucked, gotta practice to build a good foundation and purify it Mahamudra / Dzogchen: your original state is enlightened, your chattering mind is just like a cloud obscuring the pure sky underneath

TIL that there are actually major differences in assumptions about meditation between different schools of meditation I honestly thought most of the differences were aesthetic and metaphysical

matrix movie is just a wrapper over advaita vedanta.

Future of work will be terraforming our world to make it fit for our flourishing Permaculture Natural building Walkable cityscapes Regenerative farming Fruit forest agroecology Clean spring water systems

Identified some Real Indian builders, you should follow now: - @Abhindas1 (Robots) - @ironwagh (Humanoids) - @PritnRandom (Axial flux Motors) - @prakdadlani (Manufacturing at scale) - @thatssodhawal (consumer electronics device) - @vivekanandahr (EVs) - @alysha_lobo (global markets) - @kushgrwl (startups, manufacturing) - @deeppurpled (consumer electronics) - @FIR31415 (Drones) - @maahirpanchal (additive manufacturing) - @CaptVenk (Electronics) - @sreak1089 (Robotics) - @karthikRanga92 (Robotics) - @aggarwal_pallav (Electronics) Sorry if I missed someone in my network. (Follow me if you're interested in energy intel at scale) Tag more Indian builders below.

auto-enlightenment post AGI.

@Brad08414464 yes.

the two faces of tech are Steve Jobism and Peter Thielism. tech has reached peak Thielism and will start swinging back toward Jobism, 1970s counterculture, DIY/hacker culture, hippie and humanist ideals, simplicity, creativity, beauty

@attentionmech yup; attention is pre-thought.

Its just not enough that we cant like just open a block of reality, and analyse the information flow happening through it. Thinking in language is so limiting.

:) the idea of self-enquiry was the founding idea of the Indian civilization 5000 years ago.

@attentionmech meditation.

Is there really a way to increase working memory for humans?

life.

Consciousness is the first and final rebellion against oblivion

@nickcammarata truth. remains.

make something people want. actually better to make not wants, as wants intrinsically melt if you feel completely whole in each moment as a function of being fused with being itself. which also makes not people. and sort of dissolves "making" too. but there's still.. something

k: 1. cross-domain reasoning across all aspects of your life. 2. time well spent @meaningaligned as the optimization function. 3. attention (dhyan) tech as intervention substrate. recursive self-improvement (human+ai) loops optimizes for being ‘human’. built in bhutan. with dharma values. for the world. coming soon.