Whatever is being done, is it. Appearing as many forms but formless aware presence.
77 I would do 777 but I'd go broke quick.
Oh damn that's smart. Gotta get on your level.
I can't wait for star field, it's supposed to be skyrim in space. I look forward to the mods that will come out for it!
It's crazy to think about how all our bodies are is code and our senses through which we interpret "reality" are the software.
What are your top 5 for next time I'm out there?
Glad you enjoyed reading it!
Oh man I can see why, the seafood cheesecake there was so amazing!
IDK if I spelled that right.
Cafe du mond is amazing. I would travel to New Orleans just to eat. Been to jaqomos before?
Tldr: abandoning fixed views and beliefs is the way that truth can be discovered.
The difference between woke and awakened is vast.
To paraphrase a 2001 commentary in WIE (What is Enlightenment) magazine:
To dare to even speak about radical transformation, let alone call other people to a higher level, is against the unstated rules. And of course, one's definitely going to be put in one's place for doing something like that. And thus without realizing, many participate in a conspiracy of mediocrity.
The conspiracy of mediocrity is basically the conspiracy to express your own ego instead of transcending it or letting go of it. The idea has become "if I can really emote and express my self-constriction with sincerity, I'm somehow spiritual." Actually, people (today's Woke) who are involved in this boomeritis even deny the importance of Enlightenment or Awakening, because that's saying some states are higher than others ... and we shouldn't be so judgmental because it offends the neo-pluralistic ego.
The spiritual experience, which ideally should be a stepping-stone to less ego and greater transparency, has become a victim of our therapeutic culture, where we don't make judgements because that would hurt egoic self-esteem, and so all we do is embrace, console, and celebrate the personal self. Spiritual practice has become nothing more than a form of therapy where self-acceptance and a neo-pluralistic agenda rather than ego-transcendence is the goal.
The great promise of the human potential movement was very straightforward - there are higher human potentials. Now, from the therapeutic culture, people say, "wait a minute. you're saying there are higher potentials, so does that mean I'm lower? because that can't be right". All of a sudden it implied a judgement, and nobody's allowed to be higher because that means someone else is going to be lower. And you're not allowed to call anybody lower; therefore nobody's allowed to be higher. (Equity and skin color now trumps Character).
So the Human Potential movement got derailed and was replaced by this (Spiral Dynamics level 6) therapeutic self-expression, self-acceptance movement, which catastrophically prevents higher transformation and Spiritual breakthroughs. Under the therapeutic culture, if you feel good, you're enlightened. That is mediocrity, the conspiracy toward mediocrity, and the cancellation of Higher Human Potential.
In our current therapeutic, woke, personal truth orientated society people don't want to see that what they feel is meaningful actually promotes the greatest threat humanity has ever faced ... that their neo-pluralist ideology is the enemy of Human Potential.
Using the Evolutionary Psychology model of Spiral Dynamics, our current therapeutic society can be bundled in Level 6 ... color coded as Green (Greens) ... their metaphor: FeelingsMatter.
However, "The 6th level of thinking are an attack upon nature and Nature's Laws, that should be around for the shortest period of time of any of the lower ways of thinking that we have had" - Dr Clare Graves.
The ONLY healthy Green is one who recognizes that EVERYTHING they believe is WRONG
"The person operating at the 6th level [aka Global, pluralistic Consciousness] must realize that everything that human beings have ever believed in, is by and large, wrong." Dr Clare Graves.
Buddha was asked (Sambodhi Sutta), 'What are the prerequisites for the development of the wings to self-awakening?' His response was that admirable friends, admirable companions, is the first prerequisite for the development of the wings to self-awakening."
Admirable friends put the dharma (a relevant life) before human-centric viewpoints ... thus making available a fertile ground for cultivating Heart-mind or Unfabricated Present Awareness. Sakyamuni Buddha (Upaddha Sutta) said that admirable friendship is the whole of spiritual life.
Shared from a friend.
Honestly it just seems like you're starved for attention but hey that's just my viewpoint.
Well your statement here is factually untrue sir.
Yea i think it's important to keep a presence in many places for many reasons. To combat fud and misinformation, to spread the signal to those who have not yet discovered bitcoin, and to keep planting seeds everywhere for the future forest to grow.
Ah I see. Sounds like a pain in the ass. I'm guessing it's a troll thing?
Pura Vida, Thursday enjoyooors
It appears the hellthreads have been kinder and gentler overnight, no?
What are these hell threads I've seen people posting about?
Are you using paid relays? Nostr.wine had a really good filter for spam.
It never stops being what it is in actuality. Just appears as all forms. Like water takes the form of ice when frozen.
Ultimately I think that's what minimalism is to me though. Realizing that having a bunch of stuff doesn't necessarily make one happy and in that realizing what I don't need. Knut svanholm had a really good quote about this. I think it was "that which you don't want, you own." I may have a couple words off there but that's the gist.
Yes I find that I don't really need much. I guess I've always been that way. Acquiring things has never really appealed to me that much. I just somehow knew that it wasn't the key to happiness because I watched other people with endless desires for things that could never be satiated.
Having few wants I am always content. Although i do enjoy things for their utility like instruments, books, and basic things. Yet i think about what I would get if I was rich and I just want to have a house with a pool and hot tub. Wealth to me is the ability to be free to experience the short time we have here, see the world, help make it better, and spend my time freely doing what I'm passionate about.
This was a wonderful post!
That's a lot of bitcoin but I'll think about it lol.