I reckon they all measure up because anyone who has recognized three way things are before thought feeling, perception make interpretations about it through the five senses recognized the same noble wisdom.

I can read the Bible and instantly see that the writer also understood basically what shakyamuni Buddha, tilopa, Nanak, ect understood.

Can't force inspiration, it comes and goes without your doing, doesn't it? It's like a thought or the words that I'm typing here. They just happen, I never know what I'm going to say.

To date mostly only bitcoiners have been able to understand this. A few people I know in real life and zen and Dzogchen practitioners who have recognized anatta.

But quality over quantity. It's interesting that in my observations many bitcoiners have reached the 7th level of thinking on the spiral dynamics model of the evolution of human consciousness though. A very small percentage of people globally have reached this level of thought.

An interesting thought for sure. It depends on one's own mind though. For example shakyamuni Buddha had a very similar story in his path to recognizing tathagatahood. The difference was dropping all belief and identities including seeing clearly the imaginary self identity.

With no thing to rest the mind on, subject and object are dissolved and things are seen to be just as they are, an infinitely interconnected web of life.

It all depends on how one sees.

One of my teachers/ friends shared this and I find it appropriate in my response here.

A common characteristic of most Sentient Beings is a compulsion to be grounded [in the Cyclic Illusory Existence called life] which they deem to be "normal." Two feet grounded in impermanence and the mediocrity of their sensory groupthink. And because "normal" controls and indoctrinates society, anyone seeking to unground from the limitations of sentient consciousness [that in which Yang and Yin is unintegrated] is viewed as abnormal. Thus, since Higher Human Potential [Supernormal] is considered a threat to "normal," resulting in those with an urge to explore the deeper aspects of life having little authentic guidance nor acceptance in "Normal's world," some turn to various addictions (i.e, drugs, alcohol, meditation, pornography, etc) in which to smother their longings, and depress their passions with mediocre distractions to survive.

"The probability that sentient beings can see reality as it is, is zero" - Donald Hoffman.

No wonder that ... "99.9% of the World's so-called wisdom, East and West, for the purposes of awakening, is about as useful as a glass of warm spit with a hair in it." Jed McKenna

Normal, the unintegrated, know nothing about Conscious Awareness ... nor Spirituality ... Spirituality is not being in conflict with Spirit (the in-breath/Yang and out-breath/Yin of duality. Spirit ... from the Latin spiritus, the Indo-European root meaning "to breathe."

A thousand years ago the term "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world" was a description of the 84 Mahasiddhas ... mostly known as the founders of Vajrayana, Dzogchen and Mahamudra.

Having "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world" is both a desire and a consequence ... like the Noble Eightfold Path. Many wanted to have "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world," and very few had "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world."

While most view the Noble Eightfold Path (right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right samadhi )as a practice leading to liberation from Samsara ... for them it's merely a simulation ... like Richard Dryfus in the film Close Encounters, playing with his mashed potatoes or building a mountain from trash ... feeling something ... knowing it means something ... yet only playing with a simulation.

Actually ... the Noble Eightfold Path is a characteristic summary regarding the consequence of Conscious Awareness. In other words ... those uncovering Self-Actualization ... having realized liberation from Cyclic Illusory Existence ... conduct themselves in an Eightfold Noble manner ... which should not and cannot be defined by the non-integrated ... whom Dr Clare Graves identified as First-tier thinkers.

Those at the Self-Actualized level (2nd-tier) said Dr Clare Graves, think in an almost incredibly different manner than any other human being had thought on Earth.

In Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms, First-tier thinkers are those who have yet to fully Let Go in the Chrysalis of Chaos. "First-tier thinkers cannot recognize the Second-tier on their own, and react negatively if challenged; lashing out whenever it is threatened" - Dr Clare Graves

"One foot in the Spiritual" has absolutely nothing to do with religion ... in fact, real Spirituality isn't accessed until all beliefs are Let Go.

"The way to emptiness is to empty - to let go." Gabrielle Roth.

"When empty of certainty ... divested of the power of association with some system or teacher or profession .. .no longer bound by the beliefs. attitudes, habits, dogmas, theories, and prejudices of others..." - Gabrielle Roth.

"Why would we want to be empty? Because emptiness is in fact the key to destiny. And each of us has a destiny here on this earth" - Gabrielle Roth

Letting Go DOES NOT mean "let go and let God or the belief of your choice" ... Letting Go means Letting Go ... To no longer hold on ... Not to your beliefs, your gods, your personal truths, your Me Stories, your faith, your hopes and fears, your seeking, your learning, to anything you like best about the you that you think you are, etc. The Dance of Chaos is about Unfeigned Surrender ... not a continual regurgitation of one's Me Stories.

Alan Watts put it like this ... "You abandon completely all belief; you abandon every sort of way of hanging onto life. You accept your complete impermanence; the prospect of your death of vanishing into nothing whatsoever, you see, and of not being able to control anything, of being at the mercy of what is completely other than you, and you let go of that, you see, this means that you even get rid of any God whatsoever, to do it fully. You don't have a thing left to cling to."

Only by fully Letting Go can integration be realized. And until integration is realized, two feet remain planted in the delusion ... the Loop of Samsara.

"Once we deeply inquire into the relative truth, it becomes more and more groundless and illusory. With such insight, we begin to realize that the main source of human woes is ignorance, or blind faith in the validity of the relative truth." Anam Thubten

Sir, one can realize that borders, countries, and the philosophies that we run territories under are imaginary and conceptually designated while at the same time seeing that they are useful for relativistic existence. The balance is in not taking them too seriously and identifying as this or that.

The reality remains though that without our concepts about these things there are no borders, countries, or even philosophies by which we operate under.

Imaginary lines that represent our imaginary ideas of separate countries. The most important thing is the philosophies by which we operate these territories under. I've always thought of myself as a citizen of the world, not the usa.

Every day when I buy bitcoin I do it with the intent of supporting people all over the world who save in and use bitcoin as their medium of exchange.

Bitcoin incentivizes the brotherhood of all mankind because whatever you do to contribute to the network makes it more valuable for everyone.

Currently listening to @ray on saifdean's podcast and contemplating the implications of this.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4HXXqKpPLNEK1WKVSE1BPu?si=On5VkSIbSWCmGhUucZOd_A

Bitcoin is not different from the way of water.

Shared from a friend.

Zen practice is a verb, not a noun. Practice keeps the curious mind awake and aware, and never takes anything for granted. Practice consumes fixed ideas and all nouns. "From the beginning not a thing is. " (Zen) This is the funeral pyre of practice.

The only hope, or else despair. Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. (TS Eliot)

The Prajnaparamita is a funeral pyre. Practice is throwing the Sense of Self into the flames. Awareness is the Phoenix Bird that rises out of its own ashes.

Actually slightly before because Obama was campaigning and we marched with rage.

Rage against the machine in 08!

Japanese Zen master, Harada Roshi wrote:

“You may not be able to understand directly a condition where there is no self, but observing and perceiving essentially takes place without a “me” who is supposedly doing these things. It is simply the function of observing and perceiving as-it-is, without the ego-self.“

I was planning on watching this one tonight. I watch all of Ben's videos lol.

Awesome thanks for sharing!

What are some of the best resources to learn about cashu and its tradeoffs?

Never got to try it yet but I have a friend who runs a ayahuasca retreat in the sacred valley of Peru. Wanna get out there one day.

The wave of possible locations only has definite location when measured and appears as a particle. Pretty crazy stuff the double slit experiment unveiled.

That's dope.

That's how economies work!

A solid and interesting analysis of how bitcoin relates to Buddha dharma and independent origination/ the lack of inherent thingness.

Worth a listen!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6t9vPmYxY7l6HxbX1rjY6L?si=orAdcX5oSHqBT80vbsma4g