Buddhism
Тот кто не помнит прошлого, обречен прожить его снова.
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Psyllocybine in mushrooms is said to release the control over our regular perceptions. What is actually happening while you’re high? What does it mean to control your perceptions and how do we know that the reality isn’t illusionary?
self doesn’t exist. self is the reason for our suffering. karma is what we get if we do or don’t break the patterns
2-3 Mindfulness Meditation and the Brain
Default mode network - active when not doing anything in particular. This networks seems activated or co-activated when we perform these types of self-referential tasks.
Judson Brewer
It gets your mind from wherever you are. It’s your kind wandering. Usually it’s thinking about the past or the future. No
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unseen order - truth about how things work
These truths always go unseen, because human mind tend to have distortions or illusions - we don’t see the world clearly. How to bring our lives to reality?
We can relieve our suffering or end our suffering and in a process align ourselves with e
... See moresuffering comes from the concept of self. self doesn’t only mean acquiring one’s identity by which I mean a particular hairstyle, whimsical house decor or annoying voice intonations - it is also about the Desire. human beings desire and desire make us suffer since we never get what we desire because the object of desire exists nowhere but in out own mind. once we get a vague shadow of that desire, we crave for more - thus, creating a recipe for suffering
Что общего между молотком Хайдеггера и обрядом ауяски?
Хайдеггер, Мерло-Понти, Аляска, сакральное хождение, действие ради действия, растворение в действии, освобождение от эго, буддизм, энвайроментализм
Современная культура довольно эгоцентрична. Но так было не всегда. Гомер или Августин изумлялись наличию “внутреннего” - почему он может плакать так,
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Right view (intellectual understanding of Buddhist doctrine)
Right intention
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration -> meditation (experimental/practical understanding)
How many people have actually done it?
Almost none!
Still, if you can’t eliminate your suffering, you can elimi
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