praxis

You have to admit the thought of a hetero dude on the #MeToo list is a bit funny.

Unwelcome sexual advances have never been a problem for you? I can’t really say it’s been an issue for me, unfortunately.

Then why all the #MeToo's?

A curious thought. By “behavioral” do you mean something like unconsciously reactive? If so, are you suggesting that we’re less responsible for our mo...

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I'm gonna drink a lot less. O:)

How could it not be a phase, people regularly work through it. Why should it be any different on a societal level? In any case, I don't know if it's a...

Nihilism is just a phase of development, don't be so dramatic. Meaning comes in many forms. It doesn't necessarily need to come in a tidy religious pa...

Point being, how true is it actually, that you’ve bailed out of Weatern culture? I’d love the option to bail as well, now that I’m convinced we have t...

You’re typing this from your hermit cave or monastery cot?

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And therefore lacks the power to dissolve the disparity between mind and matter?

Trans-rational isn’t necessarily religious, in fact it may necessarily be non-religious.

Speaking of Eastern Nondualism, the concept ‘form is emptiness, emptiness is form’ from the Heart Sutra keeps coming to mind in this topic.

Having read some of their posts on the matter, my understanding is that a few of them consciously choose to express themselves in ways that may be off...

I would agree if this were a forum for children. Adults should have the capacity to deal with this sort of thing.

I think Janus strikes at the heart of the matter.

I listened to a short interview with Dennett that I found when searching for the term 'unconscious competence'. Discussing his new book, he seems to t...

I'm curious to know the basis for saying that. If you think it's too tedious or whatever to walk me though it that's fine.

It's an odd question because physical objects are represented in accordance with goals. The representations need to be faithful to the goals. Without ...

So to a materialist view, that everything we know, we know by way of the mind (activities of neural networks) - including material or physical objects...

Most basically, so that it can accomplish goals.

A materialist would argue that a mind isn't required to know things? How does that even begin to make sense?

I don't believe that I need to support the question with an example, for the simple reason that we require a mind to know anything. Material or physic...

How is this contrary to a materialist view, that everything we know, we know by way of the mind - including material or physical objects?

All this fuss over an omelet.

I'm drawing a distinction between what I'll call the 'experience of emptiness' and general contemplative practices. Contemplative practice may include...

@"Agustino" Do you believe that your posts are overly moderated?

Then with the power of now, we agree to disagree.

I didn’t say anything about teaching. I find that discussing things in a forum like this one can help clarify ideas and concepts that may be challengi...

Just one, everyone against Agustino, or rather, Agustino against all.

It might help to flesh out your ideas if you interact with others. creativesoul is no intellectual slouch.

I believe views are also subjective because they’re predisposed to particular objectives. Thought and it’s concepts are goal oriented. A view from now...

This 'experience of consciousness', as you call, is typically referred to as mindfulness. It's been very fashionable in recent years. There's no relig...

According to what you describe I experience it quite frequently, as in the your example of observing negative emotions.

This consciousnesses you speak of is mindless?

It’s the mind.

I'd like to plumb the depths a bit. When you say a conscious being with a temporary form to dwell in, are you suggesting that the conscious being is i...

That's an odd goal, quite frankly.

Sure, fine, but there's a difference between conceptual understanding and experience. Meditation or other forms of manipulating awareness are designed...

What's the ultimate goal?

A responsible owner will cover medical expenses. FYI, think I’m starting to feel a tooth ache.

The way things really are is individuated? In reality, my keyboard is really separate from the desk it sits on, and the desk separate from the floor, ...

Lower animals don't have these concepts to transcend. Obviously, we can't eliminate these concepts, but we may be able to loosen their grip on us, and...

Granted the language is a bit grandiose, but what it signifies is merely a subduing of the neural activity associated with the self-concept, or rather...

If I'm not mistaken, human nature according to the Eastern social construct doesn't contain a "beast within." Rather, the true nature of sentient bein...

No, what I meant is experiencing a new place or thing and for no apparent reason getting a bad or generally anxious feeling about it. That sort of thi...

Essentially any inexplicable and maladaptive feelings, usually bad of course, otherwise they wouldn’t be a problem.

Isn’t not practicing a method a method? :s