At last, I've finally found something that you cannot change. Well then, just call this "reality" and discard everything we've said so far.
But if you are creating these maps at every given moment, isn't the maps changing depending on you? :D
Yeah, call me when someone learns to affect the map.
Can we call it your perception of the map? Because that's all there really is, that's why it's a map. Nothing exists which isn't in your present moment, except as maps.
Check this out:
https://www.mindandlife.org/remembrance-things-come-predictive-nature-mind-contemplative-practices/
If you're interested in giving meditation a try again, try the headspace website/app.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzTnS_IONU
Meditation for beginners on youtube from actualized is a great start, he also has a guided meditation track and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmG1x1ih1U
In my opinion by not approaching the meditation for benefit's sake will you paradoxically benefit the most, but I don't know, it's a speculation. Alan Watts have some great videos about this and similar on youtube :)
No problem, wish you the best :)
Peace!
So... you can change laws of physics?
I don't know, I'm not a physicist. Based on my limited knowledge is that you cannot change the map. Imagine everything in the world being a map called X, and it has a revision number. Just because you know the maps are X and have a revision number doesn't undermine the content of the maps themselves. Your life experience might become different, however.
Who is then?
For there to be control, there has to first be someone or something which can be controlled and a controller. All is illusionary. You can create maps, but they will still be maps in relation to the arational.
And why do you call it my Matrix, since I cannot affect it in any way?
I'm telling you in a practical sense since you have to have the experience yourself. You believe you are a creature, being of some kind. You can affect your matrix, by realizing it is a matrix, it's kind of paradoxical.
1) law of physics change for people who have different maps
I'm saying laws of physics is a map. Our reality is arational and exists without reasoning or understanding. Sure your map may be more accurate than other maps, but it's never the territory as it's a human projection.
2) you're just calling reality "maps that can't change", in which case there's no point in having this conversation.
No, of course, you can change maps. But it'll always be a map. "It's a map and it'll never be the territory, as it is a map"
If that's true, why isn't Liza sucking my c@{k right now? It's my Matrix, after all.
If you silence all thoughts,... (read more)
One is responsibility: if you do "place" people on a path, you assume some. You do, don't you?
As far as I see it, rationality isn't bound to the matrix (virtual reality) which we create. In this present moment, you can be aware of all thoughts and question them, even the existence of yourself. These are all concepts we have pre-determined to be the territory without realizing it in the first place. All are maps.
The responsibility is of the individual to do the work and it's always the case, as that's where the maps are coming from, they are a projection.
That is my assumption, and everything simply is. You are your environment, you... (read more)
Whether you want to use the binary enlightened/unenlightened distinction is up to you. I'm not a fan of binary classifications.
I like to use enlightened/unenlightened, because if you are enlightened you know. But you also might be tricking yourself that you are enlightened, thus cannot become something which you think you are. I think I have had a glimpse and some of it transitioned over. But then there is the ego, the monkey mind. Very close but still far away.
... (read 410 more words →)I'm just saying that you are making assumptions about me that are not true. You likely don't have preexisting categories for the state in which I happen to be when it comes to my
People go on paths regardless what you do, the better you are at convincing the likelihood they venture on a specific path is higher, I think. I don't see why it's a question of qualification, that would be more from the paradigm of the ego I think.
You seem to be strongly attached to whether or not something exist and the binary classification of something either existing or not.
No, I think it's unlikely, however.
That suggests that I have a single map of "I". That doesn't happen to be the case. There might have been a time where my level of introspection was structured in a way where it's true but that's not the case today.
You aren't enlightened are you? It's unlikely that you aren't in the trap of the ego otherwise.
... (read more)You argument resolves around you yourself having a wrong map that you haven't given up. As a practical matter it's questionable whether you are even at the moment on
I know that it contradicts, the point is that you can see for yourself is this the case. By realizing all the concepts of "you" are maps, and that there is no need for thinking (creating new maps) to reveal this truth, you can merge with arational reality. But it can only be done by direct experience. This is an empirical investigation.
Reality is arational. Everything you do is arational. You aren't aware of it because you lack awareness. By becoming aware that you are unaware, you have increased your awareness. Yet still, you will always lack awareness. The same with me. My definition of awareness is the subjective experience of separating thoughts from awareness. You can become aware of thoughts, and if an "I" thought appears, that was not you, you simply became aware of it.
My point is that I think that you, confuse the map for the territory. Now I made the same mistake, because "map not being the territory" is a map. In all actuality, all types of communication are, and... (read 239 more words →)
Was the youtube link video? Do you have the video of the TED talk? Audio is boring, but I can wait.