There was that buddhist monk kid who bent spoons

Might imply that meditation can do it

I think it’s a great idea.

We are the wealthiest culture ever, we can afford it.

It would zero out most crime.

Fighting to survive is beneath us.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 1989

Legend 1985 Director’s Cut

Conan the Barbarian 1982

Struggling?

Yeah, validation is part of the craft.

“It” doesn’t know that there are deeper etc. it’s a craft. It has no brain.

It is one craft. There are others (for example, whittling). Let’s not aggrandize it.

(EDIT. unified nomenclature)

Same thing in buddhism. If I quote a thing that makes no sense to me or anybody, it’s legit because a famous teacher said it. But if I just freestyle my own observation, that’s a no no.

That’s speaking from a certain perspective on that stuff.

There’s a whole world of strangeness that popular culture, science etc does not satisfyingly address. So they look elsewhere.

Sometimes you see things.

I have gone down the path of meditation an uncommon distance. Finding people to talk to about it is basically impossible. There is some common ground with consensual reality tho. And I try to do conversations there sometimes. It is generally frustrating. I should stop.

Science is just a bunch of models crafted by a society.

And there are other ways to do things.

So in summation, “nuh uh”.

Well you wouldn’t know what’s lost until you see it yrself.

From what I’ve seen, it’s vast. What remains is a single sunflower seed left from the whole flower.

Well that certainly does simplify it.

Call it a perceptual tunnelvision that becomes a habit.

Ya, a tool with a sneaky downside.

Shikantaza meditation (it’s what the zen buddhists do) has the opposite effect.

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“Inclusive terminology guidelines” is some retarded shit. Ignore it

Obsession is just the overt form of the disease.

Concentrate regularly on a thing, physical, mental or emotional, and it will produce the disease as well.

And that second form is hidden because the sufferer is not visibly raving. And they are embedded in a society filled with people that look much the same.

But don’t take my word for it. Study attention and its forms (direction, concentration, distraction…). Experiment with it. See for yourself.

Will do

I am describing the concentration of attention. Which includes a great ignoring. This is simple and obvious.

I am adding to that, habit. Unconscious action that is. Doing a thing while not aware that you’re doing it.

Which, when we put them together, gives us a kind of blindness.

If that blindness is unacknowledged then yes, that’s a kind if insanity. And it would follow that the more you concentrate the more insane you are.

If everybody does it (habitually concentrates) then yes, everybody is insane.

Is it necessary and unavoidable? I doubt it.

Am I being unclear here or just offensive?

Yeah that’s why I put it in quotes, because it’s a dumb term for what we’re looking for here.

Try just answering those 2 questions.

Or not, this is exhausting.

There’s a universe where we talk about it. Try that first.