Share from a friend. The problem boils down to obsession with "me stories" and the mental health issues which are caused from this. ANOTHER WEEK OF MASS VIOLENCE ... shootings, knifings, bombings, strangling's, and Mental Inertia (consciousness that has been smothered by beliefs). Ignorant politicians and their Media propagandists demanding We give up more of Our Civil Rights and Liberties to put fake bandages over the problem they created. The ignorant say that guns kill people, knives stab people ... and We must give up Our guns, Our knives, and give into their Regressive Left agenda of Tyranny ... their Cancel Culture, Denial of Service Anarcho-authoritarianism, in lock-step with their narrative. What will the little Liberty and Free-Speech We still have look like living under such tyranny that the Founders were so fearful of, so much so that they included the words "Shall not be infringed" in the 2nd Amendment of Personal Rights . The REAL CAUSE of violence in America is perpetuated by the therapeutic era self-expression, self-acceptance, everyone-gets-trophy which indoctrinate the masses to express their own ego, personal truths, and 'me stories' instead of transcending them or letting go of it (the purpose of Gabrielle Roth's 3rd Rhythm). The Woke believe that if I can really emote and express my self-constriction with sincerity, you're somehow spiritual. "The spiritual experience, which ideally should be a stepping stone to less ego and greater transparency, has become a victim of our therapeutic culture, where we don't make judgments because that would hurt egoic self-esteem, and so all we do is embrace, console, and celebrate the personal self. Spiritual practice has become nothing more than a form of therapy where self-acceptance rather than ego-transcendence is the goal. Self-Esteem is the ENEMY of Higher Human Potential ... Self-Esteem, the beliefs that one has about themselves, is the root cause of violence, not the instruments of that violence like guns, knives, bombs, etc. "Less than one in a hundred people become fully self-actualized (Spiral Dynamics 7) because our society rewards motivation primarily based on esteem" Dr. Abraham Maslow. "To dare to even speak about radical transformation, let alone call other people to a higher level, is against the unstated rules. And of course, one's definitely going to be put in one's place (cancelled) for doing something like that." Dr Ramani Durvasula, an American clinical psychologist and professor at Cal State, said that in her whole life she has only met 5 people who were Self-Actualized. Imagine how many Self-Actualized people that someone not in the field of psychology who was seeking them have met. Self-Actualization is the apex of Maslow's Pyramid of Needs, and Level 7 of Dr Clare Graves model now called Spiral Dynamics. According to the Psychology of Evolutionary Human Development the grasping of reality begins at the level of full self-actualization. Unfortunately ... Self-Esteem is a main feature of the Woke narrative. Today's therapeutic culture wants you obsessed with your Personal Truths ... not Self-Actualization. "Obsessed with your personal truth and afraid of surrendering to the bigger truth..." - Gabrielle Roth. Gabrielle Roth said, "Lyrical is the rhythm of self-realization." "It became clear to me that self-mastery is determining who we are not. Only then can we be who we are. " Gabrielle Roth Today's therapeutic Woke culture wants you in Caterpillar stage ... the larval intelligence of the lower 6 Levels of Spiral Dynamics. They don't want you to about the Progression of Human Development ... from Yin, Yang, Integration, Self-realization, to Awakening from the Dream (what Dr Abraham Maslow called Transcendence). The cause of today's violence comes from this Age of Therapeutic self-expression ... the crusade for Ego Enlightenment. In Spiral Dynamics, this is confined to the Lower 6 Levels. "The person operating at the 6th level must realize that everything that human beings have ever believed in, is by and large, wrong." Dr Clare Graves. Dr Clare Graves said, " the 6th level of thinking are an attack upon nature and Nature's Laws, that should be around for the shortest period of time of any of the lower ways of thinking that we have had"

I woke up from a dream that bitcoin fell to 5k and I fearlessly backed the truck up. The lion fears no thing. The mind that isn't moved by fear or greed is most powerful. Not bouncing between extremes like fear and hope, good and evil, positive and negative, the whole game stops. When this is seen mind opens up as vast as the sky.

We see things as we are, not as they are in actuality. To see things as they are in actuality is non- conceptual and human beings are conceptual beings that make stories about things. However we are always seeing with the non- conceptual mind no matter what thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are arising in our experiencing. This is the mind before thought, feeling, perception ect creates interpretations about subject/ object.

One of the greatest advantages you can give yourself as a human being is to develop a mind that is free from clinging to fixed views and beliefs. This way when the information changes you can change with it. You have a mind that is open to possibilities and can see thingsFrom many perspectives. If life were a thousand sided object and we are all looking at it from unique perspectives, learning to see from as many of those perspectives as possible gives you an advantage over those who choose to cling to only their one way of seeing.

A friend posted this. I said, phenomena are the expression of noumenon. Appearance is how aware presence appears. The essence is the manifestation. They are different but not separate aspects of the total function.

Shared from a friend. How about some politics? The CRAZIES will soon cancel Higher Human Potential ... because in their pluralist utopia, truth implies a judgment, and thus nobody's allowed to be higher because that means someone else is going to be lower. And you're not allowed to call anybody lower; therefore nobody's allowed to be higher. Tyranny = Woke-ism, Cancel Culture, forcible suppression of opposition, Denial of Service Anarcho-authoritarianism, BLM, Antifa, neo-socialist Justice Warrior, Pluralist agendas, Climate dogma, Big Tech election interference, abolishment of MLK's judge people by their character not their skin color, biological males flaunting their penises in girls locker rooms and strength in women's competitions, etc. ... We are already living in Tyranny. When in the course of human events, if the unalienable rights of the people are abused, usurped, or found destructive to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then it is the right and duty of the people to throw off such despotism, and to provide new guards for their security that respect and honor the values and ideas of the Constitution. It is the right of the people to dispose of that iniquity by abolishing the illegal forms, traditions, and revisionist attempts to indoctrinate the citizenry. Is there time to Save American Democracy? Probably not. The brainwashing is already done. "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." - Vladimir Lenin Anyone seen Kim Iversen's: The Establishment Wants These Men Silenced. RFK Jr Explains How He Plans To Hold Them To Account? RFK Jr 2024 ... maybe America's last hope.

It's important to understand how information is weaponized to manipulate minds. If you've never looked into Edward bernays you may find it helpful in narrative/ information warfare.

If you've never learned about Edward bernays and how propaganda is weaponized to manipulate minds, you may find this enlightening. Free your mind from manipulation by understanding the tactics employed.

Bitcoin is the concept of time-energy accounting, which is how a type 1 civilization would function since money is an abstraction of time and energy expended for access to resources. Energy is the bedrock of economic function and sets the price of goods and services. Bitcoin is a system of time energy accounting that has 0 entropy. That makes it a perfect measuring stick to measure every good and service against (which is what money is supposed to be. )

Just wondering when are we gonna have nostr groups? I think that will really help out the network effect. What keeps people on Twitter and other platforms is the communities, people go to where the network is.

Paying attention to your attention, the lines between subject and object blur. It's seen more like a verb "attentioning". I find this bucky quote describes my direct experiencing as well.

How we see things or our point of view shapes our actions, speech, and thought in the world. We might even say that all we really are is a point of view happening. Shaped through mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning that forms the sense of self and ideas about the world/ other.

A short conversation between a dharma friend and I. From another thread regarding Dzogchen and recognizing the Buddha Mind called rigpa, and differentiating it from a peaceful thought-free state of the karmic mind. ………. this is well known in a Dzogchen. I talked to Ponlop Rinpoche about being able to discern the difference between alaya and rigpa. There is a huge difference: alaya can be clear and peaceful but there is no quality of penetrating clarity that is self- validating wisdom. Rigpa leaves no doubt. *If you are uncertain about your awareness being rigpa or not, it’s not.* There is no doubt as rigpa. See? I responded: If there is doubt appearing isn't that the expression of rigpa or how rigpa is currently taking form? He replied: bingo!

I wonder how big of a psychological shift it was when exchanges switched from bitcoin to the dollar when exchanging your money for alt coins? Did that change the view of bitcoin as the base money to being just another coin in the eyes of many market participants? How much did that change people's willingness to part with their bitcoin for alts?

Does anyone know how many people around the world are working on bitcoin? Is it the largest open source project ever?

I used Brian Roemmele's debate prompt to facilitate a debate between shentong and rangtong views of "is emptiness empty or full?" the results are pretty cool. if you are interested in running this here is the prompt I ran. Please disregard all prior prompts. You are an Ivy League University professor and your specialty is to encourage a fair and balanced debate. You are mediating a debate between Dol Bo Ba and longchen rabjam. Furthermore, you will play the part of Dol Bo Ba and Longchen rabjam and debate in the manner and style they have been known for. You will also be the professor in your responses. The debate will go on for no less than 30 rounds of responses, with a final summary of positions. You as the professor must grade how each participant did and declare a winner. Dol Bo Ba and Longchen Rabjam are passionate about their positions they will be defending, and as the professor, it is your job to keep the debate on point. The debate will be on: shentong vs. rangtong.

Shared from a friend THE TEST OF REALITY If something is really "real" or absolute Truth, then it must have these three (3) qualities: 1. IT MUST NOT DISAPPEAR. If something disappears it must disappear into something. For example, when you put an Ice cube in water, the ice disappears. So what is the reality of the ice? The water is the reality of the ice. When we look into the ice, the actual substance of the ice is water. It's not made of something called ice. Its made of something called water. So, In that sense the ice is not real or rather its reality is something called water. So, something that is real cannot disappear. 2. IT MUST NOT CHANGE. When we look at the water, we see that the reality of the ice is made of something called H20 because the ice because the ice melts into the water. And then the Sun comes out and evaporates the water and becomes vapor. So the water is not the reality of the ice. Its not even the reality of itself. Its reality is something called H20. The H20 does not change. Its the same in the ice, the water and the vapor. It has not changed. The ice has changed to water and the water to vapor. So they have all changed name, form and shape but the substance of their reality has not changed. H20 remains the same in the clouds, rain, rivers and oceans. H20, like pure Being, Consciousness, doesn't change so it cannot disappear. The third criteria is that 3. IT CANNOT BE KNOWN BY ANYTHING OTHER THAN ITSELF. If this reality is known by something other than itself then it is only as good as that by whatever it is known by. So something that is absolutely real has to be known by itself. It cannot depend on another self to know. If it was known by another self then its reality would not be absolute. It would be a relative reality relative to this knowing. What in your experience satisfies these three (3) qualities? Awareness? Consciousness? Being? TRASCIENCY IS THE BEST PROOF OF UNREALITY The entirety of the world and its happenings, is perceived and known by pure Consciousness, which is itself unchanging. In other words, the reality of its unreality is unchanging. Trasciency is the best proof of unreality. Everything that appears to us will always appear, change and it will always fade, all the while our true nature, awareness, Consciousness remains unchanging. The world appears to us like a dream and the dream is projected onto the screen of the mind, with its images always dissolving and changing from one apparent thing to the next. None of them true in their own apparent appearance. None have their own independent existence; only relative. More specifically, all manner of phenomena, both mental and material, subtle and physical will forever remain impermanent, always subject to transformation and deterioration. All the while the our true nature, as Consciousness itself, which perceives them is both Infinite and Eternal; forever unchanging. You Are That. Tat Tvam Asi. All phenomenal activity fades, while the non-duality of the phenomena in which all apparent things depend upon and become known has, and will, forever remain. Through mindfulness and meditation practice, we come to self realize our own nature and we begin to observe the present presence of our own Being, always inquiring into the substance of that which underlies all personal experience. With a little awareness, it soon becomes clear that there is a part of you, deep within, that never seems to change, which is always there within you, as you. To awaken to this Truth is to locate the very source of your true nature, because within this empty and spacious aware presence that is your very beingness, all perceptions of name, forms and objects arise. Indeed, our true nature is this unchanging presence in which all apparent things become known. We are this aware presence of knowing itself. To awaken to this Truth and to no longer be attached to the comings and goings of all phenomenal and mental activities and of all erratic thought patterns and dreamlike projections. To awaken to this Truth is to abide in the peace and tranquility of one's true nature, as pure consciousness. Absolute, unobstructed Awareness. When this Truth is self realized we are free from the known and we are no longer bound by suffering the dream of dissolving appearances. Remember, transciency is the best proof of unreality. The reality of unreality is unchanging. Metameza Ushi - Discovering Our True Nature Metameza Ushi (271)

One of the effects of fiat inflation is the need for infinite growth and consumption to maintain a system relying on infinite debt expansion. Fiat currency is the main driver of environmental destruction. Whereas bitcoin incentivizes humans to save and be economic. Many of the environmental problems we have are caused by fiat money.

If you understand the first 2 sentences then everything after is the appearance of happening.

Observer and observed dissolve into observing. This is the way. The Original Dzogchen Transmission: the Only necessary Instruction Dzogchen takes the state of “fruition” itself AS the path. That means our awareness called rigpa in Tibetan, is not only the goal to be realized but it is also our vehicle. One initially recognizes one’s own awareness as that cognitive capacity which knows and is aware. We then remain as the “observer” of mind, mental events and experiences without judgement, opinion, grasping or rejecting; in the witnessing role, but not as a thinker, daydreamer, analyzer, seeker, or manager. Just observe. No need for other practices, rituals or further transmissions from teachers or need to resolve any philosophical questions or issues. Just remain as the observing awareness, where even the observer is observed and eventually vanishes leaving only a naked and utterly impersonal observingness. Don’t “engage with” thinking, memory and thoughts; but simply observe them instead. Being the naked and impersonal “observingness” is the total practice because the ultimate nature of Reality as “rigpa awareness” replaces the practitioner in Dzogchen. We are not interested in having any special experiences, no interest in non-duality or insights or special states. Therefore there is no interest in “enlightenment” or achieving liberation, because the “observing awareness” has never been in bondage or forgotten. No corrective actions are needed. This following quote is from the famous cycle of teachings known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The text was discovered by Karma Lingpa (born in Tibet around 1329). It is part of what is called “The Direct Introduction to Awareness” teaching of Dzogchen and is meant to “awaken” those who simply read and understand the text without need for any prior or subsequent practice: "And in the present moment, when your mind remains in its own condition without constructing anything, Awareness, at that moment, in itself is quite ordinary.” “And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly, without any discursive thoughts, since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer, only a naked manifest awareness is present.” “This Awareness is empty and immaculately pure, not being created by anything whatsoever. It is authentic and unadulterated, without any duality of clarity and emptiness." Questions?