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life is not something you do but something you are. Each moment it creates you. Life uses us as its instrument of creation.
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When positive and negative cancel reach other out you are left with dharmakaya. Reality as it is before appearing as thought, sense perception, and phenomena. In Dzogchen, you don't use thoughts. Because thoughts make more trouble, thoughts bring more problems, and that is ignorance. Why? Because if you think, you follow thoughts and that creates something, like negative thoughts for instance. So instead, you have to look at your thoughts. Don't try to stop them. Don't follow them, just leave them as they are. If a thought comes, if you leave it, it just disappears; There is no need to go against it or try to stop it. There is no antidote to thoughts. Just leave it as it is. Lopon Tenzin Namdak
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Bodhi☯️ 1 year ago
When Buckminster Fuller was asked by a 12-year-old boy how he would suggest solving international problems without violence, he answered: “I always try to solve problems by some artifact, some tool or invention that makes what people are doing obsolete, so that it makes this particular kind of problem no longer relevant. My answer would be to develop a world energy grid, an electric grid where everybody is on the same grid. All of a sudden, there would be no problems anymore, no international troubles. Our new economic basis wouldn't be gold or dollars; it would be kilowatt hours.”
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Bodhi☯️ 1 year ago
Shared from a friend. Contrary to accepted groupthink, neuroscientists say that the Mind and brain are not interchangeable terms. Brain is an organ; Mind is a Field. The Mind is to the body and brain, somewhat as music is to a radio. The Mind is prior to the body, before the brain and subsequent sensory interpretations ... in ontosophical Buddhism, Mind precedes all phenomena, thus Mind does not arise from phenomena. The reality of the 'cognizant brain' has been compared to the 'tip of an iceberg,' and the brain in the sleep state to the larger mass of the iceberg under the surface. The tip of an iceberg can be likened to the physical bodies of humans ... which includes the sensory apparatus (seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, and thinking. As the 'cognizant brain' enters rest periods, the sleep state unconscious mimics the senses from memories for dream experiences. Full-spectrum consciousness (i.e. Spiral Dynamics level 8) is the holistic awareness of the 'cognizant brain' (tip of the iceberg), unconscious mind (the ice mass under the water), and the ocean that adjoins the unconscious (which includes all other icebergs). "If two 'icebergs' (human individuals) come together in peace and say to a mountain: 'Move!' and it will move" - Gospel of Thomas 48 Considering this water-based analogy, imagine placing some of the fresh water (like that which lies close to the iceberg) in a twenty-cube freezer tray. Let’s analyze that water. All of the water is the same. However, when the tray is frozen and reanalyzed, there will be twenty individual, distinct, intricately latticed ice crystals, each one as different from the others as a snowflake or a fingerprint. The ocean could be likened to a superconscious field, directly inaccessible to the tip of the iceberg above the water and the 6 senses that keep it distracted. Thus a preself-Actualized unconscious may occasionally pick up gnowledge from that field, but interpret it through 'tip of the iceberg' beliefs. The 'tip of the iceberg' says, “i think, therefore I am.” Whereas a consequence of full-spectrum consciousness is the shift from "i think" to the gnowing of When 'Am I' (thinking is, without exception, always in the past) ... thus a momentous leap from a fragmented consciousness that places knowledge on a pedestal, to the ability to recognize gnowledge. know\no, v. knew, known, know-ing, knows; OE gecnawan, be able to; akin to L. gnovi. 1. to perceive directly through the senses; comprehend through the intellect (the 6th sense); psyche. 2. to have fixed in the intellect or memory, something as true. 3. to be acquainted with or have a practical understanding of, as through sensory experience; know how to cook. 4. to comprehend noologically; through thought/intellect. gnow\no, v. gnew, gnown, gnow-ing, gnows; from Gk gnosis, understanding through Heart-Mind (Heart Center,associated with the butterfly shaped thymus,and has nothing to do with the heart organ/pump). 1. to understand directly through metasensory awareness (beyond the 6 senses); comprehend through the heart of essence or thymos. 2. to experience, without media-tion, something as true. 3. to be acquainted with or have gnostic understanding of, as through metasensory experience; to gnow love. 4. to comprehend ontosophically; through prajna/gnosis. Yes ... the 'heart pump/muscle is important for physical and emotional life ... and the electromagnetic field manifested from this key organ of the circulatory system is impressive ... but it is not the Heart Center ... the place where the two triangles of the hexagram interlace ... the recognition of which only occurs through unfabricated Present awareness. The heart pump/muscle is never Present ... there is no Present in movement ... there is no Present in time. The ideograph, or heart shape symbol, associated with love has been seriously corrupted by Object-ivists to imply the 'heart muscle,' whereas the ancient glyph of a red heart shape with unfurled wings is the Awakened Thymos (Anahata Chakra). The Greeks learned of thymos from the Egypt, and possibly Indus Valley Civilisations of the East ... and was associated with the Life Force (Egyptians) and Heart Center/Chakra (Naga). Identify the two secondary chakras located near the shoulder blades, and imagine a pair of wings extending (anchored) from the thymus gland (your Heart Center, typically atrophied in today's World) through those shoulder blade chakras. We all have the potential to unfurl wings from the Anahata Chakra, just as Isis, and her Sky Dancing Mother, Nut. The first female, Lilith was depicted in ancient times as having wings. Lilith (Genesis 1:27) was created ... only afterwards was wingless Eve (Genesis 2:21-23) fabricated. Genuine intuition (inner voice) is rare because such understanding must by-pass the lower Six Senses (the organs of sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and thinking), which few people are capable of allowing while cloaked in a myriad of beliefs and diversions ... in servitude to the 'voice in the head.' True intuition (the inner voice) is gnowledge, not knowledge ... it arises from individuality, not the personality or through sensory input. Lao Tzu said "the treasure is hidden inside your own breast." The intuitive voice is not a feeling ... 99.9% of feelings originate in the head. Eastern philosophy says that the 6 senses is one sense of feeling. Intuition is developed by relating with what will never leave you, and from which you can never leave. Women's obsession with dogs and alpha males for their security promotes an inferior humanity ... and a World void of Peace and Higher Human Potential. The USA, with a population of 345 million , has over 90 million dogs (larger than any Country) ... while for contrast, India has a population of 1,450,000,000 million, and 10,200,000 dogs. Likewise, the USA sexual market brainwashes women to desire Alpha males ... males who are enamored with mental inertia, and thus real Spirituality, that is, not being in conflict with the in-breath and out-breath of Spirit, is improbable. "There is no fellowship with the fool" - Dhammapada To even begin recognizing what will never leave, one must be able to recognize what will leave them ... what comes and goes. Intuition is synonymous with the 7th sense. It is always available, but that presence is for the most part smothered, obscured, and filtered by the 6 senses. The 7th level of conscious awareness is without sensory input. Gurdjieff would develop access to intuition among his students through "stop exercises." In the middle of any activity, he would say "stop," and the student would instantly freeze, thus manifesting much stress to ego. These "stop exercises" are synonymous with the "Just Because Club" activities developed by what Claude Needham. The egoic cognizant brain an innate desire to maintain transcendental unavailability, thus keeping sentient beings from revealing their authentic, unconditioned Self's. Where religion and science steps between us and our direct experiences, Transformational Triggers such as the "stop exercise" can precipitate for us direct ecstatic experiences. These activities bring pause to ego, beliefs and attachment to the past, and thus, being free of preconceived references, engage us, if just for a "taste", in the Present. To reduce all the above down to one word ... it is Present. There is no Present within the cognizant brain ... nor can the Present be uncovered through meditation. "The location of the truth of the Great Perfection is the unfabricated Present; not a hair of which can be forced into relaxation through meditation." Jigme Lingpa The 'inner voice' is not actually a voice as the 'voice in the head,' but always a gnowing that emerges from Stillness, not knowledge. All knowledge springs up from the past. Intuitive gnowledge comes in a flash ... usually a momentary flicker during the transitional state between "awake" and sleep which are often accessed by creative people ... however, if we are distracted by the 6 senses, these are more as hallucinations than intuitive insights ... it's impossible to think, see, taste, touch, smell or hear in the Present. “Phenomenally, we can know no Present, as it must be in the ‘past’ before our senses can complete the process of recording it, leaving only a suppositional past and future; noumenally, there is no question of ‘past’ or ‘future,’ but only a presence that knows neither ‘time’ nor ‘space.’ ” - Wei Wu Wei. Another access to the Absolute Present, although very rare, is through elevated state of Heart Consciousness beyond the Simulation that can occur between two people ... which is called Karmamudra ... and brings clear insight into the nature of reality through the harmonious two-way flow of energy ... unfolding two beyond One. True non-duality is beyond One. “Those who think of mind in terms of One or Many casts away the light and enters delusion” - Saraha
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Bodhi☯️ 1 year ago
The yellow eyes stay on because everyone should aim to have the level of integrity and conviction that yellow has.
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Found this, gave me goosebumps. I am just an instrument for life to live its will through, this guy said it incredibly well. "WHEN THE MASTER, Christ Jesus(Aka Buddha, Atman or Krishna) says, “I can of my own self do nothing, the Father within me doeth the works,” when Paul says, “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me”—they are revealing the Fourth Dimension of life in which you do not live “by bread alone,” nor by personal will, effort or even personal wisdom. There comes a point in your experience when you are not solely you— but in which you are conscious of a Presence within. This point of transition comes when the Presence becomes real within you and takes over your life. From the moment of this transitional experience you do not again take any anxious thought for your life because there is always this IT—this Christ— or divine Presence, and IT brings to you the harmonies of your daily experience. In this transitional experience you pass from being merely a human being, thinking your own thoughts, planning your own life, arranging your own affairs to a place in Consciousness where you really and truly “feel” this inner Presence, and you then live as if you had stepped aside a little— say two or three inches to the side of yourself—and are watching your life being lived for you. If you, at that moment, are in the business world, you will find business coming to you that you were not personally responsible for—that is, you had made no personal effort to secure. If you are an author or composer, you will find ideas flowing, such ideas as you have never dreamed of, flowing to you from within—and you will know that you are not creating them, but they are given you by an inner Grace. If you are in Spiritual Work, the Healing or Teaching Ministry, you will find patients and students being led to you, and all will be spiritually healed and led by the Spirit. Thereby you would understand that “I live—yet not I, but Christ liveth my life. The Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” At this point you become the instrument for the operation and activity of divine Consciousness. When the Master says, “The Father within doeth the works” you will understand that He means that He—of His own powers, His own knowledge, wisdom or strength—does nothing, but rather that the activity of Truth in His Consciousness performs the miracles of healing, comforting and feeding the multitudes. You, therefore, become the vehicle through which Life lives itself. You become the Messenger carrying the divine Message. You will know that you are now no longer living your life but that the Presence and Power is living it and you are its instrument, mode of expression or avenue of Its activity and of course you will now understand why the Master could say, “I and the Father are one but the Father is greater than I.” This is not duality or separation. This is not going back to the belief of God and man, since we have learned that God manifests Itself as individual you and me, but rather this reveals that I, God, being the infinite universal divine Principle in Life, appear as individual you and me so that truly, “I and the Father are one.” The Inner manifests and expresses Itself as the outer individual." The Fourth Dimension of Life Collected Essays of Joel S. Goldsmith
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Song of Realizing the Way Yung-chia (d. 713) Haven’t you met someone seasoned in the Way of Ease, a person with nothing to do and nothing to master, who neither rejects thought nor seeks truth? The real nature of ignorance is buddha-nature itself. The empty, illusory body is the very body of the Dharma. When the Dharma-body is realized, there’s nothing at all. The original nature of all things is innately Buddha. Elements of the self come and go like clouds, without purpose. Greed, hate, and delusion appear and disappear like ocean foam. When you reach the heart of reality, you find neither self nor other, and even the worst kind of karma dissolves at once. The instant you awaken to the Ch’an of the Tathagata, all practices and means of liberation are perfected at once. In life’s dream, passing from heaven to hell, each realm seems real. But with awakening, the whole cosmos is completely empty. Dust builds up on a mind-mirror not cleaned. With one decisive stroke now, lay the glass bare! Who is it that has no thought? Who is it that’s unborn? It’s as if really not born, yet not unborn either. Going straight to the root is the hallmark of the Buddha; picking up leaves and collecting branches is no use at all. Most people don’t know the pearl that answers all wishes, the great pearl found in the treasurehouse of the Tathagata. Don’t seek the true and don’t reject the false; realize the emptiness and formlessness of both. The mind-mirror shines brilliantly, without obstruction, its light reaching worlds as countless as sands of the Ganges. I reveal the bliss-bestowing pearl to you now, and all who take this to heart will come to accord: When you see clearly, there’s nothing at all; there are no people, there are no Buddhas. The myriad worlds are like so much foam on the sea, old worthies and great sages merely flashes of lightning. Yung-chia (d. 713) excerpted from: The Roaring Stream; A New Zen Reader edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker. “Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh is known in the annals of Ch’an as the Master Who Spent One Night with the Ancestor. The Ancestor in question is Hui-neng. The famous Song of Realizing the Way alludes to this legendary meeting of minds. Though the author of the poem refers to himself as a mountain monk and sings the praises of hermit life, the Yung-chia of record was hardly a reclusive or obscure figure. He attracted enough notice during his lifetime to draw numerous disciples, and after his death, the imperial court honored him with the title Master of Formlessness. Along with traces of Taoism, the Song of Realizing the Way contains numerous references to the teachings, metaphors, and mythology of Indian Buddhism. All the same, it is unmistakably a Ch’an poem, laying out many of the school’s central themes, including the futility of conceptual study as a means to true understanding, the necessity of realization, its suddenness and availability to all, and the nature and importance of emptiness and not-knowing.” taken from: The Roaring Stream; A New Zen Reader edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker. The journal excerpt is from the longer original poem to convey the flavor and depth of the writing. Through writing such as this we come to love the way of the sages. Through our pure intent and commitment we follow the way of the sages. With gratitude, Elana, Scribe for Daily Zen (dailyzen.com) Taken from: On The Way: The Daily Zen Journal February 22, 1999
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Assuming John nash is satoshi, in his writings about inflation in ideal money, he talked about having a "completely steady constant rate of inflation." I think just to bootstrap the network but it's not clear in his words. It is clear in bitcoin though since he chose to cap supply at 21 million. He was concerned about it not circulating but also recognized the need for good money to be desirable to hoard. Money In the process of monetization (if you game it out) first is a store of value because it fits the 7 properties of good money. image I want to hold this thing because it had properties of money and increasing my bargaining power in the future. I am going to hoard it until people demand to be paid in this ideal money for their goods/ services. The incentive at the beginning for me as someone with information asymmetry is to collect as much as possible and not let it go. It becomes a medium of exchange when people demand that I give up some of my superior money for their goods and services if I really want what they have. There are steps in the monetization process and while the lines can be blurred like for example someone with information asymmetry has fully adopted bitcoin as unit of account, store of value, even if not using it as medium of exchange yet.
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All things are your own mind. Seeing objects as external is a mistaken concept; Like a dream, they are empty of concreteness. This mind, as well, is a mere movement of attention That has no self-nature, being merely a gust of wind. Empty of identity, like space. All things, like space, are equal. When speaking of ‘Mahamudra’ It is not an entity that can be shown. There the mind’s suchness Is itself the state of Mahamudra. It is neither something to be corrected nor transformed, But when anyone sees and realizes its nature All that appears and exists is Mahamudra, The great all-encompassing Dharmakaya. Naturally and without contriving, allowed simply to be,This unimagined Dharmakaya, Letting it be without seeking is the meditation training. But to meditate while seeking is deluded mind. Just as with space and a magical display, While neither cultivating nor not cultivating How can you be separate and not separate!?! This is a yogi’s understanding. All good deeds and harmful actions Dissolve by simply knowing this nature. The emotions are the great wisdom. Like a jungle fire, they are the yogi’s helpers. How can there be staying or going? What meditation is there by fleeing to a hermitage? Without understanding this, all possible means Never bring more than temporary liberation. When understanding this nature, what is there to bind you? While being undistracted from its continuity, There is neither a composed nor an uncomposed state to be cultivated or corrected with a remedy. It is not made out of anything Experience self-liberated is dharmadhatu. Thinking self-liberated is great wisdom, Non-dual equality is dharmakaya. Like the continuous flow of a great river, Whatever you do is meaningful, This is the eternal awakened state, The great bliss, leaving no place for samasara. All things are empty of their own identities. This concept fixed on emptiness has dissolved in itself. Free of concept, holding nothing in mind, Is in itself the path of the Buddhas. For the most fortunate ones, I have made these concise words of heartfelt advice. Through this, may every single sentient being Be established in Mahamudra. Naropa's Summary of Mahamudra. Metameza Ushi image
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Non-Duality in Bon Dzogchen Here are some quotes from a Dzogchen teaching by Lama Tenzin Namdak from his commentary on the “Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen”: “The Natural State is always integrated with your consciousness. It has never been away from your consciousness, never, ever.” “Just rest in Self-Nature, for a little while. Soon after, a thought will appear. It will come clearly. Everybody must have experience with this. When you look towards the thoughts which appear spontaneously without any planning, when you see a thought come up, look towards that thought.” “Where is it coming from? Do this carefully. Don't create anything, don't think anything, don't follow what you have learnt or heard previously. Don't follow anything. Just at that present moment look how the thought appears. You can see the thought itself clearly, whatever comes, but don't create any ideas about where it is coming from - from the heart or the brain or something. It just comes spontaneously, you can't find a source at all.” “Yet even though you don't find any source, you can still see the thought clearly. At that moment, think: 'Where is the source?' Check this. If you don't create any [ideas about the source], you will never find anything at all. If you create something, then you can say it comes from your brain or from your heart or many other things.” “But shortly, directly, if you look towards the source, you won't find anything at all. It appears spontaneously, and you can only see the thought itself. When you see a thought come, just check where it is coming from and you will never find (the source]. So then the presence which remains is an unspeakable state. It is clear.” “It is not possible to think it is like this or like that or something. It is neither 'empty' nor is it anything material. Don't think the brain is the source, nor the heart; nothing. There is just an unspeakable state.” “If you check where the thought is coming from, it is not possible to find anything at all, neither externally nor internally. Nothing. The thought merely arises. Where is it? It is not possible to find where it comes from. What remains is an unspeakable state, clear and calm. That is Nature. There is no outside, no inside, nothing.” “From this state, a thought appears and it is seen clearly. Who sees it? When you are looking at a thought, when you are thinking, who sees the thought? When you look: no-one. There is nothing special which exists as a watcher, nothing which sees the thought. There is nothing special, unless you create something.” “If you just remain in that State, there is nothing special at all which can be explained. So at that time, when you see a thought, if you look to where it comes from, you can't see anything special. Afterwards, the presence which remains is an unspeakable state. That means you are not unconscious, nor are you in a deep sleep. Your presence is clear. You can see things, but you don't distinguish between things at all. You are like a mirror which takes reflections. You can see and hear everything…” “This State looks like water in the ocean. When you look at the ocean, waves are coming and coming and shaking the water, but no matter what happens, if you look in the water, you can see reflections. Whatever you see - both reflections and waves, whatever movements there are - everything is water. Nothing is far removed from the water. That is the example.” “In the same way, whatever arises from Nature and appears as spontaneous visions or thoughts - thoughts are also visions; any kind of emotion or thoughts, good or bad, are called visions, everything is like waves or reflections in water.” “No matter what appears in the water, it is all wet, and in the same way, whatever visions or thoughts, good or bad [arise from Nature], they are all forms of the Unspeakable State.” “It is very, very important to know this. Whatever appears from this Nature, whatever thoughts come - it doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, sad, but everything appears from this Nature.” “Nature is 'taking the form' of happiness or suffering, all kinds of consciousnesses and perceptions, everything.” “That is real, not just made or created by visualization; there is no need to change anything, no need to think anything. There is no excuse; that is real Nature. You can follow this and trust it, it is real Nature.” “The thoughts and perceptions which appear from Nature are just like waves in water. They are Empty Forrns, there is no reality, nothing exists inherently at all. Therefore we always say that everything is just like an illusion. Nothing trustable exists anywhere, not at all. This is reality. This is the real Nature. It is essential to understand this. First of all you need to know what Nature itself is, and how visions arise. Visions are not far from Nature itself. Whatever visions appear, they are all Empty Forms. That is called 'illusion.' We think that our life, that all the phenomena of existence are concrete and real, [we point to] this and that.” “The thoughts which come from Nature are like reflections. If you look back towards who sees them, you yourself do not exist separately from the thought, not at all. The thought and yourself - everything - is liberated back to Nature at the same time. This State is called the Natural State.” “Who sees the thought which comes up at that time? It sees itself. Like a mirror. Reflections come, they are reflected in the mirror, they shine there, but the glass doesn't catch them or recognize them or do anything. In the same way, this Nature doesn't recognize anything, it just sees all the thoughts. That is Nature.” “Don't say you don't know Nature or you haven't seen it; it is always together with you - it is your Nature, the Nature of yourself, no separation.” “At that time, it looks as though you are watching Nature or the thought, but if you look carefully, where is 'you'? Where is the watcher?” That is a mistake [if you think there is some duality]; you are integrated with Nature, together with your thought. There is no separation between you and the thought.” “At the same time as the thought itself is liberated back to the unspeakable state, you are completely in that State; there is no separation.” “You think and feel as though you are separate, as though the thought is like an object, but that is a mistake. Don't follow this. At the same time, the thought and the 'watcher' are liberated back to Nature together; there is no separation into 'you' or 'thought' or 'Nature.' All together, they go back to the unspeakable state.” “After this, there is no consciousness, no person, nothing exists separately, so who sees this State, this Nature? It sees itself.” “That is special. It cannot be compared with any other Schools at all. People often try to compare this with the Madhyamaka view, but it is not possible to do so. This is special. Itself sees itself.” “That is called Awareness, Self-Awareness. When we speak about Nature we say it is empty, but that is only in order to give it some name; this Emptiness cannot be compared with any other understanding of emptiness, not at all. This is very special.” “Actually, it is not possible to give it a name or explain it - it is utterly beyond thought, beyond words. We only use these names temporarily in texts or Teachings, to try to lead students and make them understand, but the main thing is that when you look there, the unspeakable state is the Unspeakable State. It can see itself.” “It can be seen, but who sees it? It sees itself. What does it see? It sees itself. We call this Nature and Awareness.” “Awareness (rigpa) is Nature, Nature is Awareness; there is no separation. Not at all. Therefore Clarity is Awareness, Awareness is Clarity and Empty Nature, together. Purity, Clarity, Unity - everything is in there. The whole thing is in there.” “In order to speak about this State, we say [it has the qualities of] Emptiness, Clarity, Unification and Perfection.” “We explain several aspects. But Nature itself is an indescribable State. Sometimes we say it is empty, pure and clear.” “The Purity aspect is called kadag. The Clarity aspect is called rigpa. The aspect of Unification is called nyime, non-dual, inseparable.” “This Nature is special in that it is perfected. What does this mean? It means that good things, bad things, everything appears spontaneously from this Nature.” “Nature doesn't do anything special, it doesn't create anything. But this Nature has power, and so pure, impure, good, bad - anything can appear from it.” “So that is what we call lhundrub or spontaneously perfected. What arises from Nature depends on the person, [whether they are] following after the visions or remaining in the State.” “So we explain that this real Nature has Clarity, Unification and Perfection. We mainly explain [these aspects]. So here we can say that the Nature aspect is dharmakaya.” “The Clarity aspect is sambhogakaya (rigpa) and the vision aspect of Perfection is nirmanakaya.” “Buddha has Body, Speech and Mind, and also the visible miraculous manifestations of tulku. Many names can be given, but the main thing is for everybody to try to have their own experience. That is worthwhile. Don't say: 'Oh, I don't believe this' or something. This is Nature! You can't choose whether you believe it or not, you see, it is Nature, your Nature. You can't deny that!” “At that time, people quite often have the thought or feeling; 'I am looking at the thought.' When you have this kind of sensation, immediately look back towards who is watching the thought. Just as you look at the thought, it disappears and there is an unspeakable state, so in the same way, look back to the 'owner' [of the thought] or the subject which is the watcher. “ “This will equally disappear into the Natural State at the same time. Both subject and object are equally liberated back to Nature. This is Nature.” “Afterwards, there is no subject, no object, no separation, no differences at all, they are both equally the Unspeakable State. That is the Basic Nature.” “Keep in this State for as long as you can. After a while a thought will arise spontaneously; you can see it clearly. This thought has come. At that time, you must neither reject it, nor follow it. Just leave it as a shining reflection in the mirror. You don't need to do anything, just leave it, and it will be liberated and disappear soon afterwards. It liberates into the Nature which is also the Base (Zhi) from which the thought appeared.” “This State looks like water in the ocean. When you look at the ocean, waves are coming and coming and shaking the water, but no matter what happens, if you look in the water, you can see reflections. Whatever you see - both reflections and waves, whatever movements there are - everything is water. Nothing is far removed from the water.” “That is the example. In the same way, whatever arises from one’s Self-Nature and appears as spontaneous visions or thoughts - thoughts are also visions; any kind of emotion or thoughts, good or bad, are called visions - everything is like waves or reflections in water. No matter what appears in the water, it is all wet, and in the same way, whatever visions or thoughts, good or bad [arise from Self-Nature], they are all forms of the Unspeakable State.”
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Since bitcoin is perfect time/energy accounting with 0 entropy in the monetary system, it accurately represents the collective productive, energetic, and technological capacity of humanity. As bucky said real wealth has no entropy because you can't learn less information always improves. Found this article recently, and it's a masterpiece.