slark
@baby_slark
Fake cat really person
If I was a happy person, full of love and compassion, what would I do?
not having friends
IME many* things get easier the less you think about them. the more I heard about body acceptance → the more I thought about my body → the more I disliked it. filled my head with other thoughts, filled my time with other activities... surprise! it was no longer relevant.**
Okay so... I want to elaborate: I am currently in a very weird place in life. Less than three months ago the "stable" vision for my future was utterly shattered. I found myself living in another state, with family I typically see 1x/year, unemployed, single, etc.
advice to self I am slowly integrating: others’ goals are not yours, and only yours matter.
i use them to block out the rest of the world and my body.
wonder if people who like to listen to e.g. podcasts while working/doing chores/etc, only do it secondarily for "learning" and/or entertainment, yet SUBCONSCIOUSLY do it PRIMARILY because it acts as a source of emotional co-regulation
is caffeine absorbed sublingually, bc it really feels like as soon as the coffee hits my mouth God comes into the world once more
This is how I got a vaccine against GPT psychosis: About a month ago I got in an argument with my wife, and turned to chattyg for advice. It put me into what seems in hindsight a temporary insanity, providing very destructive advice. A nano psychosis. It caused me to escalate…
staying up late because im working on a presentation about wisconsin food, but now im going nite nite. feel better knowing that in this day in age we have food manufacturing standards so my cheese isn't all fucked up.
The work of a serious mystic is straightforward: look directly at reality as it is right now; try to see as clearly as possible what it is and how it does what it does. That's it, it's simple but hard work. The distractions from this work are endless, the deceptions sneaky.
A potential problem of ANY psychological or spiritual approach is that it closes the doors to completely independent contemplation. As powerful as an approach may be, it's a lens and you're taught that lens - you haven't discovered it for yourself. And that's fine. But instead…
"In true perfection of generosity, there is no one who gives, no thing given nor received, and no one one receiving." ... "That's nice, sir. You still have to pay for your lunch."
Trolley problems pure evil. They never exist in reality. There's always a third option. Life is full of context and nuance.
You should save 10^100 shrimp instead of one human, because 10^100 is a very big number. If you are 99.9999999999999% sure that shrimp feel 0 pain, and .00000000000001% sure that shrimp feel a 1/10000000th the pain humans do, this would still be an easy decision
Metta for bangers tweets may you be liked may you be replied to may you escape containment may you live in minds rent free
attunement is when my wife tells me she wants me to take her on a date and i take her on a date.
A great bodhisattva ambition is to adhere to a high standard of theory of mind, such that we make the cognitive effort to remember what it was like to NOT have certain insights. I have read entire books, by highly esteemed Buddhist master's, that were trying to be…
