To be free from attachment to desires is the greatest freedom. That doesn't mean don't desire, it just means to let go/ let life lead when things don't go as intended.

Every human being Every company Every country Is faced with the prisoner's dilemma that Bitcoin presents to all. The incentive to adopt is extremely powerful the penalty for not adopting when others do can put you, your company, and your country at great risk of loss. Bitcoin is the highest stakes game in the world!

This video still needs to be seen by 7.9 billion people.

Saw this today. Just had to comment on it. This is just a whole lot of projection about what the "other" is like. It justifies the egoic position of superiority. That you are right and they are wrong. Which traditionally had been used by tyrants to appeal to emotion as a power grab.

Money as a system of control. Needs more views.

Epic. Awareness is Everything by Jackson Peterson Awareness/Being is Everything. Whatever you experience, you are always aware of that experience. Awareness is always part of every experience. There are not two things: Awareness and the experience. The experience is the energy of Awareness manifesting as that energy event. The experience is the Awareness of it. We are nothing but the unfolding events of experience as Awareness. We are everything in that everything is Awareness being everything. Being a separate self is Awareness being that experience of separate self-hood. There is no separate Awareness that is viewing the experience as the experience is itself Awareness. You cannot separate the waves from the ocean. Experiences are waves of Awareness and one cannot separate the Awareness from the event as the event is itself Awareness eventing. In whatever we say, do or think, all of these experiences are just Awareness manifesting AS those thoughts, words or actions without any separation between the Awareness of and the experience. Even the self of ego consciousness is Awareness appearing AS that egoic self. There is no personal Awareness as my Awareness or your Awareness. Who is there to be liberated? There is the experience of the thought “my Awareness” and “your Awareness”, but these are also experiences of a non-personal and universal Awareness appearing as those thoughts of “my” and “yours”. In this way the entire ocean is present AS the smallest wave. Just noticing and being Aware as a practice, is Awareness arising as that. In such a practice Awareness has nothing to gain. In not practicing being Aware, Awareness has nothing to lose. All experiences are equally Awareness appearing AS those experiences. Awareness is not more present in some experiences and less in others. No matter the size of the wave, all waves are still equally ocean. That Awareness is appearing AS thinking and AS the absence of thinking. Be clear here, thinking is Awareness appearing AS thinking. When Awareness is appearing AS a moment of knowing itself AS Awareness, thinking (ignorance and delusion) are absent because both are mutually exclusive appearances of Awareness.

Conversation with a fellow dharma practitioner that i find valuable: A: What has been called “presence” is the increased clarity of undivided awareness itself that comes when attention is anchored onto any object of knowledge that arises in the field of awareness. Two things are being fulfilled in this anchoring - one is awareness of the object itself, a thought, a feeling, an image and so on. The other is the space in which the object projects itself - which is pervasive, pure consciousness. Therefore every single moment of self-observation is an effort to rest in presence. With memory and will, the entire art of refining one’s meditation is reinforcing this shift from inattention to attention, over and over again, until “seeing” starts to unfold spontaneously, not unlike a lotus unfolding when it has been exposed to all of the necessary ingredients for life to flourish. Then one day you will no longer make an effort for seeing, but recognize yourself as seeing yourself. B: Well the effort is also an object or expression of that which needs no effort to know. I hear a bird chirp there's no effort in the hearing. A: You hear a bird chip and there is no effort in the hearing, yet effort is required for listening. Hearing is merely a mechanical process which leads to this particular mental projection we speak of as “hearing”, still whatever does not enter one’s perception is only a mechanical reaction. Likewise all sorts of mental projections are taking place, and one does not acknowledge, truly respond, to notice even half of them, unless perhaps one becomes a bit more skilled in the art of mindfulness. As far as spiritual process, inner purification, and all matters related to wisdom - it is not enough for there to be merely the existence of awareness. Otherwise one could spend one’s entire life in a dream, without ever becoming conscious that one is in a dream - a sort of waking hypnosis in which one is under the spell of wrong knowledge, attachments, ego identifications, stories, narratives, the expressions of one’s shadow, etc. Awareness is an impersonal intelligence which sees but cannot see itself. For self knowledge to take place - there must be perception. So much misunderstand has taken placed about these subjects because the proper investigation has not been done into the difference between perception and consciousness. Many things may exist in the field of one’s consciousness which one does not perceive, and therefore tends not to leave either a stronger impression on one’s memory, nor a sensitivity to the present which illuminates these mental projections as something immediately relevant to one’s experience. Once one can begin to exercise self observation and attention, only then can one begin to approach one’s own mental projections with wisdom and understanding, and this in itself leads to training of the wisdom faculty. Too often, because of a fixation on these one sided narratives of being “already enlightened”, the result is a very passive state of mind which amounts to laziness and an excuse to become irresponsible. This aside, it’s a one sided approach to what spiritual process is. Spiritual process isn’t mere involution; returning to the so called “source” or seeing one’s true nature. It is also a process of evolution - there are reactions and side effects to seeing oneself clearly. It is both involution and evolution together. B: Well said, practice is a continuous process, ever revealing. While it is possible for instant recognition like dzogchen and ch'an show we must do the work still to practice up to and beyond the recognition of anatta. A: Correct, for example even if let’s say it is more than a glimpse into one’s nature - let’s say the physical structure of the body has radically altered itself so that expansive samadhi becomes a default, baseline state. Even then, wisdom may overshadow compassion; emotional traumas may remain unprocessed and therefore repressed in the shadow, heart and mind may be unbalanced, one may be too immersed in expansive samadhi and not grounded enough in the body, attachment to unquestioned beliefs, confirmation biases, etc It does not take much to form a blind spot - only a single moment of inattention. So from the point of view of integration, anybody who truly beleives their inner work is “complete” is a fool, doesn’t matter what their degree of inner awareness is. contentment. I think one of the most toxic illusions for the spiritual process is the belief, in one way or another, that there is a final destination. Of course it’s consoling for the ego to cling to some idea of a final destination; as though justifying all of one’s pains, struggles, and sufferings. This is distinct from having a self made purpose, a creative vision towards which one’s efforts are directed. That’s more being a creative force in the world - creating and destroying purpose as needed. Very different from a belief in the “final destination” B: totally agree!

Yo dawg,I heard you like inflation.

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?

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I didn't think I could get more bullish until I listened to this read by Guy Swan on the breeze sdk. Holy shit this is brilliant! https://open.spotify.com/episode/1J81aL1LU3Sy9ZgCShzr9L?si=oIfTsWSJRC-9QJeQprToSg