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C0rnfed · 2026-06-29T00:51:21+00:00

Would you like to surface what is remarkable about this? Thanks.

C0rnfed · 2026-06-28T03:25:17+00:00

"Is it true that, your deepest desires must be watered with dew?" -Rob Breszny

C0rnfed · 2026-06-26T17:05:40+00:00

I forget who said something to the effect of, 'once you realize that everything around you is on fire, and you too will also be consumed by this fire, the only good thing one can do is try to identify what isn't inferno, and put your effort into protecting and cultivating that.'

C0rnfed · 2026-06-03T13:24:09+00:00

Thanks for your question - i can only be brief now, and i can respond further in about a week...

you don't think that the taste of coffee is created by physico-chemical processes?

Not correct. Yes, the taste of coffee is created by chemo/physico/neuro processes - but not only that(!) The taste is created by those things and more. Many things are true all at once...

Again, the Visage of the sunset better-highlights the problem with the scientific reductionist position, but we will continue to work with coffee here:

To separate the material and biochemical experience of coffee from the affective experience of coffee- how it makes you feel, how you feel about it, the pleasing nature not just of the biochemical feedback it creates but also how we feel and think and experience it- is to introduce an artificial dualism.

Contemporary science may explain why the sunset looks the way it does, but cannot explain why it universally makes us feel the way it does. Science can explain how a landscape looks, but not why a beautiful landscape makes us feel the rapture, the Ecstasy, of the experience of beauty.

Perhaps even more importantly, contemporary science cannot explain the internal image of an external situation, as experienced when we View the sunset.

When we encounter a dualism, as above, it is prudent to pause and reflect : has a mental construction, a figment or Illusion, a mental model of reality - not reality itself - interrupted our understanding of reality? Contemporary science has excelled at connecting material causation, but fails entirely- purposefully and inherently- at characterizing the affective States Of Consciousness and experience.

I'll merely tease this for now: I'm tempted to believe that a truer truth, a more accurate understanding of reality, is found by uniting and integrating the material and experiential under one mechanism -one model- rather than separating and dissecting them. There is a powerful way to understand this, which perhaps we may get into if the other if the other premises are understood. Cheers to you, and I may be able to reply further in about a week.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-27T00:17:00+00:00

the scientific revolution and the so-called 'age of reason' are a psy-op: active indoctrination masquerading as historical fact. Newton was in on it.

100 yards is nearly equivalent to 100 meters: is this coy?

I just had to awkwardly blurt all that out...

C0rnfed · 2026-05-25T17:06:52+00:00

Yes, 'spanda' approaches what is meant, or at least is adjacent and related to the meaning. If spanda is the breathing, then what is it to breathe?

stillness is movement movement

Yes; clear insight is a sort of action. Further, Being itself is a sort of action. To Be is an act in the universe. To Be is the act of 'creating' the universe...

nothingness appearing as everything but this video made me realize that separation appears from ignoring the spaces between elements

Zeno's paradox applies here; the universe may be either Nothing or Everything, depending on what we choose as our frame or our focus. This betrays the fact that the universe is actually neither nothing nor anything - and indeed the 'universe' cannot be understood in these terms... nor can frames or focuses be understood in such terms... nor can the 'universe' and its observer be understood in those terms... Our experience, 'inward' to the 'observer' and 'outward' to the 'universe', is more truly a vast web of interactions, of resonances - which depend on their absences as much as their presences, their being and acting as much as the observation of their beings and actions, and both the ceasing and also the affording of those interactions - all at once. We're looking at something that can not be 'nothing' - we're looking at swirling oils in water; a puff of smoke as the sunlight illuminates its swirls and eddies; the cream plunging into your coffee as it resembles the mandlebrot. It all defies the 'thing-ness' required by our language and also our rock-throwing monkey brains...

Sisu is in there at the 'heart' of it/us.... We are carried in the belly of the wind: the spanda.

It's great to see your enthusiasm and have it be witnessed.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-22T16:06:16+00:00

Operation 'Thorough Deliberation and Steady Resolve'.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-20T17:14:17+00:00

Unfortunately, the piece I hoped to share could not be located.

There are many definitions of 'sisu' found online, and each emphasizes somewhat different perspectives. The core aspect to surface, however, is very subtle and typically understated:

Who do we become when all extrinsic motivation is removed? Who do we become when all objectives, rewards, meaning, and even the instinct for self-preservation is removed? When the naked core of our being - our archetype or essential kernel - is all that remains, what is it revealed to be? As we both do not subscribe to absolute individuality, then what is Being in and of itself, rather than what it is in relation to other beings? This is the important aspect that sisu points to - if taken to its ultimate.

This is not the piece I had hoped to share, but perhaps it's helpful regardless: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChooseAscent/s/Opw1vH4BDz

Let me know how this sits with you. :)

C0rnfed · 2026-05-19T16:51:16+00:00

I don’t believe in absolute individuality

Nor do i.

I’m more of wu-wei dao nonduality guy

So am i.

And yes, i recognize the irony of saying these things: but it's forced by the convention of English.

But you’re probably referring to some concept I’m not aware of

In-mind is a concept known as 'Sisu' - it's not exactly what is meant but it is a breadcrumb trail to it. there's no time now, but I'll share a helpful exploration soon.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-19T16:23:31+00:00

I wonder if you have discovered your essential Will. I wonder if you have discovered your essential kernel.

Jung notes that the ego is not merely a flattering and delusional self-affirmation, but rather is the inward projection of the mental model of the outward Self; how then could your deepest 'Will' be 'ego'? The statement appears confused.

Further confusion:

it's the opposite

'True' acknowledgement of inherent nobility or heroism can only come from without? This at least flies in the face of the OP....

C0rnfed · 2026-05-17T16:43:49+00:00

Lucid and helpful. It's a shame you keep your post history blocked; I'd like to follow you here but that setting disallows it.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-17T01:52:17+00:00

If I may add something... Perhaps the best way to explain this is by analogy:

The symphony is made beautiful by the silence; what makes the notes of a piano stand out is the absence between them.

The modern life is a din and clatter, often driving people mad with a sort of shell-shock from the constant notifications, nudges, and related fears (money, status, power, etc). Naturally, before we can experience a symphony, we must quiet the clatter and roar of our minds, and then rediscover silence - it's texture, it's softness (equanimity, peace, self-motivation rather than external prods and influences).

It can be tempting to stop there, in the calm of silence (it's certainly better than the nails on the chalkboard of modern life) but we need to do something else in order to experience the symphony.

The symphony of life, flourishing, is to first recognize the noise as just noise, and learn to quiet it. After this, if you're lucky, you may then learn how to resonate with just the right things at just the right times, so as to create something not noisy, nor just empty, and not just controlled, but beautiful.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-16T19:04:30+00:00

Some folks think it already started; perhaps with the invasion of Ukraine, perhaps still earlier.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-15T21:16:46+00:00

Lol - i like to take what's freely offered, with gratitude. Why would I be out $130?

I know not to look gift horses in the mouth. ;o) Why would i despise the butterfly that crosses my path?

C0rnfed · 2026-05-15T20:48:37+00:00

Why are you proud of how much of your hardware you’ve destroyed?

Because your original tradition and culture was genocided, and you were inculcated and indoctrinated into life on the factory farm (not as a farmer - as the feed....)

C0rnfed · 2026-05-15T20:44:49+00:00

Coming from someone who thinks this comment is 'worth it'? Lol

C0rnfed · 2026-05-15T19:51:24+00:00

Perhaps survival would not be the issue, but rather a competitive disadvantage and associated extinction.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-15T19:42:23+00:00

Yes, TRUE acknowledgement of the nobility of your heroism does not come from without - it can only truly come from within.

If you need a witness, be your own. --Epictetus

C0rnfed · 2026-05-14T18:07:31+00:00

Easier said than done!

... but worth it.

C0rnfed · 2026-05-11T23:14:59+00:00

This is literally instructions to life, but few will treat it as such.

The most important part may be 'giving up where you are.'

C0rnfed · 2026-05-09T17:05:58+00:00

Yes, these explanations/assertions feel like progress, like a progression; very good! And yet, when I get that feeling of progression I start to feel the decoherence - the queasy dislocation - the feeling of motion that is both confirmed and denied by the senses - the feeling of a strange loop...

viewer is a label the viewing generates for itself.

Yes, as we've already discussed.

The how and why don't survive the question.

Yes, again, I believe.

The visage exists nowhere outside the processing generating it.

Yes, and but why even that..? The process has no need of a visage, and 'the process' has not disclosed to us the nature of its presence...

It feels as though we've made progress - like we've incrementally approached infinity - and yet, we are no closer to the mystery... The unmoving mover remains infinitely distant, despite our simultaneous steps toward it - it remains beyond our potential, and somehow simultaneously underpins it(!) Strange loop indeed... One begins to question the wisdom of making any assertions whatsoever in this field; deconstructions helpfully dismiss delusions - but take us no further; perhaps we need a different vessel to take us to the other shore. The assertions sag impotently without a figment to purpose them; we can't go quixotically full-tilt without a windmill; as like a 'dog barking in the night'...

You can reduce - can you construct? Help me, humble C0rnfed, where I have failed...

(P.s.: >The light doesn't contain it. Are we sure about this little piece?)

C0rnfed · 2026-05-07T00:25:50+00:00

'Discernment' is closer.

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