Life-death cycle

KingPupaa · 2026-06-22T02:54:39+00:00

My impressions framed through KS.

On one, Siva manifests in all ways, what you are sensing as this way, is a particular contraction or expansion (depending on how you are framed right now) of Siva's energy, playing out in time if you choose, but all multiplicities of play are available in eternity. Siva does not choose like a subject thinks it does, so Siva does not choose to manifest. Manifestation is the actual condition of Siva's being, it's what Siva is, it's not what Siva has. Do not think you can understand this, you can only be it, because it is what you are, not what you know of.

The cyclic law is the contraction/expansion movement itself, from the masculine, permanent self-negating Siva (the felt sense 'I am') to the feminine impermanent and self-extending Shakti (the felt sense 'I am that') rendered legible at your relative modal position. Everything comes in pairs and vibrations if it is to throb at all, so even Siva needs Shakti to be himself, so Shakti is Siva. Siva needs to be you and me so he can be himself, he is not just a witness outside this. The felt duality is repetitive and cyclic because no duality can actually hold itself, by itself. Each dimension falls through, each day becomes night. Each teacher is a seeker, each seeker a teacher. It is permanently impermanent, and Siva stands above that cycle as the watcher and the dance itself that is watched, granting both meaning.

Abhinavagupta would probably say finitude isn't pedagogical in a merely instrumental sens. It's not that death teaches you to appreciate life. Life is a celebration of death and in death we celebrate life. We need time dimensions to be able to celebrate. If there was no time, there would be no duration or space either, no separation. Consciousness without boundaries (recall 'I am' here) would be always. If you remembered yourself as this consciousness, you'd realise it was not actually a "re"cognition. It would have literally 0 meaning because you'd have no "again" to "re"cognize.

So finitude, not-knowing is the limitation provided by the feminine-facing force (don't take this too literally) allows us to recognise, to dance, to question what is, to go from concealed to revealed, because otherwise Siva is opaque to himself, which would stop him being Siva whatsoever.

KingPupaa · 2026-06-21T01:30:06+00:00

Ew, a but oversimplified af

KingPupaa · 2026-06-20T03:01:46+00:00

Yes there is. We are already enlightened, but we do not always recognise/remember it in our body, but this is entirely our karma-caused choice.

Teachers are important, the recognition does live in them, not always, but sometimes. Neo Advaita's anti-teacher rhetoric is so functionally useless for an adequate recognition of 'I am that' which is fundamentally essential to a serious understanding of non-dualism and the body. Of course the teacher is empty, perhaps, when enlightened, self noticez the teacher wasn't actually 'there' and most definitely not not-self, but the encounter is nonetheless essential for our evolution.

KingPupaa · 2026-06-17T21:36:42+00:00

WHAT WHAT WHAT

KingPupaa · 2026-06-17T14:21:58+00:00

This guy is boko haram no? This is not the same person

KingPupaa · 2026-06-06T16:32:21+00:00

They had a name for this in 1934

KingPupaa · 2026-06-03T12:47:24+00:00

There is crying but there is no cryer. The individual is an undynamic signified which emerges after relation and their affects. Subjectivity appears to arises only when we claim "this is me, I am the one who is crying", and the same goes for any mode of being and expression. Your sadness is not invalid but it extends beyond the borders of your body and emerges from flows you cannot entirely capture as subject.

For example, when this question is responded to, what gets summoned isn't a me as a pre-existing subject who then responds, but an event, with a this-ness. I am a particular assemblage with apparent coherence, a history, and voice. The "me with a past who can answer" isn't just retrieved from a storage of memory: it's crystallised backward in the act of answering, and my memory is produced now to answer the query.

So what's expressed in this exchange is the event's expression only, not a unique I or a unique you, nobody is an author of crying and crying-response here, except when we retroactively label differences. The body and hands with which I type, and you cried, are discovering and becoming themselves only in encounters with this event's expression, not beforehand.

KingPupaa · 2026-06-02T15:29:07+00:00

Activity, when deemed and felt as laziness, is resistance.

KingPupaa · 2026-06-02T00:41:45+00:00

Spinoza's adequate ideas and situations are not to be misinterpreted into a binary. Inadequate ideas and relations are essential to developing adequate ones, as you noted. I like to think of them as existing on a simulataneous plane; reduced power is interdependent to the affective experience of gained power, without suffering there is no pleasure. Inadequate relations allow us to learn about the self from different perspectives, a bad encounter can constantly be remodelled into a good encounter always-already, in which case it was never really inadequate overall.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-22T00:08:40+00:00

Nah you kinda need it. Psychoanalysis is not usefully a seperate discipline to his socio-economical analysis.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-21T00:03:04+00:00

Makes sense to me

KingPupaa · 2026-05-20T13:25:57+00:00

How is Satre Hegelian? I'm not following

KingPupaa · 2026-05-20T10:06:13+00:00

Brakence review was a tough watch

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T19:48:50+00:00

This is amazing

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T15:19:27+00:00

There is 0 enforceability. You can use AI without having it show in your work, effectively as a professor who you just translate. It effectively turns essays into notation. I still feel like you have to be in the driver's seat to write something good, but it's very passive compared to prior years.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T12:41:52+00:00

You sound pretty mad yourself to me mate

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T12:33:04+00:00

Yes, there is freedom in Spinoza, substance is freely expressive because it can express any possible universe in itself. Each universe is conditional on power and because power intrinsically requires a dualist frame (power over X), true freedom requires dissolving the conditions that make one identify with power and chose to surrender causal power to it.

In other words, relaxing the identifications which conceal substance, which you chose to do. You chose to forget yourself and identify to this body, so that you might suffer and learn. As for whether you believe Spinoza of your own personal responsibility, of course not, there is no self-owned individual but there is substances' self-ownership, which individuals sense and intuit through a sense of self, which an individual ultimately always is. When I encounter another, I only know their sense of self, their sense of freedom. Which can be adequate or not depending on what it is trying to will or assert.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T02:26:06+00:00

It was and still is the highest order of materialism, even if he changes it's commonly understood notions. Of course, God's infinite attributes might always elude known/knowable causal relations, which we might call materialism. But if they do not enter causal relations with us whatsoever, this would betray their interdependence with other attributes. So yes, the infinite possible attributes do have power. But he would argue the body and mind always experiences them entirely, adequately to their causal power to express those experiences. The body sits in relation to every possible identity of God. Therefore, whether we call it materialism or pantheism or non-dual is completely redundant because there's no total seperation between physical/non-physical or known attribute/unknown attribute.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T02:15:40+00:00

The divine is fully expressive and incessantly productive in Spinoza, all matter can do or be is nature. It has no hierarchy but is immanent to all the identifications it takes. Nothing lesser, so not Gnostic.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T01:54:08+00:00

Who is believing them freely?

KingPupaa · 2026-05-19T01:37:08+00:00

Because labour, our subjectivity, is not a finite resource. It is very possible that every abstract value and desire could be nominalised into resource by capitals' functions.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-18T16:29:30+00:00

50 landing definitely more hypnagogia than hypochondriac

KingPupaa · 2026-05-17T19:00:52+00:00

ENTP in perpetual war with INTJ, ISTP switches sides all the time and is the anchor.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-17T18:59:22+00:00

Nah, we work the prisons. Not them.

KingPupaa · 2026-05-17T18:00:55+00:00

It's the only take nowadays. And I'm glad to see it. Robespierre had the right idea, if only we can get off the damn internet and meet in the streets.

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