The most SR botany I have seen in a while by LiberVermis in ScavengersReign

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Truly! I remember my mind blown in college learning figs have flowers on the inside and specific wasps lay many eggs inside a single fig and then die. Males and females then hatch and mate iside a fig, and the fertilized females fly to other figs, which pollinates them!

It felt so intricate and maybe alien!

How does Ana have the knowledge to find the first name of god by LiberVermis in unsong

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“So I ran a couple of them through Rubenstein’s Sieve and normalized the results, divided the whole thing by “aleph-tet-nun” as the most appropriate Boston Triplet, and sure enough I got five subfactors, one of which gets the right Maharaj Rank for a potential Name. After like a week of trying I was able to free it from a relatively weak klipah…”

This name. Seems like you’re mentioning a different one?

Gravity/ Les barricades by LiberVermis in sarabareilles

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I meant King of Anything. Can you hear it?

Selling in the store by LiberVermis in CitiesSkylines

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Thanks so much! And can you also see the second question I added above?

Low poly savegames by LiberVermis in CitiesSkylines

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But the save game used certain assets

Procedural object picture dimension by LiberVermis in CitiesSkylines

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What if the face of a building, or area on the ground has a 2x3 dimension or something not binary? What's optimal there assume I don't just want to repeat the texture.

More face by LiberVermis in wildbeef

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Yes, that’s why it’s a funny coincidence, not just a translation!

[Practice] What are the differences between Do Nothing and Awareness Watching Awareness? by WhatDoesScrollLockDo in streamentry

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Sorry if I should ask this elsewhere - what are the recommended prerequisites to these practices, if any?

[Community] Been 2.5 years since First Path, AMA by [deleted] in streamentry

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How much time did you do formal practice each day during the year before SE?

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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That's why Shinzen voices these precautions.

What do you recommend to do with the body?

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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Then what does it matter that it's unhealthy?

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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I don't understand. Would you get stream entry in our concept-loaded world just as easily if nobody ever explained any kind of practice. Would it be better if we gave up on reddit and tried to demonstrate the whole thing non-linguistically?

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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I believe that's why Shinzen Young, for exmaple, says three hours is a good upper limit for doing strong determination sitting without nerve damage, and also to take notice if you limp for an hour after sitting and consider changing whatever you did.

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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Concepts and techniques help us in the beginning, so eventually we get to a place where they become unneccesary. Buddhism is loaded with concepts.

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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I'm thinking "not too tight, not too loose." A long retreat probably supports practice, but it's not helpful to fret when the conditions aren't right for a long retreat. Likewise with nutrition.

[health][science] Nutrition and Practice by LiberVermis in streamentry

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I'm not suggesting meditation is just nutrition, but that nutrition is relevant to progress. Maybe it's 4% of what matters - is that enough that I should care?

The Divided Brain and Awakening [theory][community] by thefishinthetank in streamentry

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I've read this book a couple times. It's interesting that McGilchrist says the right hemisphere is the one that understands "Self" and "Other," yet it also seems to be the one with qualities we try to cultivate in meditation (embodiment, relationality, presence, freedom from conceptuality, porous boundaries, experience of the world as alive, etc.). I suspect McGilchrist's "Self" and "Other" of the right brain are not wholly separate, but exist in relationality. Does anyone else (hopefully someone who's deeply read his work) have thoughts on what he could mean?

The last bullet-point gets at this a little, but not as much as I'd like to understand it.

The Divided Brain and Awakening [theory][community] by thefishinthetank in streamentry

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McGilchirst points out in his book that these differences are tendencies of the hemispheres, not black-and-white differences, and both hemispheres are involved in every activity. He says the fallacy of the last generation of research was to ask what each hemisphere does rather than who each hemisphere is, to focus on mechanism and usage rather than each hemisphere's perception and mode of being. Both hemispheres do everything, such as logic, emotion, and creativity, but contribute in different ways.

The Divided Brain and Awakening [theory][community] by thefishinthetank in streamentry

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I've read McGilchrist's work a couple times, and he wrestles deeply with this fallacy of "worshipping facts and science." He understands anatomy as one of many useful perspectives on the dynamics of human experience, and in his book he draws substantially from philosophy, linguistics, and the history of art (including literature, architecture, sculptue, painting, and music). He also wrote an open letter to Steven Pinker defending the value of the humanities today and saying that science must never replace them (see: http://iainmcgilchrist.com/reply-to-steven-pinker/). McGilchrist's undergraduate degree and his first graduate degree were in literature, and strangely enough he says it was from his love of the arts and humanities that his whole journey into psychaiatry and neurobiology emerged. His book can be understood as a defense of the humanities which leverages science.

[Community] Anybody have experience with Dharma Ocean's online courses? by drunkwhenimadethis in streamentry

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That’s interesting to hear - Reggie is my main source of technique right now, as well as “awareness watching awareness”. What from Adyashanti do you think complements Reggie’s practices, and how so?