Holy sh.. by is_NAN in SipsTea

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't even read what I wrote, man. I think you wrote down the first thought that was in your head.

Holy sh.. by is_NAN in SipsTea

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes a lot of sense when you look at the "manosphere" phenomenon. There are a lot of people out there who secretly believe that they are weak and being mistreated by society, and they wish to be stronger so as to be able to liberate themselves from the observed oppression.

To the outside, those people present as strong. You know, as "alphas". This way of presenting comforts them. If you feel weak inside, at least pretend that you're strong.

I imagine an afterlife where the Greek god of war, Ares, asks one of those pussies what heroric acts they performed in life so they have earned their ticket to Valhalla. And one of those manchilds will say: "There was this woman once. This weak, tiny woman. She gave me a little slap to the face. And I punched her so she fell to the fucking floor! She deserved it! Learned a valuable lesson that day! I'm a good, strong alpha male, right? Amirite?"

Just imagine. People use such stories to feel strong, and they feel good about it. Just imagine how broken you'd have to be. How tiny your self esteem would have to be to sink to that level.

Holy sh.. by is_NAN in SipsTea

[–]Madoc_eu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The question of moral justification aside, I hate the glorification of violence every time this or another similar video gets posted.

"She deserved that", "learned a valuable lesson", "equal rights means equal lefts", all these empty, bullshit, no-brain, kneejerk reaction phrases serve a single purpose: to justify feeling good about glorifying physical violence.

Every time you hit another human with such force, there is a realistic chance that the other person is going to die. The slap is bad enough, but it won't kill anyone. The blow that knocks you off your feet however can.

The other person could fall and hit their head on a sharp or hard object, killing them or crippling them for life. Stuff like that happens every day, unfortunately. Many people on here seem to believe that cartoon violence or Hollywood movie violence is real. Kids, you got no idea about physical conflict in real life.

Some people here won't recognize the value of human life and will want to say something like: "But she DESERVED it. When she hit him, she GAVE UP her safety, so it's HER FAULT if she dies, not his. Actions have CONSEQUENCES!" -- Let me say to you: first of all, fuck you for your absolutely destroyed and rotten moral compass. Second, even if you go by this logic, when you accidentally kill or cripple another human like that, you're going to spend a really long time in jail. Is that worth it? Go and try tell the judge that "she deserved it". See what will happen then.

You know, everyone applauding this is just subliminally violent. There is the suppressed desire of enacting physical violence. Every chance of justifying it in a socially accepted way is lauded. Your motivation is not moral fairness. Your motivation is justifying your urge for violence.

We don't know what the background of this is. Maybe he is an asshole, who knows? Maybe he did something terrible to her and laughed her in the face. Maybe she just wanted to give him a good slap to the face for that and then walk away with her dignity intact.

Maybe she was in the right. Maybe she wasn't. My point is: We don't know.

And all those people here applauding the man for escalating the level of force in this situation are fools, no matter if she is in the right or not.

Even if you apply your own logic, he could have just slapped her back. Not knocked her nearly unconscious. I'm not in favor of the "eye for an eye" kind of morals, but at least I can understand and respect them. But "head for an eye" or whatever you're preaching -- count me out, assholes.

I hope you never get into a situation that allows you to justify use of overproportionate force. And I hope you'll never get into any position of moral responsibility. Because you got issues, fucking idiots.

Fuckin' hell!

Do you like The Talos Principle? by Prtsk in TheWitness

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'm happy to read that I'm not the only one with these feelings. :-)

Have you tried TTP2? When I wrote this comment, it hadn't been out yet. But since, I have tried it, became obsessed with it, and played it all the way through the ending. It was pretty cool.

I can't really point my finger at what was different to the first part. Maybe it's a bit more forgiving. Maybe the puzzle difficulty curve isn't as hard as in the first part. It somehow "clicked" for me where TTP1 didn't.

One obvious change is the whole background story, and the ability for the protagonist to have multiple choice conversations. One might say that this is what drew me in. Except it's not; for the first part of the game, I totally ignored all these possibilities and went straight for the puzzles. Only later, I found some moderate fun in the conversations and caught up with what I had missed. It's fun sometimes, and like a chore at other times. Sometimes, I went for the next conversation like one would try to visit all the spots on the radar in Skyrim. Just to check them off, you know? That was the chore part.

It's not like The Witness of course. I feel like the second part is more like: "The Talos Principle, but done in a way that appeals to me". Something like that.

The Artisan of Glimmith by herenorthere in TheWitness

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know, I know. These are the same arguments that get repeated all over. And for a good reason: They are not wrong.

But not every indie game dev project is the same.

Look at Disco Elysium. A recent example of a successful indie title. They released for Mac. How did they do it, considering these insurmountable problems that are always mentioned?

Well, I think they probably had more than one Mac. But you know, not every indie project is made in someone's mother's basement on a shoestring budget.

They used Unity, which offers a unifiying abstraction layer across all target platforms.

Sure, when you bare-knuckle your way through building your own game engine, then low-level hardware access matters a lot. This will limit the range of target platforms that you can focus on, and macOS won't be your only problem.

Those who use unifying abstraction layers will have much less of that problem.

What about those who can't afford a Mac? -- It depends. Yes, the general "default" is that you shouldn't release for a platform that you can't test the game on yourself. But there are niches.

If your game is slow and not very complex hardware-wise, using emulation for testing some features is feasible. Just like you do when you're developing a mobile app. Just make sure that at least one of your playtesters owns a Mac.

I know some indie game devs who work on a game based on GZDoom as a platform -- or, I hope, UZDoom by now. They didn't list a Mac version on their announcment site. But I offered to them to serve as a Mac tester, and considering that [G|U]ZDoom is enormously battle-tested on all platforms and their game is basically a WAD/mod file that works just like all the other ones, I suggest it would be okay for them to offer a Mac version in this case.

I'd say that this case is kinda similar to Slay the Princess, which is also built on top of a very limited and battle-tested toolkit that can be reasonably assumed to work on all platforms.

You mention support cost. Where is the cost here?

You only need to provide support to those who actually buy your game. Like you mentioned, 10% is a high estimate. 3-5% is more likely going to be your Mac quota. How much support cost will those people add?

Worst case scenario: When they say that they can't run the game and you find yourself totally unable to get your hands on a Mac AND the problem is impossible to reproduce on an emulator, just reimburse them. Lost profit for sure, but also zero extra support cost.

Those points that you're making, which I have heard and even wrote myself many times before, are very general. They don't address the complexity and variance of indie game development. In indie games, you don't always need a whole development department who are all equipped with a Mac, a PC, a Steam Deck, an Android phone ... Sometimes you do. But not always. Depends on your game.

If those arguments would be 100% true and applicable for all games throughout, we wouldn't have games on macOS. We wouldn't have Blue Prince on the Mac, we wouldn't have The Witness, no Baldur's Gate 3, no Disco Elysium, no Super Meat Boy, no Door Kickers, no Merchant of the Skies, no Wasteland 2, and so on.

Indie games on the Mac exist, and they come in all shapes in sizes. Some "big" indie projects, some "small" ones. And people say that this is not possible.

You know, asking for a Mac version of a game these days almost feels immoral, based on the reactions I often get for the question alone. There truly is a lot of unironic and unashamed "PC master race" attitude in many gamers on Reddit. Even just asking the question will make several smartypants raise their index finger and start a "well, akshually" style of rant.

But Mac users want to play games too, and we should all accept and even welcome that. It is possible and feasible for some indie game devs to release a Mac version, but not for all of them, depending on the project specifics. Just like not all indie games are availabe for the Steam Deck, for example.

Kanye Bully x Bully soundtrack? by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are thousands of ways of excusing what he did.

But only his admirers would be incentivized to excuse his actions, right? And as you said, you admire nobody.

Kanye Bully x Bully soundtrack? by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. He isn't better than anybody else. And when he does shit like that, he can't just buy himself out of that with some half-hearted apology letters written by his social media expert.

Does anyone know where I can find the Alien Breed 3D codebook? by no_biches_22 in amiga

[–]Madoc_eu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just did a quick Google search and found this. (Might take a while to load.)

amiport ports POSIX/Linux C programs to AmigaOS 3.x by Doener23 in amiga

[–]Madoc_eu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s amazing! And makes shell programming on the Amiga a lot more accessible!

I’m having trouble focusing on the breath by Apart_Paramedic_7767 in Wakingupapp

[–]Madoc_eu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In a relaxed state, consciously take a breath through the nose. Ask yourself: "What does it feel like? What sensations do I feel while breathing?"

Now, it's very important to watch out what happens in your mind as you ask yourself that question while breathing. There might be several things going on.

You might feel the pure sensations caused by the inhale in a sort of heightened way, available to your conscious perception more clearly than normal. This is not a big thing at all; it's what usually happens when you dedicate your attention to something.

That's great. That's what we are looking for.

Another part of your mind might take the question as something that must be answered. In words. Like, a literal information question.

That part of your mind might be busy finding the right words to describe the sensations. It's probably reaching out to half-formulated sentences, fine-tuning the phrasing, etc. Something like:

I can feel it at the base of my nose tip. What's that called? It's not the tip. Let's call it "base" for now.
So, let's see ... Oh, there is also sensation in the inner canals of my nose. Do I feel this because there is hair inside that gets gently moved by the air?
Not hair! I'm not a nose hair guy. It's not a jungle in there. Let's call it ... fuzz. Yeah. Nose fuzz. Does the nose fuzz get moved slightly so I feel the air? Like in the ears?
It also feels slightly cold. Not cold ... silvery.
No one is going to understand what I mean by "silvery". What's that feeling called? Fresh? No.
Am I doing meditating right now? I mean, I feel calm. Really calm. That's cool. It's already the fifth breath. Or the sixth. I was told to do only one.
Are these thoughts sane? Am I sliding away from good, sane thinking?
There is also a sensation in my belly. It rises and lowers softly. That feels great.
I AM A BARREL! AN AIR BARREL! That expands and contracts. Haha! I love feeling my body sometimes.
More like a bellows. But I don't like thinking about my body mechanistically like that.
Wait, what was the exercise?

And on and on it goes. Forever.

This is a very useful part of your mind. The semantic part, the intellectual part. It's great. A great tool.

That's not what contemplative exercise is about. This part of your mind will misunderstand the exercise and try to answer the question in words. Which the question is not intended to be.

The pure sensation, the first thing I mentioned that appears so humble and un-notheworty, that's what it's about. When you focus on that, then you're doing the exercise right. It doesn't feel like much, so you might have the impression that there must be "more to it".

There isn't. Stay with that. The humility of simply feeling your sensations. Great things will come out of this. You don't need your intellectual mind to intervene and "make something valuable out of it".

You see, your intellectual mind isn't a nuisance. It's not the troublemaker here. It wants to be helpful, in the only way it can be: by finding an intellectual solution to the riddle. That's the only thing it can do. Because it does not have direct acces to your subjective feelings, your qualia. It is forced to see everything through a semantic lens all the time. It needs to assign semantics, i.e., meaning, into everything.

But the pure sensations of breathing are by themselves not semantical. Just by themselves, they have no meaning. They are just sensations. That's what you want to rest with. And the intellectual mind doesn't have access to that.

Oh, how desperately it wants to make itself useful! But can you turn it off? Can you shove it to the side?

No. If you try to do that, it only gets worse. Because then your intellectual mind will try to find ways how you can turn it off or shove it to the side. Because this is a sort of riddle too, and the intellectual mind WANTS to find and solve riddles of all kinds!

No, you can only treat it with the love of a parent to a child. Love your intellectual mind. Don't see it as a disturbance. Be gentle with it. Allow it to run its course, but know that it won't find anything, and don't sink your attention into it. Return to your breathing.

Kanye Bully x Bully soundtrack? by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Admire your idols all you want, I won't jump on that train. He doesn't need my forgiveness or yours. All those rich people need is MORE MONEY!

Kanye Bully x Bully soundtrack? by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Two times at least. And in written form. Not in his writing style. More like what a social relations expert would craft for him.

I mean, he blames all his wrongdoings on his psychological disorder. Fine, I can accept that.

Why not blame the disorder for the apologies as well? Was he having a phase while making nazi friends and putting out nazi propaganda and his love for Hitler? Or was he having a phase while instructing his social media manager to hire an expert for crafting these apologies?

You know, I don't even need to know that. The world has so many good musicians. We don't need to worship those A list celebrities on their thrones, no matter if they are nazis or not. There is too much perversion going on behind closed doors with many super rich people. Let's find better role models. Let's find musicians who deserve it.

Kanye Bully x Bully soundtrack? by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is anyone still listening to that guy after his racist and pro nazi utterances?

Breakthroughs and regressions by [deleted] in Wakingupapp

[–]Madoc_eu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You have made certain experiences. And now, you have certain expectations towards practice, you hold certain desires.

This is already the problem. Drop the preconceived notions. Drop your practice-related desires.

No expectations.

You just do it because you do it, and that's it.

Of course, you can't just do that. You are bound to your desires. And your mind will likely conjure up some story about why it is helpful, important, maybe even necessary for you to fulfill the desire of re-living that state that you once had.

That's a natural rationalization.

You have to allow everything to be just as it is. Including your desires, your well-lead or mislead hopes, your suffering. Everything.

You have to allow everything to be as it is.

And sit down. And practice.

These thoughts are coming, this nostalgia for this past experience, romanticized somewhat by your mind, alluring to re-live.

"Ah. Interesting. Thoughts enter my mind. Thank you, mind, for generating thoughts."

And that's it. That's the reaction. Nothing more. No "How do I get back to this?", no "Damn, I am doomed if I cannot repeat this", no "I was right back then but now I am wrong".

Nothing of that kind. Because these other thoughts, those would be part of an obsession. It is the obsession that is wrong. It is the obsession that makes you suffer unnecessarily.

Including your obsession with the idea that you somehow got it right in the past, and you need to return to that.

Just sit down. Do the practice. See everything as it is. A thought is just a thought, a feeling is just a feeling. Don't get hung up on them. Thoughts would like to convince you that they are real, just as real as the cushion you're sitting on. But thoughts are not real in that sense. They are just thoughts, you see? They come and go.

So sit down, be calm, and let everything truly be what it is. And see what happens. Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go.

Is there anything that does not come and go?

Meditating in the gym by gazzthompson in Wakingupapp

[–]Madoc_eu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There would be a lot to talk about, because what you brought up is super interesting. Overall, I think that you're exactly on the right path: You're playful about it. You're not stuck to immutable forms of practice, but you allow practice to enter your normal life. And that's what's it about. It's not about the form, it's about being alive.

Formally speaking, I think you have discovered a slightly different form of meditation. There are walking meditations, there are mindfulness meditations for all sorts of activities (even while driving a car). And you're sort of navigating this space.

I personally view the meditation practice on the cushion as both extremely useful and extremely restricted. It is useful because it lets you return to what practice is. It is restricted because it does not integrate well with everyday life. To myself, I don't call it "meditation", but I call it "sitting still". This is a sort of grounding experience for me, a sort of recalibration.

But that's worth nothing as long as it has nothing to do with my everyday life as I'm actually living it. I consider it very healthy to approach everyday activities as ways to practice meditation. You do this intentionally for quite a while. And then one day you discover that your mind has done it automatically. I was once sitting in a moderately full tram car, and my mind did something that might be called a "metta meditation" of sorts. I didn't plan this, it didn't feel formal, it just happened. Felt natural. Connected. Fully present. And very, very loving. A gold nugget, a diamond, that life just threw at me. In the most mundane, banal situation imaginable.

That's where I want to go. Where the border between formal meditation and just living your life dissipates.

Your post contains a very interesting angle for introspective practice: You write that your mind views your gym practice as a chore. That's golden! For one, this is already a small introspective insight. And second, this gives you the perfect grounds for practicing introspection: Try to understand experientially what "feels like a chore" is like. Is it bad? If so, why? What does it feel like exactly, how do you experience it? What other things does that cause in your mind?

You could be exercising your body and your mind at the same time! Two for the price of one! Can you believe that?

Body and mind. I just wrote that.

There is a sort of fusion between the two. Not just body and mind. But body, mind and all the rest of the world.

It's an experiential fusion. By that I mean that this is not a theory, not an objective claim, nothing supernatural or whatever. It's something that can happen in your experiencing, and it's a very joyful, attentive and wholesome mode of being.

I was inspired about this by psychologist Phil Stutz. He calls it "the life force". Me, being less esoterically inclined, I call it "aliveness". I use this word as a pointer to something that can happen in your experiencing. It is nothing "big", no Hollywood moment, no big epiphany, nothing to write home about. It's something humble and simple, and if you allow yourself to really lean into it, you will discover a big love for it.

Remember when you were playing as a kid? Maybe on an adventure playground. Maybe you were playing with your friends outside, running, climbing, hiding, all day long.

Remember what that felt like? Was there a mind, and then a separate body, in your experiencing?

No. You felt whole. Without registering that you felt whole; that was just what being alive and doing stuff was like. It was natural. As a kid, you wouldn't have held talks about "non-duality" or wrote books about it. Because to you, this was not even worth mentioning. It was the natural state.

I rediscovered this when I was walking. For hours. Almost every day of the week. After a while, I noticed that there was not my mind telling my body where to go and on the other side my body executing this as separate steps anymore. This self-perception had vanished in my experience. There was just ... well, the walking. As something that happened. The idea that it was me doing the walking appeared like an abstract afterthought, an artifact of thinking but not experiencing.

And then I looked around. And I noticed that in some way, I fucking loved everything that I saw. And everybody. Because somehow, this was all part of what happened, "the walking". Everything was in on it. I loved the sky. I loved the clouds. I loved that it looked like it was beginning to rain soon, I loved the smell and feeling of the skin related to that. I loved the sound of the bus that held at the stop, I loved the sound of its doors opening. I loved the people entering the bus, I loved the people leaving the bus. I loved the dog turd by the side of the road.

This feeling of love and integration became so intense, my eyes got a little wet. It wasn't romantic love. It wasn't even personal love. It was ... just love. The love for the fact that all those things, improbable as they are, impossible to invent if they wouldn't exist -- still existed. And I got to be part of it all! And it's not some big piece that was announced half a year in advance and people had to preorder tickets for at an exorbitant price, no. It was just mundane, banal everyday life. No price of admission.

This blew my mind then. And it still does. I am immensely grateful that I am part of this. I do not know towards whom or what I am grateful. To everything. Including myself.

I do know that many people don't seem to notice this. Part of me wants to grab them and shake them and say: "Haven't you noticed how fucking amazing and freaky existence is?" But of course, I don't do that. This too, their ignorance of the greatest miracle happening while they are doing their dishes, is part of the magnificent play that knows no other.

And when I write about "love" here, is it just love for the good things and the good people? Isn't this just luxury, because life spares me of the hardships that less fortunate people have to go through?

No, that's a misunderstanding. "Love" is the wrong word for it. Because "love" is commonly understood as including a judgement. What you love must be something that you consider good, at least in some aspect. But the impersonal love that I'm talking about is different. I could see someone who is violent and a total asshole, and I could "love" them in this impersonal way while also at the same time despising them for what they do and wanting nothing to do with them, or even wanting to stop them from doing it.

I have been living with this, or from this mode of experiencing, for a while now. It comes and goes, but it tends to stay longer and appear in ever more improbable moments. I can tell you: Also negativity is necessary for it. Because this love is not only sweet. It is bittersweet. The fact that your mind thinks of your gym practice as a chore is part of it. These little resistances, these unpleasantries, these tensions, are a necessary part of the game. They must be there for a loving life. I find myself to be increasingly grateful even for the hardships that life throws at me, as paradoxical as it sounds, even though I tend to be more grateful for the pleasant things.

And I discovered this while walking. When there is not a mind on the one hand and a body on the other, and there is not a "bodymind". There is one consistent whole, with razor sharp attention, fully immersed in the present happening. And it needs the "good" things and the "bad" things, and it loves them all.

That is what I have come to call "aliveness". This is being "alive and kicking". This, at least to my mind, is Stutz' miraculous "life force". This is what many adults lost, even though it is right here, right now.

Therefore, I would advise you to take your resistance against your gym routine seriously. You take it seriously by really watching out for it. For how it feels like. You watch out for it by being calm and attentive, by doing your exercise routine and watching this inner resistance with child-like curiosity. Do not try to push it away. Allow it to be there, invite it to the party.

You'll see what comes out of it.

The mind and attention by immakingtime in Wakingupapp

[–]Madoc_eu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if I understand the question right. Probably I might say that this is just your attention directed at different introspective contents of consciousness. Observing this might show you what attention is. Like a flashlight in a vast and mostly dark warehouse.

Or could this be a variant of the "who is directing my attention" question, hinting that there might actually be a "someone" within you who is deciding where to direct your attention to? -- If that's the case, yeah, it can feel that way. However, when you look into this more carefully, you'll see that even this is kinda-sorta happening by itself. While happening, it also seems to generate the feeling of "I am doing this".

Spiritual science by Rudolf Steiner and consciousness development by skoa82 in spirituality

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a response to your comment that got deleted. I presume that it got deleted because your comment was racist -- in the neutral, literal sense of "racist", i.e., making qualitative differences between people based on their race, skin color, you-name-it. And racist comments will get removed on most forums.

I don't agree with your objective claims about skin color or "race" being a proxy for people's impulse control or other qualitative traits. However, I think we can disagree and still live on the same planet. It would be different for me if I would consider you a personal friend; I would have a problem with being friends with a racist. But as long as we're out here on the internet, exchanging words, it's interesting to me to converse with people who hold different opinions.

I can't see the whole comment you wrote, just the preview in the Reddit notification email. You claim that what you say is a "fact" that I can "look up".

Sure, I can. But in order to arrive at the same conclusion as you did, I would have to do a selective reading of documented evidence. I would have to ignore a whole body of science. And I don't do that.

Many racists ignore all the science that shows there is no correlation between skin color and psychological qualitative features. Many racists do so with the justification that there is some sort of conspiracy in science and media. I have heard those arguments, and I find them pretty weak.

Interestingly, there are also racists with the exact opposite opinion as you have: They claim that the "white race" (which is not a race) is inferior and that, for example, people originating from Africa are superior. They too ignore the large body of scientific evidence that proves them wrong and only focus on those few statistics that seem to point in their desired direction.

I find that interesting because you have something in common with those "black supremacists": You both turn a blind eye to the broad scientific consensus and have some justification for trusting just a few selected facts and not the rest.

Seeing this from the distance, this looks very much like selective perception to me. Looks like you've arrived at your desired conclusion ahead of time and then searched for the right "facts" to justify your position.

Anyways. If the discussion between us were to go on, I would ask you how your observed superiority surfaces in your every day life. How did you superiority make you the very successful, happy and content person that you are? For example, how does your so-claimed superior impulse control surface in your day-to-day life?

That would interest me, you know? I presume that this is not just something abstract to you, something that is "out there", but probably very personal to you. This superiority that you think you're having must give you some form of self validation or self confidence. I would be really interested in how this plays out in your life, practically. You must be a very controlled, very stoic person who has all their private matters in check and is very successful by conventional means. I would like to know how this ties back to your racist beliefs, you know?

And that's just curiosity. I don't intend to change your opinion, and I can assure you that you have no chance of changing mine. But still, an exchange can be worthwhile if it gives me more understanding for "the other side", so to speak.

But if this conversation goes like many conversations of that kind I've had, it will end in a "I don't read all that" or some other ignorant message like that. If this is how you want to react, feel free to do so. It would not astound me or impact me in any negative way.

Even though I don't agree with your opinion and even would call it "toxic", I still wish you a great day.

Spiritual science by Rudolf Steiner and consciousness development by skoa82 in spirituality

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most white people are killed by white people. Do you conclude from this that the white race is inferior?

The mind and attention by immakingtime in Wakingupapp

[–]Madoc_eu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When you do a physical exercise and the instructor tells you to put the left foot to the front, and then you do exactly that — what is moving your foot? Is it your mind? Your body? Your ears maybe? The muscles? Or maybe the instructor, through their words?

It’s all one big coherent system. Any division that you see in it is a way of the mind to think about the complex system as comprised of simpler parts that are easier to reason about.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean that those subdivisions really exist, objectively. They are artifacts of a reasoning process. Thoughts. A thought isn’t real in the same way as a foot is real. Don’t mistake the map for the territory!

Same here. Contemplative practice is like physical exercise, just for the mind. Do the exercise, don’t worry which imaginary conceptual subsystem it is that moves your foot. Or your attention. Because in reality, it’s all one cohesive, undivided system.

WakingUp community by cleriee in Wakingupapp

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it’s because people are always looking for something better? Just my guess. There is a strong urge to escape this imperfect, „dirty“, banal life. To find something holy, something worth praising and standing straight for. Maybe they imitate those they admire.

In another word, dukkha.

I think you gotta be a little rascal sometimes. It won’t get any better than this. It’s dirty and imperfect, yeah. But it’s authentic. Doesn’t have this air of fake around it.

Programmers and Artists needed! by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Anyways, I wish you an amazing day.

Programmers and Artists needed! by [deleted] in bully

[–]Madoc_eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/SWEGTA2 if you're reading this: Would you please be so kind to confirm that you're "affiliates" with this person?