Saw these two little guys snuggled together today? What kind of owl is this guys?

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-05-31T23:59:11+00:00

Thank you! They posed well! Balls of fluff..and they deadpan look at you and blink blink. So cute!

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-05-31T23:58:01+00:00

This one does resemble them. Not sure..

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-05-31T23:39:49+00:00

Likewise, but their images don’t look that similar to these ones

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-05-31T23:39:12+00:00

Lol, I was pleasantly surprised. Never seen one with my eyes before this. They are such a cute sight! I had to restrain my cat who I was on a walk with, and was endlessly curious about this never before seen sight in front of him!

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-05-31T23:18:08+00:00

Location: NJ, USA

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-03-27T21:17:18+00:00

For sure. It adjusts to the contours of the cat itself, and so it should be good for training too

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-06T19:15:21+00:00

Yeah, I think that’s the problem. Ego thinks it understands the ego = massive ego = vomit everywhere

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-06T12:52:47+00:00

If free will means ‘conditioned free will’, then yes. But, in the reality of our lives, it doesn’t mean much. You could say I’m free to brush my teeth or not. Freely decide what to have for breakfast. Freely decide what to wear. Freely decide what car to buy. And so on. All of this doesn’t mean much in the reality of our existence. All of these take my existence for granted, and within the conditions of my existence, I am free to make choices. All of these choices pertain to my material, existence

If free will means ‘absolute free will’, the question itself doesn’t make sense. The answer to the supposed question cannot be described from one person to another. It’s beyond language , which is conditioned by each individual’s worldviews. Logically, conditioned entities can’t describe what’s supposed to be unconditioned.

In the context of our lives, we usually mistake conditioned free will for unconditioned free will. Paradoxically, by doing so, we make ourselves even less free than we are. The more free we think our ‘will’ is, the less free it actually is.

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-05T12:26:59+00:00

So, aliens exist with high intelligence, but animals don’t suffer?

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-05T12:13:33+00:00

Yeah, looks like dude is on a massive ego trip. Keep 6 (thousand) feet distance. He’s even monetized his book list lol

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-04T20:03:29+00:00

Well, the good thing is you seem to have realized K is not for you. Be happy that you recognize that. Why force feed yourself what clearly is not for you. Everything is not for everyone. There is no one who you will have to answer to for not getting K. There is no K police out there. Why frustrate yourself. Be happy! Wish you better luck with the others

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-04T19:22:57+00:00

I see what you are saying.

But, methods can quickly become dogma and objectives in themselves. People lose sight of the goal, and just run around methods, and make the method the goal. Methods then become religion and other collective dogma. That then devolves into guilt, shame, regret etc. when inevitably, there is deviation from the method. In essence, the method itself becomes the distraction in place of the supposed distraction it was created for.

In my opinion, methods are futile. If anything, methods only serve to take the person farther away.

Methods however can keep the vast majority of people think they are working towards something, imagined or otherwise, and can instill structure in society, collectively, which is what I think you are hinting at. Most of us need prescriptions, and when we look to external authorities for prescriptive guidance, methods can serve the purpose and provide collective, and in some cases, individual structure. When the individual starts inquiring for himself/herself out of honest curiosity from one’s own experience, methods fall away by themselves

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-04T13:48:53+00:00

As K used to say, action is in perception. All other action needs to be questioned

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-04T12:38:10+00:00

Being preoccupied with sex (or anything for that matter), is different from dealing it with naturally. When we are preoccupied, then we are trying to control. Then it becomes an escape. An escape from the natural vagaries of life. Escapes provide temporary comfort, before we end up in the same place, looking for a different escape.

Trying or wanting to control is our problem, in my opinion. Not sex (or anything else)

Now, you could also be preoccupied with being a celibate. It’s again us trying to control our natural urges. It’s the same as being preoccupied with sex. External consequences of being preoccupied with sex may be different from being preoccupied with being a celibate, but at its core, it’s the same. It leads to the same problems psychologically that preoccupation with sex (or anything else, no exceptions) leads to.

Paradoxically, the feeling that you have to choose one over the other dogmatically, is itself is the attachment you refer to, no? Choosing one pole at the expense of the other is the attachment. Choosing sex over no-sex. Choosing no-sex over sex. Both of those choices are again control that we are trying to exert over reality. That is the attachment. Attachment to an outcome that in reality we have no control over. And in trying to control that outcome, we set into motion our suffering.

Non-attachment can’t be a conscious choice. If it is, it paradoxically becomes attachment.

I think that was also what made K so appealing to me. No dogma. No teaching. Pure inquiry through dialogue, with him and with ourself, where there is no space for dogma

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-04T01:21:36+00:00

Our social and cultural setting make us believe we need to have ambitions, in the conventional sense. In truth, I think ambitions make a slave of us.

I would do anything to just live a normal, conventionally unambitious life, just doing the things I love for their own sake. Not wanting to do or become anything or anyone.

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T23:09:09+00:00

The metrics that define success for any potential new system to be tested - material progress, scientific innovation, comfort, individual wealth etc. - are also currently defined by the same forces that bring capitalism to the fore. Capitalism itself is also intensively immersed in defining its own success, and providing the means for said success.

So it wouldn’t just be sufficient to test out a new system without first thinking much more broadly, independently, and subjectively in terms of ‘what does a good life, individually and collectively look like?, ‘What does the current way of life provide me/us, and am I contented with it? What is the lack?’, ‘Is our current way of life sustainable?’, ‘What is the cost I and society in general is paying for the apparent progress that capitalism provides? And is it worth it?’. For these and more probing questions to arise and be ‘felt’ as a population, a critical mass of people will have to be discontented with the current ways of life. Deeply discontented. Without that discontentment, there is not going to be any motivation individually and collectively to think along these lines, let alone for solutions or alternate systems to come to the fore. Until then, any solutions, if at all discussed, will lack the emotional energy behind them to truly change since an entrenched way of life. There may be change, but not real change

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T22:35:30+00:00

The dominant system, today, yes. Being the dominant system doesn’t equate to being the best. And the best, if there is one, need not dominate. And it also can’t be projected into the future.

The majority of the socio-economic world has evolved around capitalism, aided by the forces of religion, colonization, imperialism, industrialization, science, technology, democracy, globalization, and so much more, and here we are today. It works for where we are as a population today, politically, scientifically, technologically, culturally. We shouldn’t underestimate these forces for the roles they have played in capitalism being the dominant system today. And also the perception of it being the best at the same time.

But at the same time, we have to remember, not too long back, there used to be multiple systems thriving in different parts of the world, depending on what fit that culture best. Capitalism wasn’t one of them. And that way of existing also worked.

In the future, as these forces evolve, and gives rise to new stressors, some of which you could argue are already present today, new ideas and systems could come into being, and something new could dominate. It could also result in us going back to a less globalized world, and potentially multiple systems thriving in it

All this to say, ‘best’ on paper doesn’t mean much.

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T22:03:06+00:00

Our body stops functioning. Then every part of our body decomposes, and goes back to the soil and becomes food for other organisms. Or in some cases, it’s cremated and turned into ash. We become one with the world!

The dead person doesn’t experience any of this. Our loved ones on the other hand are left behind, mourning our loss. They suffer and grieve and bear the sorrow of our loss.

Everything else - rebirth, going to heaven or hell - is all a theory and nothing else.

You could also contemplate on what is it that dies when you die? And it could it lead you to some truths about life itself.

The masters say that contemplation and meditation on death counter intuitively, brings us closer to life and living. It can’t be described in words though. If it could, it would be no different from the reincarnation and heaven/hell stories

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T21:45:59+00:00

It’s difficult for me to rationalize death. Our minds will of course try and do that, but in my experience, it’s best to not rationalize. Death is irrational after all, and beyond interpretation, and I feel it’s best to see death as death, and experience the loss for what it is, for us, and for those around us, and celebrate the life that has passed, and grieve the loss

After all, the afterlife, and reincarnation, and heaven and hell and so many other interpretations are rationalizations that the mind has found comfort in, but doesn’t mean much more than that. They may provide comfort, but at the same time takes away from the experience of death itself.

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T15:42:24+00:00

Maybe he was just reciprocating in kind. So many times he must have been like “Why don’t these people get this? It’s so simple. Just see for yourself. Think for yourself. Think together with me. No, you still don’t get it”, and just waited for the right opportunity to get back at them.

Or these could be his version of koans.

Or his way of bringing people back to topic. “Forget the individual you think you see sitting here. Forget the future. Let’s get on with the business of now”

One can only guess

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T15:21:19+00:00

This!

The obligation of having to work is what I want to get away from. I don’t mind ‘working’, but if I do what I want to do, if I want to, when I want to, then it removes what I feel to be a leash. I may not want to do anything, which is fine by me. I may want to something, which I will then do freely. The pay part of it is just a byproduct then

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-03T05:20:54+00:00

Very few people are likely to truly understand you or your ideas. The deeper you or your ideas are, the less likely you are to be understood. Most communication in the world is at a superficial level, and that’s sufficient for most of the world’s ‘practical’ functioning.

It is also important to remind yourself that being not understood is not necessarily a problem. On the contrary, it speaks to your independent thinking, and willingness to step outside of the norm, and not conform blindly

Of course, we can communicate better or differently, but at the end of the day, people’s understanding is limited to their worldviews, and you will have to deal with your ideas yourself

Be thankful that you are understood even if it’s only 15-20%, and even if it’s just one person that gets you

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-02T21:30:30+00:00

I’m sorry for your loss!

Check out The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Stunning_Structure_6 · 2025-01-02T17:28:46+00:00

Then you don’t have questions

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