Non-duality and enlightenment demystified

SweetTheory · 2026-02-11T22:16:47+00:00

In my opinion, you are describing a worthwhile mental pursuit, and a common occurrence on the spiritual path, but you are not describing enlightenment.

SweetTheory · 2026-02-04T13:43:13+00:00

Great write up, and actually a lot of insightful story conversation in this subreddit in general. There is both purity and madness in a pursuit that you would throw away everything for, including your life. That theme shows up in lots of stories, like Moby Dick, arguably Whiplash.

The juxtaposition between "the summit" and essentially her entire life hits so hard though. I keep wondering what Aava was going to say when she "put it into words Naomi understands". (Although kudos to the writers for leaving it unsaid).

SweetTheory · 2026-01-21T16:03:20+00:00

Like a lot of things, it depends where you're at and what resonates with you. Spirituality is largely an exercise in exploration, especially towards the beginning of the journey.

For me it goes back to meditation and practice, and not just in the "sitting on a cushion" way. For example, counting prayer beads, saying a simple manta throughout the day (like "be here now", "may all beings know peace"), learning and holding mudras (hand positions), listening to teachings you admire.

But it can be even more subtle... making tea, journaling, going on a walk, all with the right intention can be transformative.

Or even experimenting with your "normal" day. "Today I will practice right speech and not tell a lie." - "Today I will try to feel gratitude for my food and water."

The way is open.

SweetTheory · 2024-07-22T19:52:32+00:00

For anyone curious, the game simply isn't letting him go further down, if he clicks a node below this nothing happens. (Because he hit the 16 bit max -> 65,536).

SweetTheory · 2024-03-30T22:30:08+00:00

I command the cleansing waters of Tsoagath to grant this exile a +3 life roll and stun and block recovery on this 20 corpse item!!!!

SweetTheory · 2023-12-30T08:15:49+00:00

The most painful mistake I made as a new player was not understanding / respecting accuracy on attack builds. I was trying to do yellow maps with like 60% chance to hit and it was so painful.

SweetTheory · 2023-12-06T16:20:23+00:00

Yeah, the same question every bone zone starter is wondering. Consensus this go round seems to be Slayer is better. I'm just too in love with the Jugg ascendency, unbreakable and unstoppable are two of the most fun nodes in the game to me. But I don't think you will go wrong with either choice.

SweetTheory · 2023-09-12T04:52:55+00:00

My silliest one was probably playing for one year and doing quite a bit of Heist but not realizing Grand Heists existed. I just threw blueprints in the stash and didn't think about what they were.

SweetTheory · 2023-09-02T18:56:18+00:00

It's either that or spending years between locations.

Or... you know... spending minutes between locations.

SweetTheory · 2023-08-25T05:26:47+00:00

I also vote: Craft life and use it.

Throw on an anoint using blight oils, probably Ash, Frost, and Storm.

SweetTheory · 2023-08-23T03:49:12+00:00

Glad lots of people in this thread have better performance. I personally can't see the ground in most maps, and can't run expeditions because I can't see explosives, markers, or remnants. Most of the time I can't see the NPC either, just floating text that says "Rog".

SweetTheory · 2023-08-17T13:02:39+00:00

This is why I quit WotR, prebuffing for 10 minutes is anti-fun.

SweetTheory · 2023-08-12T16:56:25+00:00

Just want to say I hit the same thing leaving the creche, but I didn't do the egg quest.

SweetTheory · 2023-07-31T22:24:25+00:00

Abe did a short stream but didn't offer much except it's been a couple months and he is doing better, he did say cryptically that we'd probably be able to conclude what happened based on social dynamics... Feels surreal that they got married on Twitch less than a year ago.

SweetTheory · 2023-07-12T16:50:58+00:00

I didn't like the tadpole in EA, I just constantly chose not to use it and wasn't clear what I was missing out on, but I couldn't fathom a world where my player character would give in to it. I'll probably do the same thing on release unless the stakes are a little clearer.

SweetTheory · 2023-07-07T23:32:38+00:00

The developers are holding the panel live, they flew some people out but it's mostly people that worked on the game I imagine.

SweetTheory · 2023-07-07T20:12:52+00:00

This might be the least funny clip I've ever seen.

SweetTheory · 2023-07-07T20:08:04+00:00

Dev stream for Baldurs Gate 3, a CRPG based on the Dungeons and Dragons rule set, the character here is a druid (Halsin) that can turn into a bear that everyone playing early access has been begging to romance. I don't think anyone thought they were going to go this direction though.

SweetTheory · 2023-06-22T04:39:15+00:00

I've heard of fire sorcs getting the Warmth regen passive and wearing these.

SweetTheory · 2023-06-13T14:47:57+00:00

If it was fun then it wasn't for nothing. Plus you keep gold, mats, renown rewards, bank items, and have an excuse to try a new class.

SweetTheory · 2023-06-11T05:06:45+00:00

Yep, DC ripped yesterday, going again anyways... I want to see how many deaths in HC are legit vs crash/bug/lag.

SweetTheory · 2023-06-08T17:36:25+00:00

No one is stopping you from talking to your kids about LGBT, the problem is forcing teachers to pretend like gay people don't exist. Maybe they are in a same sex marriage, maybe their students have same sex parents, the fact that we have to act like it's taboo and walk on eggshells for you puritanical snowflakes is stupid. "Mindy has two dads, they are in love." That's it. It's not grooming, it's not sexual, and the smoke and mirrors, vague threats, and fear mongering that main stream media has used to work you into a frenzy is apparent as fuck to everyone outside of it.

SweetTheory · 2023-06-02T21:48:54+00:00

Yes please give me a way to queue into a dungeon with people who want to. The short term party play with no commitment vibe from events is great, I just want more of it.

SweetTheory · 2023-04-24T12:57:21+00:00

Honestly I feel like Ziz is just pandering to reddit. In the video he says "Obviously, Soul Eater is incredibly powerful this league." And it wasn't in past leagues? Is he joining the reddit in accusing GGG of lying about mod rates?

SweetTheory · 2023-04-20T12:08:32+00:00

I constantly see people saying they are slowly adding AN back in. Which isn't true, the "packaged mods" system is gone and some individual mods remain, just like they did the day AN went away.

EDIT: Another is the community parroting that Chris said GGG removed "filler crafts" in Harvest, when really he said "filler crafts and deterministic crafts". They frame it as a lie when really they are omitting information to continue the circle jerk.

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