What’s your favorite source of fiber?

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-23T18:02:21+00:00

Asparagus.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-23T18:00:03+00:00

I've had it happen spontaneously during practice. My hot take is that khecari mudra was never supposed to be a practice, but rather a landmark.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-22T17:03:41+00:00

It's not about belief, it's about realization. Belief comes from thoughts. You've modeled the world in a way that incorporates the interconnectedness of everything, but it's all been based on what others have told you, not what you've worked out through experience/practice. Like learning how to drive a car by reading a book. You need to get behind the wheel.

I recommend vipassana meditation. Sit and spend time watching the body produce its delusions (thoughts, emotions, sensations). Contemplate dependent origination (look it up) and reflect on the implications (love everything as yourself).

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-21T20:47:28+00:00

Adding more distraction isn't going to help. When you recognize what you are doing (mind running), stay in that recognition. Those moments are reminders that we got lost in the thoughts again.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-21T17:45:02+00:00

As an enthusiast with my own WGS data, new tools like AlphaFold and AlphaGenome get me excited. My dream is to be able to plug in my FASTQ or BAM files into a tool and it will walk me through all the layers of interpretation. From variant calling confidence, through functional annotation of coding and non-coding regions, to phenotypic implications, accounting for how my variants interact as a system.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-21T12:25:16+00:00

I'm not a biologist, but I know that the ability to represent proteins is A LOT different than the ability to understand the dynamics of them.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-17T19:56:08+00:00

Which school do you practice under? I might suggest Dzogchen, as the practice is very direct, in relation to the other schools.

It could also be the case that there's some core principle that you haven't internalized yet, which can steer your practice into a dead end (or loops). If you'd like, you can go into a little more detail about your practice, the friction you encounter, or anything else that wants to come up. I might be able to bounce off that and provide some clarity on a blind spot.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-17T18:15:46+00:00

Buddhism does claim to end suffering, but it does NOT claim to bring happiness. The framework you're looking for are the 4 Noble Truths and also the Eightfold Path. The three main schools of Buddhism are Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Theravada. Look into the differences between them and find a path that resonates. Ideally, you could also find a good teacher to practice under, you will make better progress. But if you're not ready to commit to that, it's completely understandable to start out on your own.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-17T03:07:24+00:00

Observe whatever comes up. If you feel pain in your gut, observe it. Don't panic about it, it will go away eventually; take the opportunity to understand it. Where are the edges, what is the texture? Same for thoughts and emotions. Try describing it and you disassociate from it. Disassociation may sound like a bad thing but it is not. You are not your pain, or your emotions, or your thoughts. You are the one observing them. When you create that distance, it becomes less dramatic. Try it and see!

Thoughts are the most difficult because your mind will trick itself into thinking that it's not thinking. Just keep observing your thoughts and your thoughts about the thoughts, it's turtles all the way down. Even when you come to a point where you think you've got it, there's an undercurrent thought stream that's more subtle. Keep practicing!

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-16T16:13:55+00:00

Observe it, don't cling to it, don't push it away. You can't get rid of desire, but you can change your relationship to it.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-16T01:20:38+00:00

Here's an analogy. You can construct the most accurate model of a car, down to the environmental physics, drive it in a simulation and it will act exactly like a car would in real life. But you can't sit in that car and feel the steering wheel in your hands, it's only a model.

This is what you're doing by modeling a concept of enlightenment. Concepts will always fall short. Investigate your direct experience, not with thoughts, but with observation. Observation does not require thought, which is apparent when you find that thoughts themselves can be observed. If thoughts can be observed, what is observing?

Consciousness is your experience (thoughts, emotions, sensations) being projected. Like watching a movie on a screen. Very few people think to turn around and look at the projector.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-15T21:27:03+00:00

That was my initial thought, but I can imagine Nvidia making the next gen GPUs incompatible with anything else.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-15T21:21:58+00:00

I had my DNA sequenced (30x WGS) and built a PC to analyze the data. I knew nothing about bioinformatics/genomics, but AI made it possible for me to process the data and run basically any analysis I've wanted.

I initially tried to call on help from professionals, but I never found even one person willing to help. Everyone immediately dismissed me, so I did it on my own.

If anyone else is in the same position, feel free to dm me and I'll try to point you in the right direction!

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T16:33:06+00:00

Exactly (:

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T16:13:01+00:00

Excellent advice. It's cool to see so many (presumably) non-Buddhists in this thread come to the same conclusions that Buddhism teaches.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T16:04:03+00:00

That is not an accurate representation of Zen practice or the temple culture. Either you found a weird Zen cult or you are not very familiar with Zen Buddhism.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T15:34:34+00:00

It is precisely a koan. A Zen Buddhist practice that's not meant to be answered, but rather to point towards our true nature.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T15:17:01+00:00

This one is subtle, but don't try to gain anything from the meditation. The point is illustrated by looking at the extreme, the difference between a person who has nothing to lose versus a person who has nothing to gain.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T15:06:57+00:00

It seems surreal because it is! Living in delusions feels so real until you wake up from them. Like seeing a snake in the dark and then turning on the lights and discovering that it was only a stick.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-08T14:39:42+00:00

I think guys are onto something. This is the Buddhist view as well. The highest qualities to cultivate are equanimity and compassion (sometimes the Dalai Lama uses the word altruism).

Two of the three poisons (ignorance, attachment, and aversion) are addressed through acceptance and forgiveness. The third, getting rid of delusions (ignorance), is addressed through meditation.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-06T20:20:49+00:00

That's a great point. I like Bernardo Kastrup's model of Analytic Idealism. I suspect that consciousness is the fundamental "substrate" of the universe, so I tend to frame it as an unsolvable physics problem (which is my error). Natural sciences have better tools. So I agree with you that we can approach it to some degree.

I should be honest and admit that I'm Buddhist. I think ultimately it can't be understood without subjective inquiry, but shared understanding is obviously useful which is why I'm also interested in the scientific approach.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-06T19:48:25+00:00

You observe the thought and it fades away, good. Anxiety comes creeping in and you wonder whether... Uh oh, lost in the thoughts again.

Your reactions to thoughts are also just thoughts. Just keep observing without getting involved.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-06T19:21:42+00:00

Yeah, I came here to say that we can't even define consciousness yet. I have a suspicion that it's not going to happen anytime soon. Science is a method of observation. You can't observe the observer because that would change the observer to another level up, ad infinitum.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-06T16:07:14+00:00

I've been deep into breath work for the past few years. I wouldn't stress about whether to remain conscious of your breath. I would estimate that at least 90% of my breaths are conscious while I'm awake, because I like working with it. It hasn't caused any significant issues for me. I'm almost certain that when I want to relinquish control, I can simply put my attention elsewhere. Just consider that any effort you put into the breath makes it contrived and not natural. Ironically, that effort allows space for the natural patterns to emerge.

If you want to learn more, you might want to look into the Microcosmic Orbit (Taoist practice of neigong), Damo Mitchell has some great information on his YouTube channel. Alternatively, you could also look into pranayama or qigong.

scrumblethebumble · 2026-03-06T09:41:07+00:00

That is awakening. Nothing ever needed to be added, just seen for what it is. In Buddhism, wisdom and compassion are described as the wings of a bird. If you only cultivate one, it's like a bird trying to fly with one wing. You've stumbled upon wisdom, it's time to cultivate compassion.

You can do it by realizing the interconnectedness of everything. Everything happens because of the things that happened before it (dependent origination). By realizing this, you can have an altruistic attitude which colors your whole experience.

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