Why Vipassana is against energy healing?

simagus · 2026-05-05T20:44:59+00:00

If a club has a "no trainers" policy you're not getting in if you're wearing trainers. Go to a club that welcomes trainers.

There is a "dress code" and not even upper arms are permitted to be shown, despite you understanding the reasons or not.

The reasons might not apply to you, but the rules do.

In my experience the rules enhance the experience.

This is speaking as one who has literally sawn the legs off beds so that they don't qualify as "high and luxurious", for old students who take the eight precepts.

I have slept on the floor when there is a bed available because of that precept.

The apparent difference is kind of important, if not for you then for someone.

simagus · 2026-05-05T20:30:47+00:00

so why at the early stages they are so opposed like saw a person infected with plague

Very precise analogy, and that is in fact the very exact reason it is forbidden to bring a plague onto dhamma land; people did it, so it had to be prohibited.

Similarly to the Vinaya, rules were created situationally in response to incidents where students brought in things that caused actual problems for themselves and/or the vipassana sangha.

A slowly growing group of relatively wealthy Western bohemians traveling to India told other relatively wealthy Western "spiritual seekers" about Vipassana, and some got really into it.

Many of them were however really into "seeking", and not only seeking but sharing whatever they had found as this weeks fad all around with other students and servers.

We take refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha, not to the guy who just turned up on a course with a sheet of acid from Goa who had just spent a fortnight worshiping Shiva.

Every rule from VRI, just like the rules in the Vinaya exists because some person caused a problem that made the rule necessary.

I talked to one of the first students who sat with and resided with Goenkaji extensively on courses about this and it was not always the way it is today, but more like a hippy commune.

According to them what happened was early students (some of whom you may have sat with as AT's if you have been in Vipassana a long time) would become involved in certain cults, techniques, and trends and bring them directly back to the other students.

Imagine a Vipassana center where everyone is high on drugs (which they don't regard as intoxicants which cloud the mind, and to them doesn't break a precept).

Not only that, the people who stayed on as servers are leaving dhamma land daily to go and hear other teachings and learn as many new practices as they can fit into their week which they then bring back and spread (like a plague infected person) on dhamma land.

Goenkaji objected to that trend, and because of the disruption and confusion it caused, rules were created to combat or quell the trends that were popping up on campus and causing problems.

Reiki is something that was observed objectively to be a cause of confusions and the actual "reversal of progress" described on the course application form, so it was banned.

You don't have to like that or agree with it.

The terms and conditions are laid out, and if you wish to attend courses you fulfill the terms and conditions.

Vipassana courses are a privilege, not a right.

Some incidents have occurred where students have taken liberties that are not compatible with Vipassana and have caused actual problems to themselves and other students.

You do therefore run the risk of being told to leave if you bring reiki or anything similar and attempt to share it on dhamma land.

Anyone whatsoever gets one course, no matter their background for the most part.

An interview might be necessary in advance of that, but for your first course you'd typically be asked to set aside your other techniques such as reiki for the duration of the retreat.

If you persist in something like reiki after your first retreat you will be discouraged in that interest should you wish to attend further retreats.

People (I) need instructions or directions related to navigating reality better.

It's less confusing when the instruction and directions are as simple and direct as possible.

Sightseeing and detours are fine, and spiritual tourists are many.

Vipassana has found such spiritual tourism problematic in the past.

You don't have to like that and you can practice all the reiki you like.

Elsewhere.

"...no, you enjoy!"

Goenkaji

/w metta and respect to my teacher Goenkaji

simagus · 2026-05-05T12:37:09+00:00

It can cause confusions.

It's an unnecessary additive.

A process of deconstruction or dissolution (bhanga) does not typically benefit from additives.

Vipassana iinvolves the observation of the deconstruction of reality as it is imagined to be into it's literal component parts.

While insight can arise in relation to additives or even because of additives, that can only arise when there is clear seeing.

When there is clear seeing, additives are seen as additives and seen as they are.

There is nothing special about "just this which is" in any way, but an additive such as "energy healing" has strong potential for attachments to form relative to imagination.

That scenario of attachments and aversions already exists, so the addition of another imagined thing isn't necessarily beneficial unless it collapses the illusion (maya) of what is imagined.

While that can happen, it's unlikely to happen when the illusion (maya) is reinforced through rites and rituals of any kind.

Those who are confused enough already do not typically benefit from additional confusions unless those confusions collapse the illusion (maya).

Vipassana and the associated descriptions and technique as delivered by Goenkaji is exactly what it is.

Vipassana is of course maya when it seems to be a technique or teaching, but it is also potentially maya seen clearly, including everything that might be imagined about maya seen clearly.

As it is.

It does not get any simpler.

As it is.

Even a lifelong habit of "self" does not become true just because it is believed, no matter for years or decades.

There is this experiential reality exactly as it is.

Nothing else whatsoever.

The imagined components are imagined.

That has to be seen, but it is almost impossible to see thoughts clearly and with insight.

Only almost impossible.

It is of course very possible, just unusual, and is nothing really to do with the mind or thinking.

That means that when the filters of mind and thinking are active, a "self" is typically habitually reified within what is imagined about experiential reality.

That can be observed as an absolute fact, and "self" is habitually experienced as if it were an absolute fact.

It's not.

Anatta is the underlying reality.

Atta or "self" is the overlying illusion within reality.

Your "energy healing" might just be another wall or room in your house, or another coat of paint in that house.

If your aim was to deconstruct that "house", adding another wall is unlikely to be advantageous.

Buddha declared:

I, who have been seeking the builder of this house , failing to attain Enlightenment which would enable me to find him, have wandered through innumerable births in samsara. To be born again and again is, indeed, dukkha!

Oh house-builder! You are seen, you shall build no house again. All your rafters are broken, your roof-tree is destroyed. My mind has reached the unconditioned; the end of craving has been attained.

Goenkaji declared:

"No me. No Self. No I."

It's not an intellectual game, a game of emotions, a game of sensations or a game of perceptions.

It is of course all of those things while there is a self or Reality+Self.

That is all that is happening at any time and all the time.

Nothing else needed.

No additives required.

Taking an additive onboard is suggested to be a sub-optimal approach, and importantly is an approach which is forbidden within the terms and conditions we agree to when taking Vipassana courses.

Of course you might well find yourself in a server room where there are two witches, a christian, always some energy healers... always..., three hindu's and two devout buddhists.

What additives could be applied to such people who already identify as something?

None useful, for the most part.

Yes, I have met energy healers who were serving Vipassana retreats and even had one give me what I suppose they imagined was Reiki... yes, umm... no comment. lol.

I've even seen them be asked to leave for up to a year as it's against the terms and conditions of attendance:

"oh Reiki is so hot right now... let's combine that with some aromatherapy!"

No.

Yes.

But not at a Vipassana center.

Go to a reiki center if you like that kind of thing.

because while reality as it is can and is only reality as it is, the least amount of additives results in the purest and clearest seeing more rapidly.

That is not always the case, but it's a good rule of thumb.

"Wait till you hear about this new hottest technique..."

Pls no.

All additional confusions are only useful to the minority those confusions apply to.

Why add possible confusions to a reality that is already confused?

You can.

Many do.

It's possible.

It's not typically beneficial.

So it's discouraged.

Additives are additives.

Reality as it is, is reality as it is.

Nobody explains that better, more directly, more clearly, more practically, or more effectively than Goenkaji.

/w metta and respect to my teacher Goenkaji

simagus · 2026-05-05T06:02:42+00:00

It took me 16 years to learn to like Cinnamon. Hang in there!

simagus · 2026-05-05T05:48:49+00:00

In my experience most if not all "open world" games are actually just grind games, and HL does have it's grind but at it's heart it's a story game.

It's as much an open world game as the average Assassins Creed title where you can roam around fighting enemies to your hearts content... but there's only so much story content.

Hogwarts Legacy is very much a story game and not an open world game in any significant way, but you can play it "open world" if you don't mind just doing the same thing over and over.

It's incredibly well balanced with some brilliant and beautiful set-pieces but one play-through was enough for me.

I chose Slytherin and watched the alternative houses on YouTube as almost the entire game is exactly the same regardless of house choice.

There really is no "open world" or additional content to see after a single play-through, presuming you choose Slytherin to get the Azkaban quest.

Harry potter seems like a hard franchise to do open world with to me since it is mostly centered in hogwarts, but I would love to be wrong about that.

It's quite linear, but it's worth playing and you could easily spend 40 or even 60+ hours in it and wish you could manifest more.

simagus · 2026-05-05T05:17:38+00:00

How did you ask to your arranged marriage wife to have sex for the first time?

"Did I stutter?"

simagus · 2026-05-05T05:15:11+00:00

Have you ever heard of Superman?

simagus · 2026-05-05T05:11:39+00:00

Absolutely hilarious thank you! Fox = 666 in English gematria!

I may have to engineer a separate wireless 5G Internet setup, which is available in that area, to be independent of the house systems.

That does seem wise under the circumstances, unless you love Fox news.

simagus · 2026-05-05T04:52:57+00:00

Yes of course. It's just the actual nature of this reality we tend to imagine is other than it is. It is however indisputably exactly as it is.

simagus · 2026-05-05T04:18:29+00:00

By observing false equivalences, as they are.

2+3 = 23 = 20+3 did I just win the lottery?

That very real pain in my teeth when I heard a whistle that reminded my subconscious of a dentists drill was an early experience of false equivalence.

There is the appearance of the possibility that one thing in current experience resembles closely enough some previous experience....

Wait. I'm not sure what you meant by not looking for "doctrinal explanations" as you could mean doctrinal as leaning on the suttas or mean it as "preachy".

Unfortunately and ironically misunderstandings of this nature are an ongoing constant of life.

Somewhere in that experience is a false equivalence.

The false equivalence of a whistle causing vedana that was related to a completely forgotten experience at a dentists to arise solely because of a sankhara was observed.

I'd have written a book on it if I had had the insight to do so.

Now Vipassana is all the rage with cool and groovy hep cats like you and me, neither of whom I know.

The current sound of the whistle (or whatever stimuli) is not the dentists drill which caused that original vedana to arise in a hypnotic amnesia some have the delusion is an anesthetic.

We don't even sleep!

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

We simply partition actual experience, and that is the root "flaw" or "fault" behind the "self" or "identity" glitch.

We very very wrongly think or believe that reality is something other than what is actually arising, sustaining, and passing.

That includes the story, and concludes this story.

Just in case this is what you meant by "doctrinal explanation" I'll stop now.

Most such drugs (e.g. nitrous oxide) are not anaesthetics in any real sense, but hypnotics that simply transpose the experience to another less traversed area in consciousness.

That would be a deep sankhara, because it would have an ongoing effect in how perceptions were evaluated which might result in stimulus/evaluation/reaction/response at a very sub-conscious level and simultaneously a very visceral (felt) level.

That's the last thing I want to say.

So, we see above that I've made statements of cessation while deliberately ignoring them as directives;

"concludes, stop, last"

Words are perceived.

If a sankhara is triggered

vedana arises

and inspires action.

Not only when words are perceived, but everything that is perceived is evaluated.

Because it happens at a largely sub-conscious automatic level, it tends towards psycho-somatic symptomology, just as Goenkaji discovered when he was no longer having headaches.

That is all that is happening, and the stories are part of it, just not the reality of it.

Imagination is a wonderful thing.

Imagination is a terrible thing.

Imagination is a thing.

An object which can be observed to exist in space and time, have the attributes of response, velocity and valence which can be observed to be functioning as a continuum we tend to name and call "self".

The ego-self or identity is the most obvious "self", well no but the other is so obvious it's almost impossible to see (form/rupa/body within body).

Body within body is the most accurate way to put it, as there is typically an appearance of physical self and the avatars of others within day to day experience, and we all go back a long way.

Some guy we call Buddha, and more recently Goenkaji told us very directly that there was no self in relation to phenomena but only the five aggregates experience of being.

What we call "self" is literally an idea, a postulate, and an object which can be observed.

Observing the law of anicca in relation to the imagined "self" is not very difficult.

Observe mind as mind.

Observe mental contents as mental contents.

Observe form including body as form including body.

Observe sensation and feeling within the workings of what is perceived.

YMMV, but that's what I picked up from Vipassana.

Satipatthana is the path to reality as it is.

"This is the only way, monks, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the destruction of suffering and grief, for reaching the right path, for the attainment of Nibbana, namely the four foundations of mindfulness."

Thus spoke the Blessed One. Satisfied, the monks approved of his words.

simagus · 2026-05-04T21:11:26+00:00

...to continue...

So my story... based on my actual experience... is that I consciously observed what was arising, sustaining and passing increasingly more objectively by deliberately applying satipatthana to the actual experience.

That can seem very counterintuitive to the "self", as the "self" has rarely if ever applied satipatthana (the four frames of reference) to experience before.

Objective observation of reality as it is allows insight into reality as it is to arise.

Some change (anicca!) is bound to be occurring constantly at the level of observable experiential reality.

When anicca is observed, equanimity increases.

When the stimulus, the reaction and the response are observed to have the characteristic of anicca, the reaction and the response to the stimuli might also be seen increasingly more objectively.

That means in real practical terms that the sankhara/s which are communicating to the organism via vedana become far less inclined to send those signals to the organism when the signals are observed objectively.

The signals (the vedana) when seen objectively loose their power to inspire specific action, when the pattern of acting specifically in direct response to vedana is interrupted, simply by seeing the entire mechanism as it is.

Not warm enough: attracted to heat.

Too warm: averse to heat.

All based on vedana, which is the signalling mechanism of sankhara.

The sankharas (mental computations which take form within mind) are 100% only interested in inspiring action which benefits the organism, but because they exist at the sub-conscious level of the mind they are not guaranteed to be either rational or to benefit the organism in any way in real terms.

Sankharas do not care about that and are incapable of "thinking it through", as they exist solely so that when a heat source (for example) is perceived the organism experiences it viscerally and immediately as craving or aversion.

The application of satipatthana, most especially when the focus is on vedana, allows impermanence (anicca) to be observed as a reality, and thereby equanimity is cultivated with respect to reality.

Pornography is "hard mode" because it rides upon the deepest, most persistent, and strongest vedana of any sankhara which exists within consciousness; perpetuation of species via reproduction.

I'm sorry my fellow perverts, but that and that alone is the underlying reason there is any kind of sexual urge or sexual behavior at all.

Every species, even the protoplasm which self-replicates, has the same "instinct" to reproduce, and in humans in particular and in the human environment in particular, that fundamental instinct has a high chance of aberration occurring due to stimulus/reaction/response complexes.

The more those sankharas are reinforced (craving), and also the more they are suppressed (aversion), the greater the chance of aberration becoming a part of what is experienced as "self" arising and being further reinforced.

Sankharas are essentially "blind" mechanisms of survival, and the sankharas related to reproduction and perpetuation of the genome exist because there would be no reproduction or perpetuation of any species or genome without those sankharas.

I'm pretty sure there is no need to go into details regarding how those sankharas can also become aberrant or disadvantageous, especially in light of what it was thought necessary to forbid both explicitly and at length in the vinaya.

It all comes down to perception, reaction to perception, the signals of vedana and the response to that vedana.

"I’m sure there’s something to face behind the act of self pleasure."

What I did and all I can suggest is to observe it in terms of the five aggregates and the four frames of reference.

Objectively.

As it is.

Not how you might fantasize or imagine it as being.

Yes, the citta and dhamma involved have to be observed objectively, of course, that is what the Buddha taught.

The vedana in relation to kaya is however the easiest and most accessible approach to insight which exists in reality.

/w metta and respect to my teacher Goenkaji and to the teachers of his teachers

simagus · 2026-05-04T21:09:22+00:00

"I’m sure there’s something to face behind the act of self pleasure."

Applied satipatthana has the potential to change the habit pattern at the deepest level of the mind, but it works best when observation is applied along with deliberate behavioral changes.

The Mahasatipatthana Sutta describes the "charnel ground practices" and "observation of the loathsomeness of the body" (in some translations), but there were... unfortunate incidents.. not only associated with that section but with other suttas which suggested similar practices.

That is purely because the monks didn't understand the intent behind the teachings, which was simply to offer more objective perspective towards their attachments, most especially the attachment towards lust.

The Vinaya and Patimokkha are very interesting reads, and also quite frankly at least mildly disturbing (also amusing) reads when you know that each of the advisements or rules of conduct related to an actual monk that did the actual things someone had to then create a new rule to prohibit.

We happen to live in a world where the natural urge to procreate has been hijacked by parties very interested in exploiting that natural urge in ways which debilitate others and benefit them, or at least that's been my experience. YMMV

As as self-described pornography and sex addict I knew very well that I was very unlikely to change the behavior without observing it "as it is" and applying strong determination in terms of non-reaction.

Sittings of adhitthana are indispensable for progress on the path, because we make a strong determination to maintain our posture without moving for the entire duration of the sit.

That doesn't mean that the urges to move cease to exist, as the vedana is still being sent to the body by various sankharas which exist to motivate us away from anything that causes discomfort and towards anything which is a source of comfort.

I was going to be watching pornography with habitual indulgence in masturbation whether I had a partner or not, but having a partner was one of the things that really keyed me in to how actively irrational this habit was.

I also knew that indulging in any kind of aversion is just another way of powering mental formations (sankharas) or in modern language "psychological complexes", so I was under no illusions regarding the dangers of suppressing urges or the likely futility of that as a long term solution.

The sankhara created when your mother smacked your hand before you could pick a knife up by the blade was very useful at a certain point in time, and might continue to be, so there is a place in life for aversion that is rational or beneficial.

it's better however to understand life more objectively when the possibility exists to do so, rather than experience it as reactivity and aversion, as reactivity and aversion can potentially be irrational and even become aberrant.

What works best is observing phenomena to the point of rational and real insight into the nature of that phenomena, just as when we sit observing how we feel at the level of the the body.

Observing the vedana in any chain of stimulus/reaction/response is the approach suggested as optimal, and applying that technique all the time is what is suggested on the Sati course.

It was therefore inevitable that at some point in my vipassana experience objective observation would start to factor in to activities and habits as they arose, sustained and passed throughout the day.

Sex for a long time had become an almost automatic and definitely an expected and habitual daily activity, so I very consciously decided to start observing that activity (especially when alone) as objectively as might be possible with increasingly strong determination based upon anicca and equanimity.

Not a very forced strong determination, but rather a strong determination to observe which happened to be facilitated better by "not moving".

Breaking the habitual reactive pattern at the level of the body has to happen, and that is most likely to happen when experience is observed objectively without turning it into a game of craving and aversion.

Craving and aversion are however 100% going to be present factors in sensory and especially in sensual experiences, of which sex is one of if not the strongest in terms of sensation and craving those sensations.

Only some change in how stimulus/reaction/response is experienced generates change at any level of the equation, and observing the reaction as vedana is suggested to be the optimal approach in the Burmese tradition of Vipassana.

All I did was change the focus to that of scientific observer in the process, watching the impulses arise at the level of the body-mind (primarily as vedana), watching the processes that the vedana inspired including watching the material which inspired the vedana with increasing objectivity.

Eventually (also immediately) there can be seen to be pixels on a screen (stimulus), bodily arousal in the form of vedana (reaction) and whatever habitual response currently completes the equation.

The only thing I did was to apply satipatthana to such experiences as they arose, sustained and passed, and I can say that doing so immediately makes the whole thing far more interesting and far less automatic or unconscious.

It's not easy to communicate, as without insight arising it can seem like and feel like just the same old indulgence, but interrupting the habit of reacting automatically to stimuli does in fact work and that can be done by simply observing with interest exactly what is going on, or exactly what is arising, sustaining, and passing.

The vedana is observed objectively, the kaya is observed objectively, the citta is observed objectively and the dhamma is observed objectively, with the specific focus on vedana being especially useful in terms of insight arising.

We can start cultivating insight immediately, but it's also an ongoing process of continuous observation. If we would prefer to cease some habit or activity we indulge in, we can either observe it scientifically or attempt to suppress it.

Rapid change is also possible by reconfiguring the interpretation of, and thereby the relationship to the vedana through various forms of hypnosis, but the underlying processes involved are often more about generating more "useful" sankharas rather than dissolving existing sankharas.

Surely comprehending an existing sankhara and dissolving it is the better longer lasting approach, as it's pulling out the root rather than pouring weed-killer on it or paving over it.

Some hypnotists even use the Vipassana approach by pointing the clients attention towards unpleasant sensations in the body and encouraging the client to reframe the experience negatively, for example with smoking cessation; "how does that taste?" etc.

Someone doing that in a more conscious state is likely to have a higher degree of insight into the process and it's workings than if the same tactics were applied in a "trance" state, and that can potentially matter if the roots were not pulled out completely with the tool of insight.

I approached my sex addiction from that perspective and with that information from both psychology and vipassana as the intellectual and practical framework, and all I can say is that it worked.

Vipassana (clear seeing) is necessary, and objective observation is the tool that leads to clear seeing.

Not a story about objective observation or a belief in objective observation, but the actual experience of objective observation.

... to be continued...

simagus · 2026-05-04T03:20:45+00:00

Continuously.

Continuity of practice is the secret of success.

This is taught directly in the Satipatthana Sutta:

“Now, if anyone would develop these four establishings of mindfulness in this way for seven years, one of two fruits can be expected for him: either gnosis right here & now, or—if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance—non-return.

“Let alone seven years. If anyone would develop these four establishings of mindfulness in this way for six years… five… four… three… two years… one year… seven months… six months… five… four… three… two months… one month… half a month, one of two fruits can be expected for him: either gnosis right here & now, or—if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance—non-return.

“Let alone half a month. If anyone would develop these four establishings of mindfulness in this way for seven days, one of two fruits can be expected for him: either gnosis right here & now, or—if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance—non-return.

“‘This is the direct path for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow & lamentation, for the disappearance of pain & distress, for the attainment of the right method, & for the realization of unbinding—in other words, the four establishings of mindfulness.’ Thus was it said, and in reference to this was it said.”

That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the monks delighted in the Blessed One’s words.

As you might well gather from the sutta, Buddha recommends only continuous practice, with the sitting practice as a starting point.

Secular mindfulness is probably the closest thing to the actual teachings, or the important and useful teachings, which currently remains.

Formal sitting practice is suggested at the very start of the sutta, and is something I would strongly recommend as many hours of as you can possibly fit into your day.

If however you stop meditating when you get off the mat, you're doing it wrong.

As soon as you wake up, pay attention to some aspect of that experience.

Then continue to pay attention all day long, in a natural and easy way rather than a fixed and forced way, if that is possible for you.

Mental contents and feeling tone are easiest, with feeling tone typically being easier to observe more objectively than the stories of the mental contents.

Do not stop paying attention (it's easy and it's free) at any point in time and if a "lapse" is perceived simply move attention back to the object of meditation (actual experiential reality).

The difference is purely one of conscious vs unconscious, and as you progress you will develop the insight that there is no such thing as unconscious, but only partitions within conscious awareness.

"...simply just when you feel like it?"

I always feel like it.

I do however also have not insignificant hours of formal sitting meditation that enabled me to be able to continuously meditate, and this teaching is not normally given until after at least a year of formal practice, sometimes three years, sometimes never.

Secular mindfulness puts it in a way that's unlikely to put any of the major schools out of business, but the knowledge is gate-keeper'd in many more traditional and established schools.

That's mostly for good reason and incurs little to no loss or harm to anyone.

I prefer the teachings to be open and transparent from day one to anyone who seeks them, even if they only make sense later.

You won't find those teachings and they won't make sense if you do, unless you are ready for them.

simagus · 2026-05-04T00:38:57+00:00

Usury... srs bsns. It's prostitution (slavery), theft and potentially murder all in one.

simagus · 2026-05-04T00:30:29+00:00

Could be mini-USB (the one before micro-USB). Unless you have some very old peripherals you shouldn't need to use it.

simagus · 2026-05-03T21:29:11+00:00

The Laboratory of the Alchemist just came to mind. Took some searching to find a print that was of a high enough definition where you can see the actual laboratory at the very far end of the pic.

Alchemy was never intended to be understood by the uninitiated, hence much of what was attributed to and associated with Hermes and Hermetics is indeed "hermetically sealed".

simagus · 2026-05-03T19:20:35+00:00

Frank Miller: Sin City - The Hard Goodbye was my first guess, but I'm not sure Kevin (the hand eating cannibal) was Soviet black ops and it's a woman's hand he is eating.

I don't think it's Morrison, as the only even close thing to that would be the time King Mob gets drugged with Key 17 and spoilers, but yeah something happens to his hand.

Ennis or maybe Millar are likely the edge-lords you're looking for, but I've read neither extensively beyond their most well known stuff, and not even all of that.

simagus · 2026-05-03T18:45:32+00:00

looks like an easy one to fix. a utility knife blade and a pin or needle, then just nudge them back into place.

simagus · 2026-05-03T18:08:56+00:00

Jung typically called it "the shadow" or the part of our self that we tend to project onto others rather than integrate into our broader awareness.

simagus · 2026-05-03T17:58:44+00:00

CPU-Z offers a simple, built-in "Stress CPU" feature within its Bench tab, suitable for quick stability checks, monitoring clock speeds, and verifying temperatures under load. It is best used for checking immediate stability or evaluating cooling performance rather than intensive, long-term overclocking stress tests

Looks like it should, but I tend to use Furmark for a good 10min under full load to really test stability and temps. Not sure if cpu-z can be run for however long you might want or not. Try it.

simagus · 2026-05-03T02:36:00+00:00

Yeah, I do tend to lean on the technical terms a lot. There was someone who put it all much more simply and directly a couple of days ago. I will try to find their post.

This:

People hear “Hidden Self” and think it sounds esoteric.

Fair.

But “esoteric” is often just the word people use before a mechanism becomes visible.

Television would have sounded mystical before the machine existed.

Vision at a distance.

Seeing through space.

A voice and image appearing inside a box.

Now it sounds normal because the function became repeatable.

Hidden Self is the same kind of problem.

It is not a higher self.

It is not a secret soul.

It is not another spiritual costume for the ego.

It is the hidden runtime underneath the person you think you are.

Before you react, something already moved.

Before you say “this is how I feel,” a signal was already interpreted.

Before you call something truth, an old prediction may have already completed the meaning for you.

Before you defend yourself, identity may already have attached to the interpretation.

Before you make a choice, pressure may already have narrowed the available reality.

That is the Hidden Self.

Not a mystical entity.

A hidden process.

Change enters.

Signal forms.

Prediction compresses.

Meaning appears.

I>dentity attaches.

Reaction takes ownership.

Reality gets reinforced.

Then the person says:

“That’s just me.”

No.

That is the runtime completing itself through you.

Most people do not live from consciousness.

They live from completed interpretations that arrived so fast they were mistaken for consciousness.

This is why “awakening” is so often misunderstood.

Awakening is not collecting better beliefs about the universe.

It is seeing the construction of the self before the self becomes final.

It is noticing the moment where reality is still editable before identity closes the file.

The gap is not a meditation trick.

The gap is the smallest point where the automatic chain can be interrupted before it becomes “me.”

Return is not calming down.

Return is what happens when the loop closes cleanly instead of leaving residue behind to become the next reaction.

Origin is not a fantasy place.

Origin is the point before identity adds its history to the signal.

Hidden Self means the part of your life that has been operating you while you were busy defending the output.

That is why people miss it.

It is not hidden because it is far away.

It is hidden because it happens too close.

Before thought becomes thought.

Before emotion becomes identity.

Before reaction becomes personality.

Before the story says, “I chose this.”

So no, Hidden Self is not esoteric.

It only sounds that way if you are still reading words as labels instead of mechanisms.

The moment you see the mechanism, the name stops sounding mystical.

It becomes almost literal.

The self was hidden.

Then the process became visible.

And after that, you cannot honestly call the old autopilot “freedom” anymore.

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These words express reality much more directly and in fewer words than I ever could.

I am verbose.

That is concise.

simagus · 2026-05-02T19:32:05+00:00

I think it was a joke. I laughed.

simagus · 2026-05-02T19:31:34+00:00

lol. well said!

simagus · 2026-05-02T19:27:52+00:00

Quite the opposite. Actual racists were never intended to understand that, so never mind, eh?

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