BUDDHISM: The Three Signs, or Trilakṣaṇa — All things are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All things are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All things are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’
Three Signs, or Trilakṣaṇa: All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity. (dharmas means ‘things’)
By basing meditation practice on the Three Signs, we can achieve nirvana.
This is the simplest or shortest way to describe Buddhism. It appears to also be the most ancient way to describe Buddhism. This basic description is historically attested to within approximately 100 years of the Buddha’s passing.
The Noble Eightfold Path is also an excellent way to describe and understand Buddhist practice. It is not historically attested until several centuries after the Buddha’s passing.
Buddhism is a living tradition which develops and responds to new information and societal differences. Something that is true and helpful, like the Noble Eightfold Path, is good Buddhism. Buddhism is not based on sacred texts but on mind-to-mind teaching and insight, both philosophical (the Three Signs) and experiential (samadhi/ nirvana).
The Three Signs include duhkha, which is often misleadingly translated as ‘suffering’, or worse, ‘lifelong suffering’. The much better translation of duhkha is ‘badly standing’ or ‘unstable’. With this in mind, the Four Noble Truths may be considered slightly misleading since the First Noble Truth is often called the Truth of Suffering. The Four Noble Truths are not attested historically until several centuries after the Buddha’s passing.
Nirvana and deep meditative states are something we experience.. There is no substitute for this experience. All of Buddhist practice is aimed at experiencing nirvana. Nirvana can be attained in this life. ABN
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An opinionated observation:
Bayesian belief or perspective in some respects possibly co-relates with FIML as both are able to update expectation based on accumulating data insight, particularly as a kind of Thomas Kuhnian or Zen insight. The more reductive method of scientific expectation cognizes realization, reality, as statistical summaries across repeated events. These two types correlate, in degrees, to Kantian Noumenon and phenomenon, and to his notion of categorical decisions.
Beginning with Cantor’s Uncountability and Power Set Theorems, then Godel’s two Incompleteness Theorems, and Tarski’s Undefinability of Truth Theorem, it is presently accepted proof in logic-mathematics circles that there is no earth-touching mudra Truth gesture within “Human, All too Human” ratiocination. Cf Wittgenstein’s “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Both Gautama’s mudra and Jesus’ comparable “mudra” of Silence standing in the “What is truth?” Biblical scene witness to a Truth-claim of Mind re which human inquiry thereat Cantor, Godel, Tarski, et al. have satisfactorily shown to be coincidentally incomplete and therefore indefinite.
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I completely agree with paragraph one above. That is precisely what FIML does and it is in line with both ancient and modern philosophy and modern mathematics and science. As for paragraph two, I also agree with it but want to add that Buddhist practice provides a fundamental experience, which is typically lacking in Western philosophy. That experience is the experience of the samadhi states, including nirvana which is the purest of the samadhi states. If we use words to describe nirvana, we might say it is the experience of pure awareness of pure consciousness. It is the knowable and observable ‘going out’ of delusion, leaving the experiencer with nothing but pure awareness. This is an attainable state in this life, achievable through meditation. ABN
The keys to public/private health and better lives are clean water, sanitation, fresh food, and good hygiene. Vaccines have historically played a minor/tiny role at best
You need to see this chart. The keys to public/private health and better lives are clean water, sanitation, fresh food, and good hygiene. Vaccines have historically played a minor/tiny role at best. The reason we keep talking about them constantly pertains almost entirely to industrial interests.
Razi Ann Berry on Naturopathic medicine w Aaron Siri
Berry breaks down the key differences and similarities between conventional and naturopathic doctors—and explores the profession’s history and its post-pandemic surge and growth.
Victor Marx: The Man Who Weaponized Faith. | Candace Ep 329
solipsistic circus
all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN
Psychological optimization
Why settle for not being crazy when you could be going for psychological optimization?
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a diagnosis of a behavioral or mental pattern that can cause suffering or a poor ability to function in ordinary life.
Why settle for being able to “function in ordinary life” when you could have an extraordinary life?
Why take pills to get by when you could be optimizing your brain?
Humans go for optimization whenever we can. We optimize technology, our diets, our medical treatments, our educations, even our friendships.
Optimization: an act, process, or methodology of making something (as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible.
Hell yeah. That’s what you want for your mind, your life. Why settle for less?
OK, that does read like a sales spiel, but I will deliver.
All you have to do is put time and thought into the process of optimizing your psychology. An optimized psychology is an optimized brain and life.
First, you have to learn how to do FIML.
This requires about as much time and effort as learning to play a musical instrument at a beginner’s level. About as much time as it takes to learn to drive a car. Or to learn to play pool well enough to enjoy it.
FIML takes less time to learn than a semester at school, whatever grade. Less time than most job-training courses. Less time than becoming a decent amateur cook. Less time than buying a house or redoing your kitchen.
The hardest part about FIML is learning the technique through reading. Start here: How to do FIML.
The second hardest part is having a friend or mate who is willing and able to do it with you. Sadly, this is a deal-breaker for too many people.
I hate saying this, but it is fairly normal for people world-wide not to have a friend who is close enough to do FIML with. This is the result of so many non-optimized psychologies in this world!
Many people have five or more “good friends” and a loving spouse, but not even one of them willing or able to do FIML.
Their excuses will be they can’t understand it, don’t want to bother, don’t want to be that honest, don’t want that kind of relationship, don’t have the time, already are doing it (no, you are not), etc.
The result is they and you will continue to languish in less than optimal mental states. Moods, alcohol, pills, arguments over nothing, ridiculous misunderstandings, ominous silences, severance of ties, and worse will rule your world(s).
For most, the best relief they will find are self-help books based on generalities, career books about “getting ahead” as defined by more generalities, nonsense about “loving yourself,” low levels of religious belief and practice, exercise programs, etc.
You didn’t learn to drive a car that way. Driving a car requires interaction, observation, the help of another person.
Your psychology needs similar kinds of input.
Once you have learned to do FIML with a trustworthy partner, the practice will tend to self-generate because the insights gained will be real and have real and deeply felt benefits for both partners.
Besides the “how to” and FAQ links at the top of this page, most posts on this site describe some aspect of FIML practice.
For psychologists, I honestly do not see how you can claim to be able to treat other people if you have not done at least a few years of FIML practice. Human interactions without any technique for consistent meta-control and understanding (which FIML provides) are 100% guaranteed to be riddled with misunderstanding and wrong views.
Interoception, proprioception, and perception of dynamic mental states
Interoception means our “perception or sense of internal body states,” including the states of our cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems among others.
Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.” We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.
Both interoception and proprioception generally refer to physical states of the body though, of course, how we interpret those states may involve much more than immediate physical considerations.
Erroneous interoception or the misinterpretation of internal states is is generally thought to be an important contributing factor to many psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and more.
Consider some other levels of interoception—our states of mind; our mental impressions of other people and of ourselves; our senses of our own psychologies.
These levels of psychological reality are normally accessed through introspection, meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy. All of these methods are good, but each of them lacks ongoing, real-time input from another human being, thus missing the dynamic functioning of the human mind in real-life situations.
FIML corrects this problem by providing objective, dynamic access to real-time psychological functioning. FIML is a method or tool for optimizing human psychology by honing our perceptions of our mental states as they actually function in real-world situations.
Kaiser guidance for newborn vaccines: ‘Avoid saying it’s optional’
Someone inside Kaiser sent me the below internal guidance concerning shots and medications for newborns.
It tells Kaiser employees that the “approach to how we introduce and administer routine newborn … Hepatitis B vaccine” is to ” avoid saying ‘it’s optional’ or ‘you can refuse’ unless directly asked” and to tell parents that “we will be giving” instead of asking consent to give. This is the antithesis of informed consent. Yet Kaiser calls it “excellent patient and family care.”
Jewish Supremacy has no borders. It has no party affiliation, it has no morality. It will be and do anything for total control — Dan Bilzerian
Jewish Supremacy social engineered leftwing policy to divide and conquer the host nation with activist causes that
>Destroyed white birth rates
>Destroyed white male economic status
>Destroyed white familiesTo weaken the host nation and make it easier to control and steal from.
Jewish Supremacy then social engineered the right wing into dividing and conquering their enemies in the middle east through
>Zionist infiltration of Churches
>Islamic terror false flags (911)
>Blackmail / corruption networksTo send the young men who can’t afford to start families to die for them in the middle-east.
Jewish Supremacy has no borders. It has no party affiliation, it has no morality. It will be and do anything for total control.
He is leaving out covert violent attacks against rivals, especially when they are young. Attacks range from low dose poisoning to lobotomies to murder. I am not sure if Dan is aware of the scale of these attacks, but am confident he is smart enough to figure it out. Covert attacks by an army of infiltrators are extremely difficult to prove or even notice. This is especially true when attacks are directed against young people before their careers begin. Trump right now is showing conspicuous signs of possibly having been cognitively damaged or discombobulated by a targeted energy weapon or some other means. Keep this in mind the next time you see a more or less normal friend go bonkers. Our normal reaction is to assume they are losing it, started drinking or using drugs or are simply going crazy. Rarely does anyone suspect a covert attack designed to disable or control the victim. I am not saying this is definitely the case with Trump. I am saying he is an example of what you might see happening to a loved one, relative, friend or colleague. The person becomes a weird deranged version of what they were because that is how the mind is affected. From that information, most of us wrongly assume the person is simply devolving into some core state that we may or may not have thought was there. Our minds seize on simple reasons for the victim’s demise and rarely wonder if something sinister is being done to them. Consider how almost everyone is viewing Trump right now. How many suspect he may be a victim of covert violence? ABN
SPLC exposed
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Drumming up hate against Jews and pretending there is hate against Jews where there is none — these are a major Jewish Supremist modus operandi with deep historical roots. ABN
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