> The mind can be a contributing factor but it is absolutely not necessary. Injuries that you're entirely unconscious of can cause significant levels of stress which are measurable. You're making a division between mind…
The mind is more than the brain. Dualism is proposing that there is a clear division between mind and body, which is your original claim that I'm debating.
> Injuries that you're entirely unconscious of can cause significant levels of stress which are measurable. The unconscious is the mind too. Body and mind are interdependent, without mind the body would be dead.
There's a famous quote, paraphrased: If you can, meditate for 10 minutes a day. If you're too busy, then meditate for 30 minutes a day.
If your body is ill and needs surgery, the aftermath of the surgery can make you feel worse for a while. Likewise, if not understood well, not accompanied by proper understanding (which is a symptom of the western…
The mind is the brain and the body. Stress is generated by the mind when contacting external objects, or when reliving past trauma. There is no such thing as an external source of stress. You can't measure how much…
The real source of stress is the mind.
In that analogy, compassion and love are the oxygen. If you hold on to anger and defensiveness in order to "fend for yourself" it's like failing to put on your oxygen mask because you hold on to your valuables, thinking…
The first step in looking after yourself is getting to know your own mind.
> Understanding emptiness > The other points are valid to me, this one belongs in the realm of metaphysics for me. Isn't this something both the Buddha and modern science agree on? Matter if comprised of mostly empty…
The other practices also have an effect on your body and mind, you just don't bother verifying it for yourself because you want an external authority to do it for you first. You don't need to buy into the esoteric…
I've done vipassana retreats where they play audio files from Goenka's instructions. You can do the same with a phone. I've used analogue timers to determine when to get up from my session. Please explain the difference…
I hope the day comes when you realize how stupid this comment is, and even more so how stupid it was to hit the reply button :)
From direct observation, people who are persuaded astrology tend to know a lot of people. You could say a sort of map to observe and predict relationships across all the people you already know and all the people you…
I think the fact that you find other people's beliefs frustrating says more about yourself and how you deal with the world than about the value of those beliefs. Emotional intelligence is real, and being easily…
The belief that you're a completely rational being is irrational in itself. If that's the belief you hold about yourself I guarantee you can find a friend or acquaintance who can point out contradictory and irrational…
ok sheldon
I'd not be surprised if people who are extremely intolerant of astrology have much lower emotional intelligence than people who believe in astrology. Astrology's biggest role is drawing a map of how people relate to…
I think it's more "tolerate other people's harmless views". After all, science has undeniably caused more harm to the world than the belief in astrology.
We can also harm and destroy a lot more than we could a century ago.
point 3 seems just made up to me? Like. Why? Here's another take: Everything is changing and being changed. There is no "first" because the universe is not linear. And ultimately there is no actual division between…
This is a fun proposition and I thought about this often, but in reality it's not really that fair to ask that question if they don't know you well, in the same way someone might fail to guess your exact age or…
The "suffering equation" is to me the weirdest rationalization. Whether that is true or not, I think it's more important to keep in mind that it's not our place to judge that, unless you hold some biblical belief that…
The mathematics of black holes and quantum mechanics would be incomprehensible to a mind before written language because you'd be missing a lot of levels of abstraction and imagination. To assume that things must look…
Ants don't know they lack conceptual thinking. There can be some perspective or perception that we simply don't know that we lack. For example if there's life that exists across 7 spatial dimensions instead of 3, how…
> The mind can be a contributing factor but it is absolutely not necessary. Injuries that you're entirely unconscious of can cause significant levels of stress which are measurable. You're making a division between mind…
The mind is more than the brain. Dualism is proposing that there is a clear division between mind and body, which is your original claim that I'm debating.
> Injuries that you're entirely unconscious of can cause significant levels of stress which are measurable. The unconscious is the mind too. Body and mind are interdependent, without mind the body would be dead.
There's a famous quote, paraphrased: If you can, meditate for 10 minutes a day. If you're too busy, then meditate for 30 minutes a day.
If your body is ill and needs surgery, the aftermath of the surgery can make you feel worse for a while. Likewise, if not understood well, not accompanied by proper understanding (which is a symptom of the western…
The mind is the brain and the body. Stress is generated by the mind when contacting external objects, or when reliving past trauma. There is no such thing as an external source of stress. You can't measure how much…
The real source of stress is the mind.
In that analogy, compassion and love are the oxygen. If you hold on to anger and defensiveness in order to "fend for yourself" it's like failing to put on your oxygen mask because you hold on to your valuables, thinking…
The first step in looking after yourself is getting to know your own mind.
> Understanding emptiness > The other points are valid to me, this one belongs in the realm of metaphysics for me. Isn't this something both the Buddha and modern science agree on? Matter if comprised of mostly empty…
The other practices also have an effect on your body and mind, you just don't bother verifying it for yourself because you want an external authority to do it for you first. You don't need to buy into the esoteric…
I've done vipassana retreats where they play audio files from Goenka's instructions. You can do the same with a phone. I've used analogue timers to determine when to get up from my session. Please explain the difference…
I hope the day comes when you realize how stupid this comment is, and even more so how stupid it was to hit the reply button :)
From direct observation, people who are persuaded astrology tend to know a lot of people. You could say a sort of map to observe and predict relationships across all the people you already know and all the people you…
I think the fact that you find other people's beliefs frustrating says more about yourself and how you deal with the world than about the value of those beliefs. Emotional intelligence is real, and being easily…
The belief that you're a completely rational being is irrational in itself. If that's the belief you hold about yourself I guarantee you can find a friend or acquaintance who can point out contradictory and irrational…
ok sheldon
I'd not be surprised if people who are extremely intolerant of astrology have much lower emotional intelligence than people who believe in astrology. Astrology's biggest role is drawing a map of how people relate to…
I think it's more "tolerate other people's harmless views". After all, science has undeniably caused more harm to the world than the belief in astrology.
We can also harm and destroy a lot more than we could a century ago.
point 3 seems just made up to me? Like. Why? Here's another take: Everything is changing and being changed. There is no "first" because the universe is not linear. And ultimately there is no actual division between…
This is a fun proposition and I thought about this often, but in reality it's not really that fair to ask that question if they don't know you well, in the same way someone might fail to guess your exact age or…
The "suffering equation" is to me the weirdest rationalization. Whether that is true or not, I think it's more important to keep in mind that it's not our place to judge that, unless you hold some biblical belief that…
The mathematics of black holes and quantum mechanics would be incomprehensible to a mind before written language because you'd be missing a lot of levels of abstraction and imagination. To assume that things must look…
Ants don't know they lack conceptual thinking. There can be some perspective or perception that we simply don't know that we lack. For example if there's life that exists across 7 spatial dimensions instead of 3, how…