There's a specific experience that comes to mind that reduces the "need" that often drives people to have more and more experiences(or knowledge)https://twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1240853864355528706 …
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Noble pursuit of experience often is either out of a desire to understand the world, or to build empathy. As the above thread shows though, it's very difficult to combine everything into a coherent model that isn't schizophrenic in some form.
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THE experience that can unravel this isn't a sudden magical coalescing insight that ascends you into the light. It's the much more mundane "I'm not in control" feeling that can be achieved just by examining how breath works. (breath is conscious & subconscious)
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Intellectual appreciation like "I don't manually control the production of ATP by mitochondrial cells." doesn't do it. It has to be a visceral feeling of "I'm not in control." of a life critical process like breath.
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Once one gets a foothold into this feeling via breath, it can be expanded to larger and larger surface areas of life. Some even seem to live life in a perpetual state of flow. The *critical* part though is the initial foothold, not the final state(so stop worshipping it)
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If you can feel how *not* in control of you are, then you can forgive even cannibals and murderers even if you cannot or do not want to trace through the exact tangle of social and biological experiences that created the situation.
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It's an acceptance of how reality works. "This is how it has to be because this is how it IS."https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1306370274539888640 …
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The computer metaphor with rewritable memory is wrong! Blockchains are a far better metaphor. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/blockchains-never-forget/#content:~:text=The%20message%20of%20the%20medium%20is,on%20a%20notion%20of%20artificial%20forgiveness ….
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One interesting thing to try to control is the actual degree of control you need. This has asymmetric results. If you control yourself to be more in control, you make it easier to be in control so you ratchet upwards into a control freak.
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On the opposite end, the less you try to be in control the less you can actually maintain that heading. You can't "force" yourself to be "non-forceful". The most you can do is blindly follow some robotic heuristic of moral non-forcefulness that eventually becomes invalid.
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Another way to say this is that the opposite of war is not peace but the forgiveness that is the highest form of acceptance which leads to equanimity. https://ncase.me/attractors/#article:~:text=Let's%20see%20some%20not%2Dfishing%20examples%2C%20to,a%20powerful%20way%20to%20understand%20systems ….
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Equanimity implies "no change NEEDED" but doesn't mean inaction or apathy. Dropping "need" often leads to the best result.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340449814098558977?s=20 …
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