You're in prison. Some days good, some bad, but always prison. Everyone you know is also in prison. Most don't know they're in prison. Some know, but insist prison is fine. Some sell keys that don't work. This is the Truth of Dukkha. Your refuge is nirvana. What is nirvana?
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Replying to @ifIknewIdtellya
No mystery, although for those still attached to experience, it's difficult to accept. Nirvana is insentience. Out like a light.
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Replying to @KennethFolk @ifIknewIdtellya
Can you contrast your use of ‘awake’ in your pinned tweet with your interpretation of ‘nirvana’ that you use in this thread please?
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Replying to @techgnostic @ifIknewIdtellya
If you've got the time, my 3 conversations with
@OortCloudAtlas explore this question in detail. Briefly, nirvana is absence of experience. Awakeness happens during normal waking consciousness. Conflation of these two very different phenomena is a common misunderstanding.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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I recently relistened to those, which are great. I’m curious how you relate this to CONR? Is there a functional distinction between the suffering of the machine - so to speak - and the suffering of ‘dukkha’, as in the formulation you’re using here?
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Replying to @misen__ @techgnostic and
The suffering of the machine and human suffering are functionally equivalent. Both require consciousness, ownership via phenomenal self model, negative valence, and realness à la
@ThomasMetzinger. Dukkha means that while you may not be suffering now, you will eventually suffer.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Yes, I really like the CONR formulation. I guess some of the confusion around the various uses of nirvana is that some traditions use it to mean that the necessary conditions for suffering aren’t present (eg: dissolving ownership and negative valence via some non-dual stuff).
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Replying to @misen__ @techgnostic and
Yes, later interpretations of Buddhism have defined nirvana as something you can enjoy while also getting what you want. Fair enough, I say, but let's also preserve the original meaning of nirvana as "lights out" & hence peace. You won't be there to know about it.
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