EntAspirant
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.
Joined Apr 2022
"Buddhism is nothing more than a method that facilitates the unraveling and overcoming, by each individual, of each's distinctive configuration of conditioning.
The soteric dimension can only be effective to the extent that it addresses and alleviates the particular, distinct situations of individuals."
the song of triumph of the ascending soul.
"I am the God Atum, I who alone was.
I am the God Rê at his first splendor.
I am the great God, self-created, God of Gods,
To whom no other God compares."
"I was yesterday and know tomorrow;
the battle-ground of Gods was made when I spoke. I know the name of that great God who tarries therein."
"I am that great Phoenix who is in Heliopolis, who there keeps account of all there is, of all that exists."
"The mystic in religious ecstasies put himself on a plane with the stars, just as a saint of the Middle Ages put himself by means of the stigmata on a level with Christ.
St. Francis of Assisi expressed this in a truly pagan manner, even as far as a close relationship with brother sun and sister moon.
The old belief removed the becoming-one with God until the time after death; the mysteries, however, suggest this as taking place already in this world."
"The person, that is to say his conscious "I," is a play-thing, a feather whirled around by different currents of air;
sometimes the sacrifice and sometimes the sacrificer, and he cannot hinder either.
The Book of Job shows God both as creator and destroyer. Who is this God?
A thought which humanity in every part of the world and in all ages has brought forth from itself and always again anew in similar forms."
Carl Jung
good morning all. there's still a 🌞. i had forgotten how it looked after weeks of grey.✌🏽🖖🙏🏻
"simultaneous sensations get blurred together as referring to unified objects and subjects,
but temporally discrete sensations also become ‘unified.’
For instance the belief arises that the apple I picked up and bit is the same apple I continue to eat,
and finally the eaten apple was one integral object just as the eater was one integral subject."
These psycho-linguistic cognitive errors are errors precisely because they are inferences displacing actual perception."
continued ⬇️
good morning everyone 🙏🏻✌🏽🖖
busy breakfast crowd this morning.
2 red squirrels have established themselves, one has claimed the peanut feeder, the other likes to stay close to the lilac tree.
METAPHOR in SCIENCE
"The question which concerns the philosopher of science is how to understand the role of metaphor in science—
what theoretical or methodological function is to be ascribed to metaphors in scientific language.
A short answer to this question, I believe, can be found, emblematically, in the title to a well-known article by Richard Boyd (1979): "Metaphor and theory change: what is 'metaphor' a metaphor for?"
no entire pdf🫤 but a topic of interest
"If consciousness of blue is 'seeing blue', then consciousness of seeing blue is 'seeing {seeing blue}', i.e., seeing that one sees blue.
If it is seeing. blue but it is not conscious of seeing blue then, it is argued, there is no real seeing blue at all.
As Santarak~ita put it in his Tattoasarpgraha, if one does not know that one knows then the consciousness itself is unknown.
If the consciousness itself is unknown then it could not know other objects."
calling another Jimmy.
this is the end, the only end, my friends.
now thrift stores have embraced greed.
"The examples of questionable pricing at Value Village have been piling up for months.
In Courtenay, B.C., one shopper found kids shoes priced at $6.49, while the original tag said $3.
A used book at a store in Winnipeg was being sold for double what it would have cost at its previous retailer."
calling Jimi Hendrix.
purple haze alert.
"When sunlight has to pass through more layers of atmosphere — or in this case, the suspended water droplets that make up the fog — some of the colours, especially the blues, get scattered out, leaving the reds and oranges and pinks to reach your eyes."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pink-purple-fog-kelowna-penticton-1.7100456
#Teddy fans, he wanted to smell the rain last night, so his wish was fulfilled.
"That which is spoken of as appearing to itself is the subjective aspect.
That which is spoken of as appearing as the object is the objective aspect.
That very objective aspect which has taken on the aspect of the object is explained as the object of the subjective aspect.
Therefore, the experience of the objective aspect by the subjective aspect is explained as the meaning of 'selfawareness'.
Thus what is called self-awareness is a separate subjective aspect."
awareness is a möbiusloop
"consciousness has a twofold appearance.
It appears to itself and it appears as the object.
The consciousness which appears as the object-having taken on the aspect of an external object-
becomes an object for the consciousness which appears to itself."
ALERT FOR MUSICIANS‼️
bad actors stealing uploaded music for resale.
"The guys in Bad Dog, a folk duo from Washington, were not hoping to get rich off the album they recorded last summer. David Post and Craig Blackwell wanted a CD to give away.
But not long after “The Jukebox of Regret” was finished in July and posted on SoundCloud, nearly every song on it somehow turned up on Spotify and other streaming platforms."
good morning all✌🏽🙏🏻🖖
#Teddy goes for a midnight stroll, to check on the wildlings' feeding area. it's breeding season for opossums too.
"Every instance of ‘contact’ is immediately perceived as either pleasure, pain or neutral.
The person (pudgala, P. puggala)—insofar as ‘person’ is merely a designatory label (prajñapti) for the karmic stream (santāna)
produced by and producing pain and pleasure—develops and is conditioned by the repeated experiences of these positive and negative reinforcements,
viz. enjoyment and hurt, reward and punishment, etc."
out there
dog carrying long stick found on walk. joy arises.
thinking, no "i" necessary
awareness is reflexive.
EntAspirant
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.
Joined Apr 2022