yadingus

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by yadingus 3y ago
> 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 and bo
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by yadingus 3y ago
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.
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by yadingus 3y ago
> 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.
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by yadingus 3y ago
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.
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 approach), it can just be
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 stress an object or
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by yadingus 3y ago
The real source of stress is the mind.
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 someo
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by yadingus 3y ago
The first step in looking after yourself is getting to know your own mind.
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by yadingus 3y ago
> 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 space. It&#x
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 teachings, or ev
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 betwe
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 :)
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 will meet is useful. Co
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 frustrated (specially wh
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by yadingus 3y ago
bazinga
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 behavior of
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by yadingus 3y ago
ok sheldon
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 each other, it
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by yadingus 3y ago
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.
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by yadingus 3y ago
We can also harm and destroy a lot more than we could a century ago.
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by yadingus 3y 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 "chan
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 nationality by just
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 an
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 significantly sim
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by yadingus 3y ago
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 would we
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by yadingus 3y ago
If you're already doing those tasks over and over there is no point in adding them to a todo. When I started using a todo list I was very conceptual about it "this is something that must be done, therefore it goes on the list. But
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by yadingus 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you need your text editor to also be a perfect file manager?
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by yadingus 3y ago
I think you severely underestimate not only how long effects can take to show, but how long and complicated it can be to fund good long term scientific studies. There's this belief that if something has an effect, it'll just show
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by yadingus 3y ago
Wood clogs sound terrible for the health of your feet. There's guides for making huaraches with tire rubber. And there's also barefoot sandals that claim to last a life time (but cost like 100 bucks).

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