Einstein famously said. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rationale mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift…” Language is part of the rationale mind. It’s ability is very limited in subjectively understanding objective reality. That being said language is still a useful tool to navigate your way through life so long as you are aware of it’s limitations and delusional nature. Unfortunately language has gotten the best of us and arguably causes just as much harm as good especially in the postmodern era.
This is just wonderful. Thanks. Hmmmm ... sounds a lot like Chat GPT and it's user to me. Most treacherous post modern something I can think of. And even so I must admit that on occasion I have enjoyed baiting CGPT and then laughing at it's response - which is - to laugh at myself!
Yes, that's correct: the response of a GPT is only as good as the input of the prompts given by its user, so it's kind of like a mirror of intelligence. But that's for now, only. Soon the user will be irrelevant.
I do a bit of parenting coaching and postmodernism ideologies have distorted the role of the parent - leaving kids completely disconnected from reality
This is not abt this video its about the great book that you published, and it's amazing and also as a buddhsist follower by birth I couldn't reach this much deeper to this illusionary self, and herewith requesting to make an explanation about universal consciousness which was slightly mentioned in the book also. Thanks 🙏 ❤
I've always understood Eastern religions/philosophies to be just a stealth form of nihilism _exactly_ because they say "you are not your so-called monkey mind." So what are we? Something _beyond_ our thoughts, they reply . . . alluding to some greater, deeper "Buddha nature" thingy. Great. And so you get the New Yorker cartoon where two depressed women are in a bar drunk, and the one says to the other, "He could see the Buddha in me, but he could never see me."
So true! Every word is a imagination, a illusion. Some words point to real material things, but are never the real thing itself. And there are a lot of words which are complete imagined and created from the story telling mind like "fool" which have no material representation. You can never exactly define what a "fool" is. Also the meaning can change. And the greatest illusion is that this part of the brain which had learned language thinks it is this living organism called human 😂
@@ralf.starke Still, what you are saying is nothing but illusion. It’s not real, and you cannot define a word you just said, according to your theory. So why bother saying anything?
@@mprado4177 You are right, I can’t tell the truth trough words and language. The truth can only be seen by consciousness when the mind is silent and no thoughts/words are present. But nevertheless words are pointers, they can help to understand the truth.
@@ralf.starke But this is the problem that you face: if you claim that words cannot provide any real message or be defined (because they are illusions) then the words you just used, such as something as convoluted as "truth", "consciousness", "mind", "silent", "thoughts"... etc, can only point to what your theory claims: illusions. Thus they can only point to the fact that there is no truth, and no consciousness outside the illusion. And trust me (or don't, since words are meaningless according to you), I am in no way participating in those illusions you are mentioning.
Language is only a branch of sensory illusion that we may choose to use to communicate reality to others. Limited to our own species , language gets even smaller. Observation and understanding of changes through awareness, brings clarity of physical reality. It doesn't have to be complicated through language,.. but can be simplified by it, if conveyed in a proper setting,. the modern world ,.. is infected, by controllers of institutions, and the mind is made mad by temporal control mechanisms that divorce the person from reality or even how to glimpse it. They erased natural time knowledge. Or at least tried to with a high degree of success, but not total. If someone thinks today is Saturday,.. they are infected. Prognosis is dim.
So does any “ism”, like, for example, Communism, Capitalism, Materialism, Romanticism, Realism, Buddhism. Every “ism” is an abstraction that is only real in the mind.
I agree that a sad majority of people use words that do not correspond to the laws of the physical world we are part of. Let me write a small list of them: -"Reality" -"Post-Modernism" -"Consciousness" -"Meditation" -"Error of misplaced concreteness" -"Vicious abstractionism" -"Sin" (intellectual or otherwise) -"Intrusive thoughts" (or nonintrusive) -"Anxiety" -"Depression" -"Eastern philosophy" (or Northern, Southern, or Western) -"Brain cravings" (left or right 'one") -"The unknown" (or known) This is only a small fraction of the words you just used in this video or in others. I can keep going, but I think I've listed enough to ask this question: Where in the world can you point to me that will unequivocally show the meaning of those words, in the same fashion as when the word "water" points to the actual liquid? P.S: This is a true question, not meant to be rhetorical. If I could get an answer to that question, then I have another one, but the second one would be useless without addressing this one first.
Someone once told me the trick is to be more body and less mind. Seems truer than ever to me after listening to this vid
Interesting. I’m going to experiment with that. Thanks.
Einstein famously said. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rationale mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift…”
Language is part of the rationale mind. It’s ability is very limited in subjectively understanding objective reality. That being said language is still a useful tool to navigate your way through life so long as you are aware of it’s limitations and delusional nature. Unfortunately language has gotten the best of us and arguably causes just as much harm as good especially in the postmodern era.
Don't think everything you believe
This is just wonderful. Thanks. Hmmmm ... sounds a lot like Chat GPT and it's user to me. Most treacherous post modern something I can think of. And even so I must admit that on occasion I have enjoyed baiting CGPT and then laughing at it's response - which is - to laugh at myself!
Yes, that's correct: the response of a GPT is only as good as the input of the prompts given by its user, so it's kind of like a mirror of intelligence. But that's for now, only. Soon the user will be irrelevant.
I do a bit of parenting coaching and postmodernism ideologies have distorted the role of the parent - leaving kids completely disconnected from reality
This is not abt this video its about the great book that you published, and it's amazing and also as a buddhsist follower by birth I couldn't reach this much deeper to this illusionary self, and herewith requesting to make an explanation about universal consciousness which was slightly mentioned in the book also. Thanks 🙏 ❤
Thank you
I've always understood Eastern religions/philosophies to be just a stealth form of nihilism _exactly_ because they say "you are not your so-called monkey mind." So what are we? Something _beyond_ our thoughts, they reply . . . alluding to some greater, deeper "Buddha nature" thingy. Great. And so you get the New Yorker cartoon where two depressed women are in a bar drunk, and the one says to the other, "He could see the Buddha in me, but he could never see me."
I love it!! 😂🤣
So true! Every word is a imagination, a illusion. Some words point to real material things, but are never the real thing itself. And there are a lot of words which are complete imagined and created from the story telling mind like "fool" which have no material representation. You can never exactly define what a "fool" is. Also the meaning can change. And the greatest illusion is that this part of the brain which had learned language thinks it is this living organism called human 😂
What are you saying? What’s an illusion? What is “is”? What part of the brain? Whose brain? You are not making any sense.
@@mprado4177 I mean the words in your and all other humans brains in the brain part which is called language center.
@@ralf.starke Still, what you are saying is nothing but illusion. It’s not real, and you cannot define a word you just said, according to your theory. So why bother saying anything?
@@mprado4177 You are right, I can’t tell the truth trough words and language. The truth can only be seen by consciousness when the mind is silent and no thoughts/words are present. But nevertheless words are pointers, they can help to understand the truth.
@@ralf.starke But this is the problem that you face: if you claim that words cannot provide any real message or be defined (because they are illusions) then the words you just used, such as something as convoluted as "truth", "consciousness", "mind", "silent", "thoughts"... etc, can only point to what your theory claims: illusions. Thus they can only point to the fact that there is no truth, and no consciousness outside the illusion. And trust me (or don't, since words are meaningless according to you), I am in no way participating in those illusions you are mentioning.
Language is only a branch of sensory illusion that we may choose to use to communicate reality to others. Limited to our own species , language gets even smaller. Observation and understanding of changes through awareness, brings clarity of physical reality. It doesn't have to be complicated through language,.. but can be simplified by it, if conveyed in a proper setting,. the modern world ,.. is infected, by controllers of institutions, and the mind is made mad by temporal control mechanisms that divorce the person from reality or even how to glimpse it. They erased natural time knowledge. Or at least tried to with a high degree of success, but not total. If someone thinks today is Saturday,.. they are infected. Prognosis is dim.
Isaiah ch 43: v 18 - 19.
'Forget the former things; don't dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing ! Now it springs up ! Do you not perceive it?
Post modernism sounds a lot like Kellyanne Conway’s “Alternative Facts”.
So does any “ism”, like, for example, Communism, Capitalism, Materialism, Romanticism, Realism, Buddhism. Every “ism” is an abstraction that is only real in the mind.
How can I be convinced, once and for all, that I am not my mind ?
Feelings are a good natural feedback response mechanism to what you like and who you are
I agree that a sad majority of people use words that do not correspond to the laws of the physical world we are part of. Let me write a small list of them:
-"Reality"
-"Post-Modernism"
-"Consciousness"
-"Meditation"
-"Error of misplaced concreteness"
-"Vicious abstractionism"
-"Sin" (intellectual or otherwise)
-"Intrusive thoughts" (or nonintrusive)
-"Anxiety"
-"Depression"
-"Eastern philosophy" (or Northern, Southern, or Western)
-"Brain cravings" (left or right 'one")
-"The unknown" (or known)
This is only a small fraction of the words you just used in this video or in others. I can keep going, but I think I've listed enough to ask this question: Where in the world can you point to me that will unequivocally show the meaning of those words, in the same fashion as when the word "water" points to the actual liquid?
P.S: This is a true question, not meant to be rhetorical. If I could get an answer to that question, then I have another one, but the second one would be useless without addressing this one first.
Saying "there is no truth" is an attempt to say something "true", so there must be truth.