orasis

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by orasis 13y ago
Confirmation bias. This is hack pseudo-science.
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by orasis 13y ago
This article is bullshit. I have never in my life experienced anything more stressful than running my own software company and being responsible for making payroll.
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by orasis 13y ago
Its Always Sunny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ8G2s--1zA
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by orasis 14y ago
So? Why should progress be a goal in and of itself? Shouldn't progress be in the service of something else? If that something else is solving unhappiness, then why do you have a problem if unhappiness is solved through other means and pr
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by orasis 14y ago
Awesome unique value proposition. Well done! :-)
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by orasis 14y ago
So the author failed and isn't good at empathizing with people...
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by orasis 14y ago
The result for me is that there is no fear of death because there is nothing there, thus nothing there to fear. If experience returned again, that would be fine too. Basically it doesn't matter either way since nothing exists outside of th
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by orasis 14y ago
I had 9 months of intermittent practice prior to one month of more hard core practice. Its very doable.
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by orasis 14y ago
WTF
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by orasis 14y ago
This book changed my life. Read it! It is the most important thing you can do today.
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by orasis 14y ago
A minor nit: Many people can reach deep insight by meditating intensely for a week or less, not a lifetime. Testimonies of Deep Insight or Knowledge of the Arising and Passing - http://thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-this-is-in.
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by orasis 14y ago
I'm also curious about the facts, at one point he sates that 30mg of LCD was measured out, which is a pretty insane amount of LSD from my understanding.
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by orasis 14y ago
To be concrete and explicit, my experience with death via vipassana is to notice gaps in experience where there is absolutely zero experience occurring. I've found this especially effective while falling asleep. If you get lucky, you'll b
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by orasis 14y ago
An insane and incredible book that I highly recommend reading is "A Heart Blown Open", the autobiography of a crazy Zen master / LSD manufacturer Jun Po Denis Kelly. Its the most unreal life I have ever come across. http://www.amazon.com
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by orasis 14y ago
The "pragmatic dharma" crowd does a pretty good job of this. Daniel Ingram's book, "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" represents a nice collection ( http://integrateddaniel.info/book/ ) There is also a good pragmatic map of awake
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by orasis 14y ago
The insights available through meditation and psychedelics are insights into the workings of conceptualization and the odd subject/object split we habitually do with thought and language. Being able to experience reality below the lens of
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by orasis 14y ago
I am building a hardcore vipassana app based on the noting technique. You can sign up for the beta at http://mindblownapp.com/
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by orasis 14y ago
My friend, Kenneth Folk, permanently cured his depression through vipassanna meditation. I would not suggest that it could be a widely applicable cure, but in his case, it worked, so it is possible. http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/01/bg
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by orasis 14y ago
Write down this number, call it! 1-800-273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Hotline