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by perfmode 6y ago
what do you make of the confessions of sages? respectfully: perhaps, do you prefer to stick to what can be understood from direct experience? i personally can’t help but wonder how it is that many sages in different times and places seem to
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by perfmode 6y ago
according to Ramana Maharshi, disconnecting from the sensory inputs actually causes of the sense of I to disappear entirely. he offers the challenge to investigate in one’s own lived experience whether it’s possible to even maintain the se
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by perfmode 6y ago
> In his undelivered speech "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later," Dick recounts according to the Wikipedia article for “flow my tears… “, The speech was never delivered https://en.wik
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by perfmode 6y ago
> endless stream of characters in it that sound like they're trying to be incredibly profound i fell in love with this piece of art a decade ago. then there was a five-year period during which I felt the same way about the film myse
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by perfmode 6y ago
i like the way you put that: “ self care for the unwilling mystic“
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by perfmode 6y ago
I'll meet you on your terms. Let's look at Huxley. According to his research and the works he chose to survey, what is it that one might conclude he sees as being "the single, metaphysical truth or origin from which all esote
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by perfmode 6y ago
Perhaps a better umbrella for what I am referring to would be non-dualism. i’m referring to Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, and Esoteric Christianity. key figures would then be Patanjali, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Jesus Christ (Gospel of Thomas)
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by perfmode 6y ago
can you provide evidence of the existence (in common discourse) of “multiple versions of Perennial philosophy?”
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by perfmode 6y ago
wow! had no idea his work ran through all of these. thanks for sharing this.
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by perfmode 6y ago
PKD posited 50AD. The perennial philosophy posits there is only one moment. Hence, the quote included in my comment. The quote explains the connection. PKD grazed the truth but fell short, and this is alright.
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by perfmode 6y ago
is there awareness without belief? what is the nature of belief? what is the nature of consciousness? is consciousness the same as thought? is there consciousness without thought?
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by perfmode 6y ago
May I recommend a movie directed by Linklater called Waking Life. > Waking Life is a 2001 American experimental philosophical adult animated docufiction film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of ph
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by perfmode 6y ago
In my humble opinion, PKD was grazing what the perennial philosophy offers to be the Truth of existence. To quote Waking Life: > Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's on
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by perfmode 6y ago
PKD can certainly be credited with reflecting this insight in a form digestible to western audiences. yet this conceptualisation of reality actually dates back thousands of years to Hindu metaphysics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick(web.archive.org)
154 points by perfmode 6y ago|117 comments
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by perfmode 6y ago
with love, at each stage, it is fruitful to inspect the rate-limiting factor. if the body is the limiting factor, then it makes sense to invest in yoga until it is no longer the thing in the way. it’s difficult to confront multiple challeng
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by perfmode 6y ago
came back from a 49-day solitary retreat on march 19th. an assortment of remarks: by far, the most impactful experience of my life. i was the least experienced meditator in the cohort with less than one year of formal experience. 10 days of
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by perfmode 6y ago
sudo vim /etc/hosts include the lines: 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 www.nytimes.com 127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com
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by perfmode 6y ago
It is an appeal to one's Self.
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Ask HN: Does Y Combinator support Black Lives Matter?
5 points by perfmode 6y ago|13 comments
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by perfmode 6y ago
There is certainly some complication in discerning what it means to be a "good hacker."
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by perfmode 6y ago
It is true. One can never know. This is a reminder not to place ego-value in software work, to keep a small footprint, to shed identifications, and surrender into that deeper Truth of our being. Acknowledging the inevitability of fallibilit
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Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley (2015)(berkeleyjournal.org)
1 points by perfmode 6y ago|0 comments
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right now, in the present moment, on might argue that a majority of police in america are presently participating in this cosplay.
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by perfmode 6y ago
> Before the assassination of King ignited days of civil unrest, signals intelligence used computers to help in the government effort to defame King and undermine his cause. Large organizations have always invested in machines like Stret
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by perfmode 6y ago
> There are grass roots protest organizations popping up everywhere that need serious pro bono tech help. If you work on distributed systems or production networks this stuff is stupid simple to you. how can one tap into the stream of in
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by perfmode 7y ago
what it must be like to be in the c-suite at facebook.
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by perfmode 7y ago
anyone aware of low-power ASICs available to DIY to perform inference using pre-trained models?
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by perfmode 7y ago
relative to the ethical facet, it almost feels myopic for me to direct my energy toward the scientific facet of the story. anyone else affected by this?
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by perfmode 7y ago
ever listened to the shure se535?

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