Philosophical Speculations

Ooops... my sincere apologies, Dana No worries ... Speaking of identity fluidity, wondering now, what's the problem with exploring and playing at the role of being a 'doer', or say a 'co-creator' ~ so long as it's not reified as some exclusively fixated, segregated, suffering-prone entity/identity ...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:19 pm ...you 'misgendered' Dana! I may have to report your comment to Dana for that one

Ooops... my sincere apologies, Dana

Blame it on the boogie... and the English language. In my native language you would have been been exposed through grammatical gender

'It' thinks it is liberating itself. However it is more accurate to say that conditions have transpired to allow for self enquiry. I'm sure that while you're typing on the keyboard you can completely dissociate and look at the letters appearing on the screen and say "there - that's the state o...

With the belief in doership, we always have a nagging sense that life could have been different than it was or is. All human suffering arises when that could becomes a 'should'. Wants or desires are not the problem - it the false idea that life 'should' go 'our' way. It is quite correct to say that...

if one believes that one's 'self' is a living extension/expression of All -Creating / Ever -Flowing Brahman, one's thinking and choice/decision-based actions will be calm/secure/easy-flowing/seemingly-happening-without- personal -'effort'/at-' home '-among-others/etc. I would like to ask you someth...

In my language 'attention' is huomio , and to 'take into consideration' is to ottaa huomioon . The still aspect of attention grows by the moving aspect bringing more content and context into attention, revealing new relations, old trauma etc., feeding positive loops and soothing and releasing negat...

Dana hits the point here. In a similar sense, here: Society could be less predatory if people got over the illusion of free will. words like "could be ... if ..." should have absolutely no meaning if everything is predetermined at the Big Bang. But anyway. The problem is of completely diff...

Attention on some general level of experience is constantly moving. The experiment suggested was not to keep attending some thought-object, but to "chase" attention itself with attention. Is it possible to "directly" catch attention so that it stops moving and stays still or imm...

Brad Walker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:16 pm Should pay day loans be legal? Should soft drinks be sold in schools? Etc.

Sorry, I really feel dumb in this moment
I still don't get it. Soft drinks would be illegal in schools if everyone believed that free will is an illusion?

Question is purely empirical ;) OK. Empiricism it is :D Attention is a more elementary act of cognition - we simply observe a perception and experience certain meaning in relation to it - its concept/idea. In this sense, it is the same to ask if attention can attend itself or if thinking can think ...