Random thoughts thread

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Samsara

You mean life without 24 hour G-man? Accurate.

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Always sounded like a sauce name to me but canā€™t figure out which.

Let me eat some pizza with extra samsara xD

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Aged and grated samsara

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It is getting aged and grated at this point indeed.

Isnā€™t looking very edible.

AI after I send the prompt:

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Whatā€™s the field that goes like tun tun tun tunn

Āæ?

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Patanjali was a dualist with an infinite number of purushas possibly existing.

I am one with everything, like a fart in the breeze.

Sublime wisdom is here. (Just kidding ā€” itā€™s a random thought)

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blood

thanks man

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Those are my pronouns, btw

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Frecking psychics Ā¬Ā¬

Hi there grated :wave:

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btw what does this mean?

Iā€™m so tired of my mind or reality glitchesā€¦I donā€™t know if I have like minimal dyslexia (moving a letter within a name) or names truly are changing out there, Mandela effect and all that.

But yeah in my reality Patanjali had a different name.

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Oh, Iā€™m just spouting off random crap because itā€™s what I do for entertainment.

A lot of people translate Patanjali into an Advaita framework because, after Shankaraā€™s time, it was considered the only acceptable truth for the political benefits that it conferred.

Patanjali, though, is from an older tradition. It didnā€™t involve the dialectics of later philosophy, it was just yoga and samkhya. Work, and basic theory to match personal development. No thought of a singular self was there. He was a ā€œNonā€- Non-Dualist. Everything was relational from a common manā€™s point of view.

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Alright then.

This was useful. Now I donā€™t like the dude xD

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aww lol

Heā€™s my hero. He keeps it real.

But anyways, many things change in history. With different commentaries, we get different ideas. Some take it back to Samkhya, some go forward to Advaita, some take a move sideways to Madhyamakya. A different gloss can move things in many directions. And, in 10,000 years of philosophy, it has frequently been the case that schools have been defined by how they talk past each other lol

I have no investments in doctrines. Itā€™s always better to watch what people do rather than what they say.

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Lots of Brilliant Ideas/Views/Replies are presented in this thread:

https://forum.enlightenedstates.com/t/dont-want-to-be-party-breaker-but/5555/331

I need to fully read it lol.

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I need to read some Patanjali lol, All I know is that he wrote about Yoga, nothing else.

I do have a sample/semblence of an idea when it comes to duality and non duality, so the fact that you called him a dualist amazed me, as Iā€™m used to monism or non dualistic type of thinking coming from Yoga/Yogic Background (but again, I do know that there were some extremely popular dualistic yogis or gurus, one of them from the 9th or 10 century A.D./C.E., if Iā€™m not mistaken).

Also, except for a few Gurus/Yogis, I never remembered them, even if I watched documentaries or read about the (I usually remember something or someone if I study about it/him/her/them for a few times).

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Thatā€™s why I spout random things lol. Iā€™ve been in deep research for quite a few years. Iā€™ve seen enough, that just about every story has another side to it. And so, I bring a contrarian element.

My views shifted in so many ways over the years, Iā€™m not attached to any system of doctrines. I only really care about the persistent reality that all systems attempt to reach.

I liked advaita when it helped people break into a new awareness. I disliked advaita when people used it as an excuse to cause harms that could have been avoided lol.

But, all real yoga is basically dualistic. WIthout dualism, the Telos/End is presumed from thought rather than attained in deed.

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The word union itself presumes an union of 2 things/parties, although maybe they are one, Idk, or 2 pieces of the same puzzle, Idk.

Anyway, I gotta go.

Sleep duties lol.

Good Night. :pray:

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