MetaSage

all that calibration method and the scale sounds plain silly. In lectures he would tell his wife something and whether to resist or not. But overall I agree that he was a wise, conscious guy. Lovely teachings.

Getting a sense of how powerful teaching is for oneself and why it is an incredibly effective learning strategy.

Interacting with others puts you "out there", forces you to reach out and to listen to another's experience, helps learning, improves communication and clarity, allows for deep sharing, intimacy and vulnerability, etc.

Subtitle: anal sphincter experiences and considerations.

Perhaps the subject-object dynamic appears to be. So, in the same way that within a dream, there's no object that falls nor a subject who carries out the action.

What is aligning thought with feeling? How to do so? How to feel empowerment, then? Since I'm only thinking about it. I feel explanations are sometimes too concise, that I find hard to grasp.

Ok, I thought you meant something else with the full cup. Feeling. In any case you could try to answer from different angles or in different ways, and elaborate sometimes. Giving the answers and one-pointers may not be very useful in certain cases. What effect does that create on others? I'm not precisely the most indicative example of succinct and integral expression but English isn't my first language. Just some feedback on your facilitation.

you think you can intellectualize the matter but what you said is plain bullshit, this is too.

well, being upside down while dropping an object makes it seem like it's falling up. come on guys help me out here with some examples ;I 😄

what is the cup full of? how come is it full? what is that state about? how come that is usually the opposite -- incapacity -- of our experience?

Senses themselves are there for survival. What you say goes out the window when you see a tiger approaching you. As a self you know you're unable to defend yourself in that specific case. Just so when it comes to the whole domain of self-survival. An emotion is thought first before it's felt. It's a thought that is emotionally-charged. Notice your experience. Well, self is an experience that we have. This fundamental sense of incapacity is underneath that experience. This is a context in which we exist. and one that we suffer as a backdrop for our self experience. No matter what we do, think, or say, we still don't have absolute capacity -- to get what we want, to make the world exactly like we want it, to create life or existence, to be "god". This does have a profound impact on the experience of being a self. It defines what's possible and determines the tone and parameters, so to speak. How could we, and when do we, feel capable as beings?

can't come up with anything at the moment

in another planet it might fall up or go sideways, in space it does something different.

if you drop an object, it falls down.

how so? it's a fundamental aspect of being a self, of self-existence. We don't experience ourselves as "Gods". We inevitably entertain core doubts about our capacity to manage our own lives as we want. And of course the ultimate "proof" of incapacity to a self is that its task of surviving is doomed to fail from the beginning. How is empowerment an emotion? Then it can easily come and go, as in in one moment I feel bored, and in another I don't. Let's say it is an emotion. In that case then, it shares its basic origin with the sensation or aspect of incapacity since emotions are based on thought, even though they don't seem to be.

would appreciate some clarification. I assert that it's not a concept but a pretty fundamental aspect of self-existence. Your breathing and senses themselves are predicated upon this drive. Notice you didn't experience creating the universe or how you came to exist, you don't know how to turn out life the way you want, you don't experience yourself as "god."

@Phil okay thanks healthy reading!

Nah, probably a lot of pretension going on. Forums are useful but also superficial forms of interaction. Eventually people will show themselves authentic, or keep hiding it. But judge it in a case-by-case basis. But yeah, on the other hand, it's pretty good overall, as the other forum. Don't forget this is smaller and younger, and their authors have a different style where they don't show themselves and expose themselves so much on video. Good forum!

A sense of incapacity is implicit in self-survival. In our experience we don't know how we came to exist, we didn't create the universe, there are core doubts about our ability to manage life. we don't feel capable to create life, to have what we want, etc. this is self-existence. How to change that sense from one of incapacity to one of capacity? what is empowerment?

Interesting. Goes to show how models influence our conception of the world. And yet the world has been it regardless of the model.

@Phil appreciate it.

@Phil This?

To clarify, you're pointing to making a distinction between concept and experience -- to becoming aware of what is conceptual and what is direct experience?

This one? Okay. is the question how could there be alignment & well being therein? Let's try that. How so? What is it? How would you label it?

That, too. And ideals. Let's not assume that since this is a "spiritual" group, manipulation doesn't take place. And don't conflate or bring up the absolute when it comes to relative matters. It's useful to be grounded on the assumed reality of these kind of domains, such as survival and business.