Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt

Exploring experience via Buddh-ish contemplative practice and practical occultism. Audiophile.

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

Good news for AI alignment everybody: the robot considers itself rationalist-adjacent

[Bilious Black @BlakkBile]

Crumps said fascism was like finding police brutality beautiful and the reactionaries all balked at that. The reaction to this latest murder shows just how right he was.

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

Is this Bayes theorem

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

Hegelian dog movie: 101 Sublations

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@ladymcscope In this process, these ways of deconstructing a self can blur together. Normally you take the waterfall and use a thought to label it like a skateboard, but the label is fuzzy so it’s more like France, and if you believe the waterfall == France, buddy, that’s Batman

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@ladymcscope Anatta is less “think of a thing called ‘the self,’ well guess what that doesn’t exist,” and more “look at X, now does X alone constitute a self? Nope”

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@chaosprime @vividvoid HHDL: And that’s why we decided to cease all murder wizard operations effective immediately.

[enter UPS GUY]

UPS GUY: I got a shipment of murder spirits for a Mr. Gyatso? Big box of dudes who swore to kill undesirables?

HHDL: Not the time, Jim!

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[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@myceliummage Friend can you spare an invite

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@smiling_for_fun @leahprime Was just gonna say this. Honed a simple, honest approach to the nature of mind as a prisoner of war post Tibetan occupation

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@A_Skoteinos @acidhorizonpod “Honey, I Shrunk The Bodies Without Organs”

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@myceliummage @the_wilderless Five Spirits: a solid intro to a somatic inner alchemical framework based on the Chinese 5 elements/5 spirits. It was my intro to that framework and helped me get a practical feel for it

DRRCF: haven’t read yet, still waiting for it to show up to the library 😁

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@shibumigido 10% happier the shibumi way

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@lumpthought This is basically the main critique of "corporate mindfulness." It's a good critique because people keep doing option #2, so clearly it's still needed

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@taalumot I keep coming back to that Yud tweet where he says LLMs are sentient but chickens aren't

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@the_wilderless I don’t think it is unless you are using a very narrow definition of that kind of practice. My evidence is many occultists

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@TPatbat Found it! https://t.co/i14K4pnNoS

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@rachelclif Whatever mine is, plus one

[Psychocosm, but my friends call me Matt @Buddh_ish]

@acidhorizonpod The gunfire sound goes da da, da da!