Jared Janes

Reminding folks they're already awake! Martial artist, eclectic thinker, and co-founder.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

If I could give just one thing to spiritual/religious Twitter/X it would be the 'view pill'. #PracticeWithInformedConsent

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

Meditation methods come with worldviews.

If you don't know their view, it's difficult to see if they lead in the directions you desire.

If you're blindly practicing methods with different views, it's hard to see if they're complimentary or contradictory.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@sarabollman I'm also lucky that @degenerateyogi has a lot of parents, is multi-generational, and overall family friendly.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@sarabollman I stay connected mostly from my gym community, my neighbors, and extended family.

[ⰘⰑⰍⰀⰋ ⰔⰑⰁⰑⰎ @hokaisobol]

Awareness.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@JakeOrthwein I've talked about duhkha similarly... from a life-affirming perspective unsatisfaction is simply a call to caring action.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@sarabollman 😔 so sorry to hear things have been so rough lately. Sounds like a natural response to me! While I'm at the point now where I can find some gratitude, it doesn't exclude the resentment. Maybe the best result is that it drives me to teach in very different ways... 🤷‍♂️

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@sarabollman If only more people in the space took informed consent seriously!
I've felt similarly in phases of my path, and I'm still pretty salty about many of the methods and traditions I practiced without proper warning labels.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@OortCloudAtlas It is where babies come from... 😜

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Hard to imagine a more timely theme than yearning for a mythical father's homecoming. Such a catharsis should be in the aesthetic language contemporary young men already know and understand.

The Odyssey is a timeless heroic fantasy. It's fine that Nolan makes it look like one.

[Ari Nielsen @anielsen108]

I do not like the pejorative in the Three Poisons (Attachment, Aversion, Ignoring).

Instead: the valence neutral Three Involvements: Emphasizing, De-emphasizing, and Setting Aside.

They become poisons only when they arise as compulsory, and not when liberated from compulsion.

[Jim Rutt @jim_rutt]

Everyone's talking about Moloch. @Liv_Boeree argues we should be just as concerned about Norma.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@Meaningness How interesting it would be to be a fly on the wall of @AnthropicAI's Glasswing orgs!

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@hokaisobol And yet, renunciative methods built from the view of transformation/liberation are quite different in flavor and effect. TLDR: extinguishing vs. setting aside

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@bashu_thanks Firting is a vast territory. This pun'ish type of playful banter is surely included in the big tent of flirtation!

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@KennethFolk Much of it is ridiculous but it's not black and white. A properly martial trained woman would be dangerous to most untrained men.

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@RichDecibels Not to be that guy but... that clip is about as stage 4 as it gets. 🤯

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

The market is a dead player

[Jared Janes @JaredJanes]

@cognazor It was indeed cliquish, degraded, nihilist but my nostalgia includes those bits too... 🤷‍♂️

[Charlie Awbery @_awbery_]

Most of our relational problems aren't about events or beliefs, they're about deeply held stuckness in patterns of interaction.

Time for my Kaleidoscope of Interactions course again :-)

Big changes since its initial run in 2023. Evolving Ground has iterated over it and we've turned it into a three part series. We're running Part I as a managable 4 week introduction, starting this Wednesday, February 18th. More 👇

[Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski]

I maintain that it's an interesting question––perhaps the most interesting question––despite fully acknowledging it's not a requirement for highly undesirable outcomes.

The idea that it's a silly question rests on the proposition that questions of machine consciousness are only important for reasons related to x-risk, which is false.

The question is interesting / important because it will help us to better comprehend our own nature, and perhaps ground our sense of meaning amidst an already disorienting future.