Doc. Bardo

Any form of conclusion is detrimental to full comprehension or understanding of the whole process of existence - Krishnamurti

[Doc. Bardo @RandyJ536]

Though knowledge and love appear to be very different, their nature like that of fire and heat, is spontaneously present from the very beginning. -Dilgo Khyentse

[Alex Olshonsky @oloal]

One of the most useful frames for understanding our current world, and where things seem to be heading, is Robert Anton Wilson’s idea of reality tunnels.

A reality tunnel is a filter through which you perceive the world. It shapes what you regularly notice, what you dismiss, and what you don’t think to question because, well, it’s just reality.

In the online era, we’ve already bifurcated to the point where you don’t have to go from Brooklyn to Mississippi to find someone living in a completely different reality. You can stay on the same block in either place. Covid only exacerbated the split, and now, on top of our social feeds, we have sycophantic AIs that often reinforce our tunnels.

A few you might recognize:

• Everything boils down to power and oppression. Or, from the other side, everything that’s gone wrong in the last two decades is a result of wokeness.

• Men can’t be trusted and are the root of society’s woes. Or, from the other corner of the online gender war, women are.

• Whatever bad shit is happening in the world, it’s because of corruption and evildoers, never just people doing their best and fucking it up.

• What looks like the world falling apart is actually a shift into a higher vibration of love, yet there are beings trying to pull us in the other direction, toward power and control.

• Everything that happens to you is a divine lesson because this incarnation is Earth school.

• The only problem in your life is that you’re clinging to an idea of who you are and how things are supposed to be.

• Every problem in your life is a skill issue.

• It’s all oneness.

The thing is, most reality tunnels contain partial truth. And even the idea that it’s reality tunnels all the way down - and therefore no view is worth holding onto - is itself a kind of tunnel.

So if we’re all unavoidably inhabiting a reality tunnel, the core question to ask is: what is living in this particular one doing to your existence? Does it materially improve your life and the lives of the people you love? And is the world any better off for it?

If not, you might try letting it go for a bit and see what the world looks like without it. Which probably just means relaxing into a different, more life-giving tunnel.

This is part of the magic of consciousness. You can try on a different way of seeing without having to decide whether it’s the Truth, and find out what it does to your day-to-day felt experience, how you act in the world, and whether you move closer to the life you want.

[Doc. Bardo @RandyJ536]

@JamesDissent @edleonklinger Genie or Demon, is already out of the bottle-

[Doc. Bardo @RandyJ536]

@nosilverv @FU_joehudson Rigdzen?

[Wilton Wang @Wilton_6996]

你嫌弃的这副肉身，是妖怪渡劫五百年换不来的顶级法器!

有没有想过，自己这条命，放在宇宙的尺度上，其实是一张你差一点就拿不到的门票?在道教的世界观里，你以为能投胎为人是一件稀松平常的事，可事实上，你手里这副被你嫌弃到不行的身体，是整个三界里最稀缺的奢侈品。

别不信。聊斋志异里那些狐妖，做梦都想得到一张完整的人皮。一只狐狸从开启灵智到化为人形，得实打实修炼五百年。五百年什么概念?从明朝正德年间起步，熬过明清易代、熬过鸦片战争，一直卷到你出生的这个年代，才刚刚够格换一副能说人话的舌头。它们躲雷劫、吞日月精华，被打回原形时最绝望的遗言不是"我输了"，而是"你们生来就有，却从不珍惜"。

比这更绝的，是佛道典籍里流传的那个"盲龟浮木"的比喻。海面上漂着一块带孔的破木头，深海里有一只瞎眼海龟，它每一百年才浮出海面换一口气。你自己算算，这只盲龟下一次露头，脑袋刚好穿过那个木头小孔的概率有多大?无限趋近于零。而经典告诉你，你能作为一个人活在世上，就是这么离谱的极小概率事件。

在道教的"承负"观念里，你能拿到这张入场券，靠的不只是你自己的运气。所谓承负，比因果多了一层祖辈的连带关系。

你压根没见过的曾祖父做过的一件善事，可能正在你人生的某个拐角默默铺路;某个八竿子打不着的先人犯下的一桩罪过，也可能在你命格里埋了一颗暗雷。严格来讲，你不是两手空空被随机抽中的，你是一个带着无数前辈道德遗产来到人间的继承者。

既然这么宝贵，那人生就一定很美好吗?恰恰相反，道教经典对这副身体的评价毒舌到了极点。《清静经》一针见血:人之所以离道越来越远，全是这具身体惹的祸。

眼贪美色、耳恋妙音，欲望像绳子一样把你捆得死死的。这副皮囊会让你饿、让你痛、让你老，它简直是一个无法辞职的麻烦制造机，是一座血肉筑成的牢笼。

但有意思的是，同一副身体，在《悟真篇》里又被尊为"炼丹的鼎炉"。道士们认为，只有人的身体拥有奇经八脉、能储存能量的丹田，以及完整的三魂七魄。

石头没有知觉，一头牛永远无法站在田埂上反思"我为什么要犁地"。它们被锁在更深的黑暗里，连自己被锁住这件事都意识不到。只有你，能用这副精密的仪器去逆天改命，去炼精化气、炼气化神。

[mhisa maya @mhisamaya]

Timeline purification!

Chaos, violence and despair shall not reign. May the path be illuminated for all who wander in darkness. ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྂ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྂ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྂ

[Jess @frideswyth]

If your awakening doesn’t make you an earnest, honest, loving, optimistic Jesus sort, take it back to the store

[David Chapman @Meaningness]

💀 Halloween post! "How to create a functional mythology." This is a vampire story I have told no one before. It seemed too dangerous.
The post is also about death, and sorcery, and philology, and The Lord of the Rings, and heroism, and our future.

[Yeshe Cholwa @BunyipAlex88962]

Primordial purity ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Although we use words such as achieving, wishing, and praying for enlightenment, ultimately we don’t acquire enlightenment from an external source. A more correct way to put it is discovering the enlightenment that has always been there. Enlightenment is part of our true nature. Our true nature is like a golden statue; however, it is still in its mold, which is like our defilements and ignorance. Because ignorance and emotion are not an inherent part of our nature, just as the mold is not part of the statue, there is such a thing as primordial purity. When the mold is broken, the statue emerges. When our defilements are removed, our true buddhanature is revealed.

[starry deer crocodile @Ogmin]

Enlightenment understands Presence Itself, so do not strive for some other enlightenment. Striving for some other enlightenment is like churning water when you want butter.

~ Namkha Che Gyepa

[Cube Flipper @cube_flipper]

new post day! a collaboration with the meditation coach @RogerThisdell. when you lie upside down and look at the horizon, what do you see? when i do this, i see curved lines, whereas roger sees straight lines! (chatgpt assisted replication)

[Roger This @RogerThisdell]

🆕 Very pleased to share my expanded essay on Somatic-Visual coupling. ⬇️

"Have you ever noticed that with a high degree of accuracy, you know what it would feel like to lick any surface you look at? And I mean just by looking, not actually touching. No? Well, give it a try, now. Look at the nearest table, wall, or whatever object to you and imagine licking it. You have an immediate sense of the felt texture of it, don't you?"

[Nick @nickcammarata]

interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had

with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works

https://t.co/zHij5zwKGT

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day, §574.

[Wilton Wang @Wilton_6996]

从高维视角看，大多数人穷极一生，都在做一件徒劳无功、违背宇宙规律的事：“向外求救。”

可是人只能“自渡”，只能“向内求”。
这句话人人听过，却极少有人真正能做到，包括我自己。

世人理解的“自渡”，大多停留在世俗层面：坚强、独立、咬牙坚持、靠自己努力。

这只是表面，并非真相。

佛家讲：“凡所有相，皆为虚妄”。

在高维，所有灵魂本自具足，没有痛苦。

而我们每个人，之所以来到三维世界，就是为了渡劫、消业、升维、圆满自性。

宇宙的底层规则是：业力自担，因果自受。

没有任何一个人，可以替你消业、替你觉醒、替你通关、替你圆满。

所有出现在你生命里的人：爱你的、伤你的、帮你的、骗你的、陪你的、离开你的，全部都是因缘聚合，全部都是为你的修行而来。

你所有的苦难、内耗，全都是你自己心念感召、频率显化的结果。

你所经历的现实、遭遇、贫富、顺逆、悲欢，没有一件事意外，全部都是你内在的心念长期投射、累积、显化的必然结果。

你内在什么频率，外在就会显化什么人生。

我举一个所有人都能看懂的例子：一个人长期负面内耗、执念过重、情绪外泄、怨怼众生，积累了大量业力。于是他显化失恋、背叛、失业、负债、抑郁。

此时，别人再怎么安慰你、陪伴你、开导你，都替不了你的业力。

很多人常年陷入循环痛苦：反复遇到烂人、反复遭遇背叛、反复陷入内耗、反复经历低谷。

不是命运不公，是你的心念没变，你的频率没变，所以你的经历也不会变。

外力，永远只能解决表象问题；改变心念，才能根除病根。

很多人低估了念头的力量，以为：念头是虚的、想法是小事，胡思乱想也没关系。

道家讲：一念起，惊动十方神煞。

我们萌生的每一个念头，都是一股真实流动的能量波，向外持续发射能量。

就像有一个湖，你扔一块石头进去，以这个落点为中心，会产生一圈圈涟漪向外扩散，这里的涟漪就是能量波。

有的人之所以痛苦，就是一辈子都在无意识往自己的湖里疯狂乱扔石头。

日复一日、年复一年，无数心念层层叠加、反复震荡，于是你人事纠缠不断、灾祸接连不止。

凡人畏果，菩萨畏因。

大多数人一生都在果上挣扎：换环境、换人，却无济于事。

真正的开悟，从来不是靠听课、看书得来，只能一边经历，一边悟出来。

所以，善护念，保持正念，是破局渡己的最高智慧，
好好守护自己的每一个念头。

能渡你的，从来只有你自己。

[Wilton Wang @Wilton_6996]

你一旦开悟，洞察到了天道，就会变得心存善念，也会冷血无情。不再轻易渡人，包括这一世的父母孩子，你若强行去渡，说些超出他认知的正见，他未必能接，身上的业力、习气都在挡着。倒不如让他们做自己，你要做的就是不被影响和消耗。不是真冷漠，而是每个人都有自己的功课和因果，父母也一样。世人常说修行到深处便成修无情道，其实就是放手，是允许，绝非试图改变他人，亦非泛滥的同情心所能涵盖。它是一种深沉的理解与尊重，是对万物生长规律的顺应，允许他人犯错，允许人撞南墙，允许万物按自己的节奏生长。

每个人都有自己的执念要破，那些没有学会的东西，命运会用不同的方式，反复出现在生命里，直到他学会为止。而这个过程，只有他亲身经历才能领悟。他人的劝说，只能是隔岸观火。所以多半时候，只在心里存着份安稳。他们哭时不忙着递安慰，他们迷时不急于指方向，就站在自己的道上守着等他们撞得够了，回头时见你还在，递一杯温茶，说句"回来了就好"，这或许比千言万语，更合天道的分寸。

毕竟修行到最后，谁不是自己渡了自己。那些经历过万箭穿心、心脉受损，并成功走出的人，都是天选之人。命运为了提高他的维度，安排了很多老师过来叫醒他、调教他、打磨他，这些老师们狠狠的轮番给他们上了课，让他们知道什么是痛苦、疾病、怨恨、绝望、无依无靠……然后再无情把他推向悬崖，任他自生自灭。

于是，他用血肉模糊的双手从悬崖峭壁一点一点往上爬 过程十分痛苦，终于有一天 他爬上来了!凤凰归位，涅槃重生，一个崭新的世界也会从此重启。

那些老师们集体在他的世界消失了，从此他的道路上再也没有什么能轻易撼动他的心，他成为了他自己，再也不会被别人左右！反而这样，周边出现的人都是正缘，都是助力，都成为滋养他的养料，于是一个全新的灵魂 ，全纬度升级过的天选之人就会诞生。

[Yeshe Cholwa @BunyipAlex88962]

Within the expanse of empty mind ~ Padmasambhava
Within the sky-like empty mind, habitual tendencies and disturbing emotions are just like clouds and mist. When they appear, they appear within the expanse of empty mind. When they remain, they remain within the expanse of empty mind. And when they dissolve, they dissolve in that same expanse of empty mind.

[Doc. Bardo @RandyJ536]

@nosilverv Dan later met H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin, Abbott of the Menri Bon Monastery, Donaji, H.P. India, and spiritual head of the Tibetan Bon religion, and was asked to translate secret profound text of the Tibetan Bon cave yogis including:

[Ra @slimepriestess]

the deepest crux in the AI safety debate isn't one oft discussed, but once you know to look for it, it's obvious. the two camps are defined by their answers to this question: would you rather destroy the present to protect the future, or destroy the future to protect the present?

[Doc. Bardo @RandyJ536]

@nosilverv @louisvarge Yes @DorKonforty