Tejas Nirantar

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[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

chatgpt quotes:

[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

Might we better understand others in their predicament if we could somehow know how their way of living reflects the state of their hoping at this depth? - not the hopes they have or the hoping they do, but the hopes and hoping they are?

[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

Robert Kegan's The Evolving Self:

[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

This book is about human being as an activity. It is not about the doing which a human does; it is about the doing which a human is.

[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

asking whether chatgpt believes in god is, computationally, similar to asking:
std::sqrt("banana");
or
std::string s;
https://t.co/l4ny5xiN8v_happy();
the object simply lacks the property you're querying.

[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

chatgpt quotes:

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Testing reveals speed, not depth. Real life is about depth.
RIP Jim Simons

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

@ollyrobot Psychoanalytic Diagnosis by Nancy McWilliams is genuinely the most compelling, well written and humane textbook I've ever read. Amazing density of information about human behavior in there, very readable and loving

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

@tuna_ape One Hundred Years of Solitude, because it's the most humane piece of literature I've ever read

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

There is, and it's closely related to a genera, which is the opposite of trauma. It's an event so intense it ruptures your sense of self and makes your old identity impossible to sustain. But instead of the difference between old and new you becoming a whirlpool of pain and rumination, the rupture becomes a wellspring through which your soul pours into the world.

Examples include: Near-death experiences, finding the great love of your life, helping deliver a baby, meeting a hero and finding that he admires something in you that he doesn't have. Being forgiven by someone you once harmed and still carry immeasurable guilt for. Creating a work of art so beautiful you can't believe it came through you. Finding you are still loved after a nervous breakdown. Meditating until reality dissolves into indescribably beautiful vibration. Leaving a lover better than you found them. Loving someone unconditionally for long enough that you see them completely transform.

Because we are so resilient, and because the spirit naturally moves toward coherence and growth when it is in a safe and healthy environment, there are many more ways to rupture the self in generative ways than there are to traumatize it. It's one of the most beautiful things about being human.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Everybody wants to be enlightened, nobody wants to do the fucking dishes. the highest thing you can be as a human being is not the thing you understood, it's the thing you did. some guy who can't spell his own name right but built a house with his two hands that actually stands is closer to God than any man who read a thousand books and never moved his thumb for anyone else. not because he prayed because he made a thing exist that didn't exist before, and that's what God did, and that's all anybody is asking you to do

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Maybe the biggest confusion in Western Dharma is the set of instructions for what happens during spiritual practice vs. how to live your daily life. You should sit like a mountain, preferring nothing. You should be a human with many strong preferences when not on the cushion

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

@StumptownGrrl the studio apartment is where God puts a man when he wants to talk to him alone

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I wanted a thousand things in my life, and most of them i didn't get. and i looked at myself the way this post is asking me to, and thought i wasn't smart enough. but years passed, and i started seeing what each of those things would have done to me if i had gotten them, and every single one would have destroyed me - some fast and some slow. everything i didn't get turned out to be the smartest thing that happened to me, but it was not my smartness. it was something else deciding on my behalf, because i was not smart enough to decide for myself. sometimes not getting what you want is the only proof that something out there loves you more than you were ever capable of loving yourself

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

God sends small children into the world to expose men. you think you are holy until a three year old throws a bowl of cereal at the wall for the third time. you think you are patient until you have not slept for five nights straight, and the baby is still screaming. every half man, is found out by his own offspring. children are judges, sent in miniature to read your verdict out loud. God could have judged us from the throne. instead, he sent us toddlers. more effective

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

"If you love God you might find Him in twenty years, but if you hate God you can find Him in two."

- Robert Bly

[Tejas Nirantar @tejas_nirantar]

candrakirti:
trying to attach on to emptiness as the ultimate reality is like going into a store and being told there is no milk and asking for two glasses of not-milk

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

better put this here before someone thinks they are being original

[rosalind lucy @wholebodyprayer]

Now is a good time to relocate what we are impressed by out of “knowing stuff” and into “mystic wisdom”

William Blake’s words from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are great commentary on AI, if we can grasp what he is saying.