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Believe nothing.
Believe nobody.
Verify everything.
Of course, we would need many lifetimes to verify everything, and hence we need to select those things that are important enough to us that we need to verify them.
That does not mean believing everything else, it means accepting that most things will remain in a state of relative knowledge. I do not have to decide whether a proposition is true or false, I just need to remember that it exists.
The brain really dislikes dealing in doubt. It takes far too much energy juggling doubts when one can pick a belief instead. But I don't see it that way; I don't see the problem of holding ideas in suspended animation. This solves the issue of using up precious brain energy and it avoids believing total crap.
I know "X said Y", so that becomes a stable proposition; I don't always then have to decide whether to "believe Y is true" or "believe X is truthful". I just don't have to; sometimes I do, and sometimes I know, but I have no need to bet on the toss of a truth-coin.
I'm not sure where the human desire to be always wrong comes from. Does it hold some great survival advantage? ;-)
Anyway, back to Sadhguru and some very recent videos.
Sadhguru Warns: Either you do it OR... = population reduction.
How To Be Alone & Happy? = you will own nothing, and you will be happy.
This is a great example of a very good orator with some power, who is thus able to mix some very much needed truths with a few crunchy lies.
My one litmus test remains the same: what am I being asked to do?
I was once upon a time a big fan of Sadhguru and also visited his ashram once a year, but then in the last few years, I have wondered on his association with the big giants. At the beginning of the pandemic he and Deepak Chopra did some interviews on Vaccines where they clearly did not oppose the vaccines but they gave a lot of hints on how Vaccines would not be the right treatment. But later both of them went quiet. That made me really wonder that people who hold power to influence can also succumb means it is all a big business for everyone.
Yes, I noticed that too. The spiritual dimension of this war is overlooked by most people. Not only can they not perceive the frequencies, but that those frequencies are also designed to interfere with some altered states. This isn't new-age - which I dislike - but is bio-physics.
The vast majority of "religious leaders" have been utterly spineless and useless in the scamdemic - never forget.
But this is also the "spiritual plan" - soft mysticism but without real power. Many can meditate for a lifetime and get nowhere much.
Synchronicity! I have been pulled to watch alot of his content recently.
Right... "pulled" is correct - lots of his stuff in my YLube feed.
I wonder why? ;-)
One funny quote of his: "People are either mystics or mistakes!"
What he didn't add is that some of the mystics are also mistaken ;-)
Indians themselves are aware of the charlatan-mystic - they have a long history of such people. As he has also said, most people can't tell the difference, because quite fundamentally they don't really know what it is they are searching for.
Look inside, is my only advice - look deeper. There are techniques, but just reading them won't help.
I missed this, or I wouldn't have been blindsided today. Not that I was an avid follower of his, but I watched him on occasion and liked him. Past tense.
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There is no absolute truth about everything in this world. Everyone can only try to gather as much information as possible to get closer to the truth value of what he believes in and put aside anything that contradicts his beliefs. Truth with one another is often contradictory, it really depends on one's understanding of something.
So you would cast aside the truth in favour of your belief?
The truth that man has is only temporary until he finds another truth that can strengthen the previous truth or truth. For this reason, humans are encouraged to continue to seek the truth as the essence of their existence.
WOW JUST WOW! Understanding is flexible this way, changes with circumstances and so is ALWAYS true. Love this statement!
If we pick a belief, and are in the presence of someone who does not hold that belief, we are incapable of experiencing that person fully. Communication depends on not being fixed in any one belief.
Hey, I'm late to this party, thanks to @blurtyield for popping a link to this post into a recent comment.
I'm not sure that it always guarantees truth, but I think is the only method I can think of to avoid errors of judgment.
It still strikes me as a major biological flaw that the mind can create totally false picture of the universe, and that it doesn't matter at all, so long as it doesn't kill us.
Then it kills us!
We are seeing the tragic dangers of false beliefs right now - and that they are so easy to manufacture and spread.
Is it false though? Or true for some? The forcing of covid dogma on all of us is what is false, not the dogma. That's simply an idea, no harm at all. Goodness you've got me thinking so differently today.
The danger is in the use of force. That is an action that has effects. Recent technology has made it easier to spread ideas that are false for a great many. That same technology has brought you and I together.
Force does not have to be a punch in the face, or a bullet; force can be the invasion of my property with signals I have given zero permission to receive, such as other people's phones. That's trespassing. I could go and drive a nine inch nail into every phone and router in my vicinity - counter-force ;-)
But ideas have consequences; I could believe it's a good idea to be pricked, I then die of some heart complication leaving a wife who believes I died from an imaginary virus. One less human plus one more believer in tyrannical bollox.
I also don't buy into the "this tech is good" idea. There was an internet before wireless comms and before blockchains - we could have met on some other chatroom. Even the internet itself, great potential repository of knowledge, but... they are burning the books, what happens when the digital copies are wiped.
I used to be a book dealer - I have seen 1000s of books go up in flames in incinerators.