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Imperfect vision
by David
Imperfect vision for an imperfect life
Episodes
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Understanding why laziness exists, and how to fix it
Laziness only exists because your brain needs a beginning to a project. Something like "play guitar" might sound certain to you, but it leaves a lot of things open. This openness is something you can fix. Create a loose project beginning like "Learn how to tune a guitar." In this way, the brain…
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Understanding the logic of the brain
Chat GPT gave a good description of the logic of the brain. One thing I wonder now is that it might be a good idea to, if I currently don't know it, make the brain's logic explicit to avoid resistance of this kind in the future. If my assumption is true, what kind of logic does the brain use?…
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Why I stopped explaining reality
I have learned to let reality reveal the way it works without explaining it.
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Noun-based thinking vs verb-based thinking, understanding the difference
You can either think in separate, distinct units or aspects of reality, or distinct, but connected aspects of reality. That is what this episode is about.
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Why I haven't made a podcast episode in a while, the real reason
Because I have been focusing more on structure rather than just truth or facts, I have seen the growing reason why descent is becoming so common. It's also why I'm very hesitant to start making more episodes as well.
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How your opinions get confused as objectiv facts
Often times your experiences , thoughts, or opinions gets missidentified as objective truth. In this episode I will try to help you become aware of this. Becoming aware of it helps you avoid this problem in the future.
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The value of shutting up: why not speaking makes you more aware
You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. That means you should listen more than you speak. Speaking often creates less awareness because you are not aware of the language centers of your brain. This is what this episode is about. Be very careful about the judgments you make about this…
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What can we actually know: an experiential look
What we knowledge, and what we have experienced are two entirely different things. For instance, I may think I know that Alaska exists, but if I've never been there, all I have is second-hand knowledge. But if I've been there, learned the culture of Alaska, experienced the cold weather, then that...
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understanding the contradiction of freedom
Ultimate freedom leads to ultimate chaos. To have more freedom means to have at least some structure, rules, and laws. In this episode, I will explain why
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Does the ego actually exist? An experiential guide
The truth is that the idea of ego is nothing but a map to understand the mind. The sooner you understand this, the better off you will be.
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The miracle that is awareness: a meditation
So many things are taken for granted in our fast-paced lifestyle. But in this episode, I will show the miracles that are all around us, starting with the greatest miracle of all: awareness
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The survival mindset is inevitable and impossible to get rid of: this is why
Even our spiritual seeking is part of the survival mindset
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Understanding the impermanent self: an experiential view
What we consider to be ourselves are just impermanent thoughts, eomotions, and sensations. In this episode, I will show how this is so.
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In a moment of absence of arrogance: why I'm really leaving this podcast behind
I felt that it was time to leave. I no longer find this interesting, and I must learn not to be arrogant.
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Goodbye... This is the end of the road for this podcast
This is the last episode for this podcast. I hope you all have a nice rest of your life.
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The thinking podcast: people don't know how to think, because they haven't been taught how to think
Many people haven't been taught how to think. In this episode, I will teach you why, and some reasons why this will probably continue into the future.
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Understanding why most people cannot be self-aware: revised and updated
Being self-aware requires discipline, an ability to make distinctions, and going anti self, which most people will not do.
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Warning!!!! This podcast is like a burning flame burning all of your illusions away
These illlusions make you full of shit
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The sillyness of needing to deal with your emotions
The craziest thing is that people think they need to placate their emotions: but the pvoblem is that this makes you weaker.
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Everyone's full of shit. Why? Because no one has been taught how to think.
Logic is the only answer. It is the only thing that can teach us how to think.
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the stupidity of politics
Politics be stupid. People be triggered by this. What else is new?
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Why taking things seriously is not worth the trouble
When you take shit seriously, you believe your own bullshit.
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The consequences of morality: how morality creates problems for you and the world
What is morality really how does it work. These are questions. We ask ourselves in this episode and we’re going to go into what reality is how it works how it creates problems and how to go beyond morals, and in some possible way of witness.
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why morality and dogmas can make us inferior
Unlearn life and everything
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Nonreactivity vs peace: What is the difference?
Nonreactivity and peace are two very different things. In this episode, I will explain how this is, and why nonreactivity is more about awareness than anything else.
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Nonreactivity vs avoidance, understanding the difference
Nonreactivity, or what would more accurately be called noninterference is where you are aware of things as they are happening, without interfering with them. In this episode I will explain the difference between that and avoidance of what is. Here's the episode I mentioned in this episode: The…
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Understanding the purpose of nonreactivity, and how to do this practice
Nonreactivity is where you sit with thoughts and emotions without interfering into what they are doing. In this episode, I am going to show you how to do this, as well as the purposse for doing this practice, especially every day.
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Why doing what feels natural doesn't work
Doing what feels natural is what is called reacting to life. While reacting to life might seem normal enough, it creates a lot of problems for you that you are not aware of. In this episode, I will explain why this is, and how to go beyond this over a period of time.
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Understanding why you cannot control anything: a guide to destroying your ideas of superiority and better
The truth is that you cannot control anything. In this episode, I will explain why this is true, and how you can become aware of this.
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This is why you cannot serve two masters
To serve two masters is like chasing two rabbits at the same time that are going into opposite directions.
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Understanding the two kinds of emptiness and what they mean
There are two kinds of emptiness, subjective and objective emptiness. In this episode, I will show you why subjective emptiness is an illusion, and how objective emptiness is all there is.
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Debunking, and going beyond the true self
In this episode, I will show you why there is no true self, as well as how the self was created in the first place
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Why opinions trick you, and how to tell the difference between an opinion and an observation
be Opinions are tricky. Your mind is very good at tricking you into leaving that this one idea is true or false and I wanna talk to you about this and I want to help you to go on opinions and show you the differences between opinions and observations so that you can Get a sense of these two and…
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why seeking novelty doesn't work and why sticking to tried and true methods will work instead
Many people seek novelty in their experiences, the latest fads, and the grandest spiritual experiences. But the more I attempt to become nonreactive, the more I realize that just won't fly if you want stability and something that works for you long term. You may just find that the tried and true...
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Notice the sillyness: some signs that your practice of nonreactivity is working.
When you practice non-reactivity for a while certain things may start to happen to you. You may start to see the silliness in all of your thoughts and emotions. You may start to notice how uncontrollable they really are things like this. This is one thing we will be talking about in this episode.
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Why reacting to life causes suffering
In buddhism one of the three poisons is ignorance. In this episode, I will explain why this is, and how reacting to life to life creates this ignorance over time.
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Deconstructing and going beyond need
In this episode, I will explain to you how need is an illusion, and creates all kinds of implicit assumptions that are harmful to you and others, and how you can go beyond need itself. Enjoy.
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You don't have to get everything right the first time: deconstructing failure
There are all kinds of implicit assumptions about failure which create the need to get all of life right the first time. This creates a lot of pressure and stress that is unnecessary and causes you many problem's. In this episode, I will talk about this and more, to hopefully get you to a place…
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Acceptance is not something that you do
Many spiritual texts seem to suggest that acceptance is something that you do, but I find that this is not true. Acceptance is when all judgments are let go of. This is the key of acceptance.
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Deconstructing, and going beyond need: a practice-based episode
This episode will show you why need is an illusion.
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Meditation: how seeing emotions as just sensations in the body makes them less powerful
The only reason why emotions seem powerful is because you give them meaning and interpret life based on what you think they are saying.
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Why I don't make episodes with opinions anymore.
Opinions and journal-based recordings are often inaccurate, and so if I record them, I will not share them here, and will look through them with a skeptical mindset to find the flaws, and if it merits recording it again, I will, but from more of a observational mindset, rather than an…
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Understanding how noninterferance works when meditating
We are controlling beings and this ends up creating a situation where we interfere with everything that happens in our minds. We label things that’s good bad or neutral and the good or bad things we have to resist or attached to in our minds. in this episode. I’m going to explain to you how to...
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Understanding the emptiness and why it can never be fulfilled
There is an emptyness where where there are things you want vs reality. This episode will show you how to get used to, rather than trying to get rid of this emptiness.
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How I use my three principles of awareness, clarity, and and nuance in every day life
This is the link to the episode about using awareness practically https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fhWLxasiVcNDVNTD1Ttj4?si=vGsFfKKfTP233tkyJSb4TA&t=65
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We are all standing on the shoulders of giants
Eything that we have now and know is all because of millions of people from the past, that leads to what we are now.
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How your response to nihilism creates dualities within you
nihilism only creates depression and pessimism within you because you need something that nihilism cannot deliver
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How nihilism is the ultimate responsibility
With most world views, meanings, ideas, etc. you can just go along without needing to do anything different from those ideas, but with nihilism there is no such thing from these places. There’s only one response. What can I do? I can’t do anything for a specific meaning place This meaning place…
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Imperfect vision for an imperfect life
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