I've cowered through life, loathing every moment of existence, finding ways to be disrespectful and demeaning to myself. Only to reach a place in life to gain perspective to live better and love thyself. Although, it comes at such a late stage, I'd want nothing but to share this perspective to those who are looking and to those who aren't, especially to the ones who aren't, cause they'd be needing it the most.

It's All About Perspective 

My hatred towards self stemmed, some from childhood trauma, some from the constant yearning to please others. But, mainly from me constantly feeling less amongst my peers, and generally just anyone about me. Anyone I saw, looked perfect. And I belittled myself trying to impress the perfect beings around me. Unless I had the crucial perspective change that changed my life.

Everyone Is Perfect

Yes, this is where my life took a turn. The moment I realised that I'm neither lesser nor better than anyone around me. Rather, when broken down, we're all the same. Different lives, trying to make sense of the world, with their own insecurities and imperfections. At the end of the day, we're all just little pieces of fawked up beings. And your imperfections aren't more imperfect than anyone else's around.

We Are All Just Fawked Up

After you've gained this perspective, easier said than done, but once you truly embrace this idea that nobody matters, and everybody matters at the same time. Is the time you let go of your ego, and let go of your shame, and be truly you. And the truly you, is a kind hearted empathetic being, cause everyone's the same. Everyone is you...and nobody is you...and that's the beauty of being.

Not Shame, Not Ego, But Empathy!

Understand yourself and those around you.

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"sooner or later, life makes philosophers of us all."

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a dif­ferent perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in a pil­grimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to recon­nect with philosophy’s original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Simone de Beauvoir and twentieth-century Paris, Weiner’s chosen philosophers and places provide important signposts as we navigate today’s chaotic times. In The Socrates Express, Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions.

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a dif­ferent perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in a pil­grimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to recon­nect with philosophy’s original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Simone de Beauvoir and twentieth-century Paris, Weiner’s chosen philosophers and places provide important signposts as we navigate today’s chaotic times. In The Socrates Express, Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions.

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Chapter 7 Text 13Lord Krishna said"Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me who am above the modes and inexhaustible"The whole world is enchanted by three modes of material nature. Those who are bewildered by these three modes cannot understand that transcendental to this material nature is the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.In this material world everyone is under the influence of these three modes and is thus bewildered. By nature living entities have particular types of body and particular types of psychic and biological activities accordingly.

3 Modes Of Material Nature

There are four classes of men functioning in the three material modes of nature. (Goodness,Passion and Ignorance)Those who are purely in the mode of goodness are called brāhmaṇas(Intellectuals)(Scholars,Priests,Teachers).Those who are purely in the mode of passion are called kṣatriyas(Administrators)(Rulers,Warriors).Those who are in the modes of both passion and ignorance are called vaiśyas(mercantile class)(Agriculturalists,Merchants).Those who are completely in ignorance are called śūdras.(service or labour class)

4 Classes Of Men

Constitutional position of the living being is the rendering of service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If we analyze this statement, we can easily see that every living being is constantly engaged in rendering service to another living being. A living being serves other living beings in various capacities. By doing so, the living entity enjoys life. The lower animals serve human beings as servants serve their master. A serves B master, B serves C master, and C serves D master and so on.

Our Relationship With God (Part 1)

Under these circumstances,we can see that one friend serves another friend, the mother serves the son,the wife serves the husband, the husband serves the wife and so on.If we go on searching in this spirit,it will be seen that there is no exception in the society of living beings to the activity of service. The politician presents his manifesto for the public to convince them of his capacity for service.The voters therefore give the politician their valuable votes,thinking that he will render valuable service to society. The shopkeeper serves the customer,and the artisan serves the capitalist.

Our Relationship With God (Part 2)

The capitalist serves the family,and the family serves the state in the terms of the eternal capacity of the eternal living being. In this way we can see that no living being is exempt from rendering service to other living beings,and therefore we can safely conclude that service is the constant companion of the living being and that the rendering of service is the eternal religion of the living being.Yet man professes to belong to a particular type of faith with reference to a particular time and circumstance and thus claims to be a Hindu,Muslim,Christian, Buddhist or an adherent of any sect.

Our Relationship With God (Part 3)

Such designations are non–sanātana-dharma. A Hindu may change his faith to become a Muslim, or a Muslim may change his faith to become a Hindu, or a Christian may change his faith and so on. But in all circumstances the change of religious faith does not affect the eternal occupation of rendering service to others. The Hindu, Muslim or Christian in all circumstances is a servant of someone. Thus, to profess a particular type of faith is not to profess one’s sanātana-dharma. The rendering of service is sanātana-dharma. Factually we are related to the Supreme Lord in service.

Our Relationship With God (Part 4)

The Supreme Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and we living entities are His servitors. We are created for His enjoyment, and if we participate in that eternal enjoyment with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we become happy. We cannot become happy otherwise. It is not possible to be happy independently, just as no one part of the body can be happy without cooperating with the stomach. It is not possible for the living entity to be happy without rendering transcendental loving service unto the Supreme Lord.

Our Relationship With God (Part 5)

Bhagavad Gita 8.20–21 Supreme Lord Krishna said“There	is	another	nature,	which	is	eternal	and	is	transcendental to this manifested and	unmanifested	matter.	It	is	supreme	and is never annihilated.	When	all	in	this world	is	annihilated,	that	part remains as	it	is. That	supreme	abode	is	called unmanifested	and	infallible,	and it	is	the	supreme	destination.	When	one	goes there,	he never comes	back.	That	is	My supreme	abode.”Everything	is	present in Vaikuṇṭha loka.	There	we	can	have	an eternal,blissful life	full of knowledge(sac-cid-ānanda).It	is	not	compulsory for us to rot in this material world.

Our Real Eternal Home   (Part 1)

The	easiest	way	to go to the	Vaikuṇṭha lokas is: Simply try	to understand	Kṛṣṇa.	Why does He come? What are	His activities? Where	does	He	come	from?	Why	does	He	come in the	form	of a	human	being? We only have to	try	to	understand this and study Kṛṣṇa as	He	explains	Himself in	Bhagavad-gītā.	What	is	the	difficulty? God personally explains Himself as	He	is,and if	we	accept	Bhagavad-gītā	as it	is, we	shall	no longer have to transmigrate.We	shall	no	longer have to endure birth and death,for we	can	attain our spiritual	bodies made of eternity-knowledge-bliss, and live happily in Kṛṣṇa’s	family.

Our Real Eternal Home  (Part 2)

Kṛṣṇa is providing	for	us	here, and	He	will	also provide	for	us	there.	So	we	should	know that	our	happiness	is	 in returning home,	back	to Godhead,	where	we	can	eat, drink and	be	merry	in Kṛṣṇa’s company.

Our Real Eternal Home  (Part 3)

Chapter 7 : Knowledge of the Absolute Text 15Lord Krishna said : Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me.

Who Don't Surrender To Krishna

Out of the 8,400,000 different species of living beings, there are 400,000 human forms. 900,000 varieties of material bodies in the water, 2,000,000 vegetable bodies, 1,100,000 worms and reptiles, 1,000,000 forms of birds, 3,000,000 different bodies of beasts forms. Altogether there are 8,400,000 varieties of bodies in different planets of the universe, and the living entity is traveling by so many transmigrations according to different modes of enjoying spirit within himself.

8.4 Million Species In Material Universe

Chapter 7: Knowledge of the AbsoluteTEXT 19Lord Krishna said : After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.

Who Surrenders Unto Krishna

Although krishna has unlimited opulences, 6 of them are primary which are strength,fame,wealth,knowledge,beauty and renunciation.Krishna has all these opulences in fullness. Even a common man has some of these opulences in minute quantity but no man has any of opulence in fullness.

6 Primary Opulences Of Krishna 

Chapter 5 :Karma-yoga- Action in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Text 29Lord Krishna said : I am the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, one who knows me attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.

Who Is Krishna ?

Chapter 9 : The Most Confidential Knowledge Text 10Lord Krishna Said : This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.

Who controls Nature ? 

Chapter 13 Nature,the enjoyer and consciousness.Lord Krishna said : Renunciation of the objects of sense gratification,absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest,and evenmindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events;constant and unalloyed devotion to Me,resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people;accepting the importance of self-realization,and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth-all these I thus declare to be knowledge,and what is contrary to these is ignorance.

What Is Knowledge ?

Chapter 2 Text 13 Lord Krishna said : As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.

What happens after DEATH ?  

Chapter 2 Text 14Lord Krishna said : The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

How  To Be Equipoised In Both Happiness And Distress . 

Chapter 8 Verse 6 Lord Krishna saidWhatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.The cumulative effect of the thoughts and actions of one's life influences one's thoughts at the moment of death; therefore the actions of this life determine one's future state of being.If one is transcendentally absorbed in Krsna's service,then his next body will be transcendental (spiritual), not physical.Therefore the chanting of Hare Krsna is the best process for successfully changing one's state of being to transcendental life.

How One Gets Next Body At Death

Bhagavad Gita (Song of God)  : Words that came directly through the lips of God.

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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is

⚾ one of my favourite quotes of all times

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Theory is useful but not 100%

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Hope is a waking dream.

5 Life lessons from Aristotle - Part 1

“To illustrate a principle, you must exaggerate much and you must omit much.”

Power of Exageration

This is my conversation with Artifical Intelligence. This AI using advanced system GPT-3.In this question-answer style, i used new style of conversation. It’s based on philosophical style. But this kind of conversation is not regular type of philosophical thinking, it’s beyond philosophy, it’s meta philosophy.Although mostly they had no fixed standardisation of how we do meta philosophy, but i have my own concept of how we do meta philosophizing. It’s by philosophizing using axioms.Mostly they thought, axiom must be related to math. The fact is that axiom can be found on any area of our life.

Axiomatic Conversation

In fact, in physics known as postulate, lower than axiom in math. But some of them can be converted into axiom. This asserts that there are some law of physics have absolute degree as axiom in math, such as “law of energy” (energy can’t be destroyed and can’t be created, can only be changed to a different form).If we can start to initiate the way we do philosophizing using axiom (outside math), then in the future, scientist won’t depend to math just to support their physics theory. Since using axioms, scientists have confident to assert their own theory as axiom.

Axioms as Universal Truth

In this case i will show you applying axiom on conversation with GPT-3. Not just involving axiom but the way i did thinking also based on axiomatic structure of thinking.Mostly on GPT-3 were failed to did conversation with axiomatic reasoning. But i did try to guide the conversation, so that GPT-3 AI knew its failure and made great adjustment.

Failure & Adjustment on GPT-3

I did this to show you that AI GPT-3 was great, but there is still one tiny weakness. AI can’t tackle axiomatic reasoning, it’s because the system has no high rank corpus (axiomatic). It can be accepted since philosophy in general didn’t know what axiom was.They did thinking by trying to find consistent truth without notice that there are high rank beyond consistent truth, axioms, as universal truth.Through this conversation, hopefully we have new awareness of how important axioms truth (non mathematical) to elevate AI to a highest level of thinking, so that we get benefit from AI even better.

General Philosophy

Another benefit of inserting corpus based on axioms, this will put AI having standarisation to identify the boundary of the truth, so that using AI + axioms, we can unpack the mystery of life, universe, quantum and so forth without being trapped by paradox & contradiction anymore.Bottom line? We can see things as is, we can see the farthest boundary of the truth, so that we can use these to make proper consideration closer to a fairness.

Corpus Based on Axioms - Benefit

<a href="https://metaphilosophia.tumblr.com/post/692099758083457024/seremonia-gpt-3-axiomatic-conversation">Axiomatic Conversation</a>If you wish to provide axiomatic corpus, i am here <a href="https://t.me/MetaUniversa">Meta Universa</a>

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Seremonia & GPT-3

Your prayer is merely a petition, it is a demand that you should be satisfied, therefore it is not prayer at all. You say to God, 'I am suffering, please gratify me; please give me back my brother, my son. Please make me rich. You are perpetuating your own demands, and that is obviously not prayer. The real thing is to understand yourself, to see why you are perpetually asking for something, why there is in you this demand, this urge to beg. The more you know yourself through awareness of what you are thinking, what you are feeling, the more you will discover the truth of 'what is';

To understand God, first you must understand your own mind

This comprehensive record of Krishnamurti's teachings is an excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the great philosopher's thought. With among others, Jacob Needleman, Alain Naude, and Swami Venkatasananda, Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition; the need for awareness of 'cosmic consciousness; the problem of good and evil; and traditional Vedanta methods of help for different levels of seekers.

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The Awakening of Intelligence

A few years back, a government science agency did a poll to try to understand the public’s perceptions of the work they funded. One of the biggest surprises was how people felt about public funding for “basic research.” Most people felt the government should not be spending tax money on “basic research” at all. Instead, those funds should go into “advanced research”. The results showed a clear gap between what scientists mean by basic research, and what almost everyone else thinks it means.

Non-Scientists Misunderstand What Basic Research Is

For scientists, basic research really means fundamental research. But to understand its meaning even better, we need to contrast the idea of “basic” with that of “applied.” There is no immediate application for the fruits of basic research. They will not immediately become a gizmo in our next car or a molecule in our next medicine. Instead, the point of basic research is something far less tangible: pure understanding. That is why scientists call it fundamental. The goal is to understand some aspect of a subject at its most essential level.

Basic Research = Fundamental Research 

The history of scientific research is full of helpful examples. In 1905, for instance, Albert Einstein published his epoch-making paper on the theory of special relativity, which focused on the most basic concepts physics uses to understand everything: matter, motion, and energy. The versions of those concepts that still prevailed at that time had been developed a few hundred years earlier by Isaac Newton.

Basic Research Examples

Einstein saw how limited were Newton’s descriptions of these fundamental players in physics. The relationships Newtonian physics described between, say, energy and motion (i.e., velocity) did not tell the whole story. Einstein developed a more basic, more fundamental understanding of such relationships, and in the process, he gave physics new equations like E = mc2 .Einstein’s basic research changed the world forever. A list of the actual downstream applications from his paper would easily be as long as 2 ft. and would include everything from radiation therapy to hyper-accurate GPS satellites.

Basic Research Changes The World Forever

When Einstein was working on this paper, he was not thinking about how these formulas would be applied to any particular industry, or to the medical field. He was no doubt aware that his ideas would find such applications. They were too important not to become the foundation for new machines and new techniques that would affect everyday life. But applications were just not what he was doing or why he was doing it.

Basic Research Is After Pure Understanding

The Einstein example shows that basic research is, indeed, very advanced. In fact, it is the most advanced of all the kinds of research out there, because it pushes at the frontiers of knowledge. In today’s world, such basic research takes many forms. In cosmology, it is about understanding the first few instants after the big bang. In biology, it is about understanding how life uses information to carry out its most basic tasks. In cognitive science, it is about understanding how the brain sorts its many inputs into what is relevant and what is not.

The Fringes And The Frontiers

The most important point about basic research is that it is almost always the key to cutting-edge applied research. All of the specific applied research that led to the zillions of technological marvels we encounter every day began with someone asking a very basic question, applied to nothing.What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.

Asking A Very Basic Question, Applied To Nothing

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Everything should be done as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

A lesson on basic research that doubles as a reminder on the impact of words. “Basic research” is not “base-level”, but actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.

What we call "basic research" is the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.

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What Einstein Did Was “Basic Research”. Wait, What?

Consciousness is the experiential quality of existence. It's whatever feels to be us. Consciousness operates with sensory inputs (images, sounds etc) ... but ultimately is a black box form a scientific point of view. But since each of this experience is fundamentally personal we can not build on it. What we do is equate existence with what we can explain with words, abstract concepts and so on. These are important but they are not an accurate representation of existence.

Consciousness is LIGHTS ON

We live with the delusion we are the authors of our thoughts. That there is a small dictator in our brain thinking stuff. However upon investigation thoughts seem to come up independent of a self. Subjectively though just emerge. "You don't pick your thought or opinions"Meditation & psychedelics (LSD etc) are tools to break this spell. With consistence practice it become clear that the real freedom begins once these attachment to identify with our thoughts is let go. You are not the originator of consciousness, you are consciousness. Consciousness is a mediator between "us" and the reality.

Breaking the spell of self with meditation & psychedelics

At the extremes consciousness can be a side-effect of information processing (neurons firing in our brain causing this feeling of "being me") or panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe (atoms are conscious).Sam Harris is agnostic on the scientific issue. However while the scientific approach has merits, he thinks our methodology is wrong. We tend to break reality into mind and matter, a Western division that (upon investigation) does not match our lived experience.

The sources of consciousness

Sam Harris didn't try DMT, mainly because he does look at its effects as psychotic. After ingestion (usually through smoking) people are "teleported" to the center of the universe where they claim to meet aliens or angels. This fundamentally different than an "acid trip" (LSD) where your openness to reality heightens.

Psychedelics vs psychotic drugs

Sam Harris's problem with general AI is that it might get to a level where a robot behaves like a conscious being. And since conscious is a scientific mystery still we will have no other option but to believe them. Because consciousness is an experience more than an explanation. Life is not a something that can be explained but something that needs to be experienced. So we might have perfect imitations of conscious behaviour but we have no way of knowing if that's real or not.

AI and Conscious Robots

Sam Harris thinks free will is an illusion. He combined scientific materialism or Buddhism non-dualism to reach this conclusion. The practical element is just that hate stops making sense: "If we cannot assign blame to the workings of the universe, how can evil people be held responsible for their actions? In the deepest sense, it seems, they can’t be. But in a practical sense, they must be. I see no contradiction in this." Harris argues that once we accept the truth of determinism, we’ll be less concerned about assigning blame and seeking retribution via punishment.

The illusion of free will & the futility of hate

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