JayLeClay on Nostr: I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the similarities between “crypto” and ...
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the similarities between “crypto” and “spirituality.”
Both have charlatans, salesmen, and aspiring influencers. Ultimately, it’s up to each individual to avoid identifying with the spiritual path, or relying too much on the student-disciple frame, or become trapped by a guru or specific teaching, and, instead, to see for themselves, directly. In a way, you could say that consciousness is “open source,” in that it’s available for anyone to inspect the code of perceptual/conceptual reality for themselves.
Anyone can sit down and, after settling into stillness, look for what’s looking.
It’s just that few do.
Both have charlatans, salesmen, and aspiring influencers. Ultimately, it’s up to each individual to avoid identifying with the spiritual path, or relying too much on the student-disciple frame, or become trapped by a guru or specific teaching, and, instead, to see for themselves, directly. In a way, you could say that consciousness is “open source,” in that it’s available for anyone to inspect the code of perceptual/conceptual reality for themselves.
Anyone can sit down and, after settling into stillness, look for what’s looking.
It’s just that few do.