Friday Ephemeraren’t

Farnsworth seems grumpier than usual. Is this a perverse New Year’s resolution?
Also, what of the blowtorch?

Following Farnsworth’s resolution example, this year I resolve to:
—gain 5 pounds
—drink more Coke Zero
—get up later
—become a couch potato
—not improve myself in any way
I think I can keep all these resolutions.

Following Farnsworth’s resolution example, this year I resolve to:
—gain 5 pounds
According to the current numbers, at this moment, that should easily get achieved with about seven bucks . . .

Why are SJWs such drama queens?
Many of them are deeply damaged people with poor emotional self-regulation, attracted to the social justice ideology as a form of dysfunctional coping mechanism.
And some of them are just pretentious wankers.
a reminder that snow makes people stupid
I live in Canada, where we are somewhat famed for copious amounts of snow, and yet every year at the turning of the solstice we must be treated to the spectacle of people apparently blissfully unaware of, say, the last forty years frozen water fell from the sky my God it’s the apocalypse.
I think my favorite story in this vein was watching an Ottawa Transit bus turn a corner, fishtail like an American muscle car driven by an aging John Schneider, and avoid wiping out a bus shelter full of huddled, terrified transitgoers only by virtue of the four-foot berm of ice and snow left in front of it by the snowplow.
I sincerely hope the berm factored into the bus driver’s calculations.

Are you assuming it’s unintentional?
I try to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Well, as none have been cited…
Other than the CIIS itself and Kelly himself whose woo I quoted, but as you have evidently been so transfixed by him that you can’t, or won’t, look past the veneer, lets us look deeper, and not just at the fact that as a social worker he keeps banging on about being a “psychotherapist” which, though accurate only in the broadest and vaguest definitions of “psychotherapy”, is a tell for someone trying to conflate a lesser skill set with that of a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist. Think of it in the same way as PhDs in Angry and Useless Studies demanding to be called “Doctor”.

[Kelly]…was invited to teach direct realization by Adyashanti.

Adyashanti, AKA Steven Gray. “Adyashanti, like his teacher, has invited several of his students to “share the Dharma”, which means independently teach to other students.” So Kelly did what everyone else did, but hey Gray was on Oprah, and if that isn’t a credential, nothing is.

[Kelly]…studied extensively with Mingyur Rinpoche…

[Mingyur Rinpoche] “He has authored two best-selling books and oversees the Tergar Meditation Community, a global network of Buddhist meditation centers.” At least this guy is a real Tibetan, but apparently yet another jet-set monk living large in the west.

[From Kelly’s blog]…Here are some words of wisdom and compassion to contemplate from Matthieu Ricard…

You can read all about M. Ricard here and aside from wondering why he threw away his top shelf education as a molecular geneticist, marvel at the asceticism of him banging away at his macbook at the World Economic Forum in the manner of all “monks”.
Regarding the blog, go read it where you can find Deep Thoughts™ like:

Open-hearted awareness begins with awareness of awareness. It is an essence approach, also called the direct approach. The open-hearted awareness approach focuses on uncovering or discovering our essential nature and then shifting our level of mind to live from open-hearted awareness.

Right. “I’ve been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones.”
The fact is this pseudo-Eastern twaddle has been around since the 50s and 60s when people started reading Kerouac, dropping acid, and the Beatles courted Maharishi Mahesh. If you need it to get through the day, well, bless your heart, but don’t expect those of us seen 50+ years of all the rehashed and repackaged iterations of this flummery to buy the latest version either.

I’ll just leave this here. Note the large sample size from which grand conclusions are drawn and educational mandates are given.

I’ll just leave this here.
See today’s ‘elsewhere’ post. Best to point comments that way, I think.

Other than the CIIS itself . . . .
My dear boy, 50+ or no, it’s nice of you to go woolgathering through the assorted websites, However.
Your textual hand waving fails again. Period.
You even actually quote some of those “big words” that you keep also flinching away from, I’ll help you with that too.
—Now, I definitely will grant that you may have met hipsters who did exactly what you are doing, where They know they’re big words, and they know they’re “impo’tant” ’cause they’ve all heard [various and assorted] use them, but in practice, it’s obvious they have no idea what they mean.
For that sort of reaction to such random recitation, I quite absolutely agree with you, ignore the hipsters, they’re hipsters.
So, to be more blatant so you will not keep missing the points; As stated before,

—There is one talk by Kelly—out of masses of similar material—that recently reminded me of someone I was working with awhile back. The coworker’s comment one time was to the effect of I drink to make my brain shut up.
So, with that statement, my coworker is noting that he just is, and that there is thinking that goes on, but also that he is not the thinking, he is not the same thing as the brain. And then in parallel what Kelly is commenting on is to note that thinking occurs—yes, thinking is very, very useful and having it on hand is a really good idea, but thinking—also known as the chattering monkey mind—is different from what you are.

As a presentational rephrase, that link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEXng_GsrFM. That link is not any of your preferred websites of general introductory commentary, that link is an example of Something You Can Test Yourself—but you actually have to do that test instead of running off in denial.
Of that test, I have zero idea of what your reaction will be, what results you’ll get, if you may genuinely wind up with I got nothing . . . but that uncertainty is part of observing results and reporting ’em . . .
For stuff you cite without reading:

Open-hearted awareness begins with awareness of awareness. It is an essence approach, also called the direct approach. The open-hearted awareness approach focuses on uncovering or discovering our essential nature and then shifting our level of mind to live from open-hearted awareness.

When your tooth hurts, you are aware of the pain of the tooth, that is not thinking. When you step on something slippery, speaking of ice, you have awareness that you might now fall over, you don’t start thinking that Oh, look, something slippery, I’d better start thinking about doing something with balance. When you get hungry, your stomach reacts to the lack of recent food, and you then have the awareness and only then do you start thinking Oh, now I’m hungry. The chattering monkey just chatters, but that is just thinking running amok instead of being useful. And as it chatters, you are aware that there is that train of thought that just keeps going in your head . . . and you are aware that you don’t have some voice in your head, you are aware that Oh. that’s just thinking that I do, where again, the I is separate from the thinking.
As Pogonip chimed in, I have found the best way to deal with the monkey mind is to ignore it. She is not the monkey mind, she is aware that the train of thought is not the person being aware of that train of thought.
You are attempting to dodge with The fact is this pseudo-Eastern twaddle has been around since the 50s and 60s when . . . when hipsters were being hipsters and still are, and we are not discussing merely 50 to 70 years ago, the concept(s) being discussed go back at least plus or minus 2,500 years. Granting that with hipsters, For you will always have the hipster among you., hipsters just don’t have that longevity . . .
I did note in passing that you cited . . ..Loch teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science and psychotherapy…
Yes. Non sectarian, for just one part of that. If you actually look at that video instead of running away screaming, there aren’t any comments on lineage, tradition, Be Impressed By Me. The point is and remains look at what is presented and test it yourself, instead of attempting to reply with mere blind, enraged, pointless denial.
You read and contribute here, you know better than that.
What is at that link is instead is a discussion of what people encounter every day. —Quoting Pogonip again,
Well, I for one have a great attention span, with ferocious concen—
Hey, look! An owl!
If you want to claim that you have seen Kelly’s commentary before and it fails, then you are also going to cite names, dates, references. You are going to give us something more than the rehashed and repackaged iterations of this flummery that you keep wildly waving at us instead of actually looking, instead of actually reading, instead of being aware.
Expecting hipsters to back up empty words is an excellent idea, and is also expected of you.
Here: You’re Not the Voices in Your Head
Instead of posting random website quotes that you haven’t really read, report your experience of that.

Farnsworth; . . . it is obvious you have a lot of emotional, and probably financial, resources tied up in . . . screaming vehement denials.
You have been outright handed an opportunity to go to one short video, to take each comment by Kelly and tear it apart, by using his own video, using his own words, and you have, so far, completely failed.
. . . but I think this is probably not the best place to be looking for converts,
Ah, but no one is looking for converts. I point out something that can be tested by direct experience in mere minutes, and you recoil in denial.

Expecting hipsters to back up empty words is an excellent idea, and is also expected of you.

Here: You're Not the Voices in Your Head

Instead of posting random website quotes that you haven't really read, report your experience of that.

. . . something of which I am aware.
Regarding the totally unrelated video that you are attempting to deflect with, I do commend the musician.

I’m curious about http://thecuria.com/ Is it just a bunch of essays? Does it have some overall purpose?

I’m curious about http://thecuria.com/
Assorted essays.
Think of an idea or note an observation, type it up, post, have on hand for reference as needed. Have the reference sections on hand for related recommendations.
As noted at the top, Watcher Point is the site for more or less doing the same with movie and media related Stuff.