Daniel Schmachtenberger
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December 7th, 2021
just realized what is coercion? connects with scarcity / … › Jared Lucas > yeah, algorithms on social media
- Daniel Schmachtenberger was saying that one thing to optimize for might be "the inverse of addiction"
Dharma Inquiry Questions
- From Daniel Schmachtenberger.
- whose preface simply reads
- "The following are questions I find commonly useful in helping people gain greater insight into their unique life path and dharma"
- There are some paragraphs in the article after the preface, which describe some of the thinking. Here's a little:
- > Dharma, the way I hold it*, roughly means the path of right action; the path of greatest integrity; the path (of choices) that don’t create suffering and optimally helps heal it; the path that leads towards increasing wholeness, consciousness, health, and quality of life for all.
- > This relates to the concepts/words in English of mission, purpose, ethics, virtue, character, vocation, the good life, self-actualization, and transcendence… but is not fully contained in any of them separately. (The fact that there is no word or phrase for this in the English language is telling.)
- > There are principles of dharma that are universally true. And there is unique dharma — what is right action for me specifically in this situation, factoring my unique orientation, capacities, commitments — my unique life path.
- You can also get a lot of this by watching this youtube video
- In the video, he describes that the reason he starts with the capacities question is to help people discover which areas of their lives feel like their main limitations, and to think beyond those limitations. Otherwise everything else they ideate ends up being constrained by those assumptions of limitation.