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Nonabiding does not mean clearing your memory

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It means disabling the cache

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A viewer left a comment under my Diamond Sutra video

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with a really good question

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He said

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Does nonabiding

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mean wiping your memory clean

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with no templates left

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How much computing power would you need

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for the mind to arise then

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If everything is empty

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what could it arise from

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This is a great question

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because it comes from the intuition of someone in tech

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And that intuition

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lands on a very common misunderstanding

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So today I want to take an entire episode

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to answer it properly

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Hello

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everyone

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I am Leo Wang

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First let me say

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this viewer was not asking at random

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His reasoning seems airtight

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Let me lay it out in full

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and see if it matches your thinking

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Step one

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Nonabiding

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means the mind clings to nothing

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Step two

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The mind clings to nothing

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so there is nothing in the brain

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Nothing in the brain

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means no memories

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no templates

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and no knowledge base

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Step four

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How does a brain without a knowledge base function

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Must it calculate everything from scratch each time

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How much computing power would that take

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Step five

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Even with that computing power

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if you have emptied everything

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what can you use to bring forth a responsive mind

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Surely you cannot create something from nothing

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You see

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this whole chain of reasoning is built on equal signs

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Every step seems reasonable

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But the problem is the equal sign between steps one and two

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The mind clinging to nothing

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is equated with having nothing in the brain

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That switches the meaning of the terms

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What the Buddha means by not clinging

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and what you imagine as clearing everything out

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are completely different things

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What I want to do today

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is find that exact point where the meaning shifts

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and separate the two ideas

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I will use something you use every day

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The browser on your phone

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You open a webpage

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The browser downloads all its images text and videos

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and stores them

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in a place called the cache

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The next time you open that same page

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the browser does not download it again

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It retrieves the cached version for you

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The advantage is speed

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What is the downside

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The downside is

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if that webpage has been updated

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you still see the old version

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You think you are reading the news today

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but you are actually seeing a snapshot from yesterday

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Your brain

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is a browser full of cached pages

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Whenever you see someone

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your brain is not observing how they are right now

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It retrieves a snapshot of the last time they upset you

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Then it puts that snapshot in front of you

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and makes you think that is who you see

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You spend the whole day with this person

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You think you interacted with them

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but you spent it interacting with your own cache

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Their actual emotions

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that look today that might signal a wish to reconnect

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the new meaning in their words

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are all blocked by your cache

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It is not that you saw nothing

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Your brain took the new signals you saw

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and threw them away

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because it thought the old cached version was good enough

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That is how abiding actually works

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When the mind abides somewhere

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it does not mean your brain is full

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It means one particular cached entry

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has been pinned to the top

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and treated as the truth

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When you deal with the present

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you stop checking the real world

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You consult that locked cache instead

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Now look again at let the mind arise without abiding anywhere

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What those words are saying

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looks completely different

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They do not tell you to delete the cache

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They tell you to stop loading it automatically

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All your memories experience and templates remain

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Not a single one is missing

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The knowledge you have gathered over fifty years

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the face of your mother

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your ability to drive speak and read

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all remain completely intact

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The Buddha never told you to become empty headed

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He was saying

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when you encounter a new situation

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do not reflexively paste an old cached snapshot over reality

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and react to that snapshot

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So the answer turns the question around

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It is not what can arise once everything is empty

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It is only by disabling the cache

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that something can truly arise

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While the cache is running

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what arises is not a fresh response of the mind

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It is a conditioned reflex

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an automatic reply hijacked by the past

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Does that count as arising

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It is actually lifeless

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It is a response template created in some situation twenty years ago

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For the mind to truly arise

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is for a response to grow from the real signals of this moment

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It does not need more computing power

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It needs fewer presets loaded in advance

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Let me bring in an analogy

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that anyone in tech will understand instantly

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A pattern has appeared in large language models over the past two years

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Some call it rigid thinking

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If in a single conversation

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you repeatedly ask a model to answer in a certain way

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it can get trapped by its own earlier answers

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You clearly ask a new question

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but it still replies in the old pattern

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Because its context window is full of the previous conversation

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it treats all that earlier material as a strong signal

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so its output increasingly repeats what came before

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Some in the field call this context contamination

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How do you fix it

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The simplest way

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is to start a new conversation

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and clear the context

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The same model

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the same question

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can produce a completely different and fresher answer

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It has not become smarter

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What was cleared was the context

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not the model parameters

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Those tens of billions or even trillions of parameters

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all its knowledge and abilities

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have not lost a single byte

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is only the temporary cache interfering with the present judgment

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the model returns to a clearer state

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with more freedom to generate something new

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This is let the mind arise without abiding anywhere

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mapped onto a silicon system

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The model parameters stand for your original mind

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The context window stands for your fixations

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The Buddha is not telling you to delete all the model parameters

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He is telling you to empty that temporarily filled context window

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so that every response to the present

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arises in real time from your whole original mind

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instead of being pulled from a few thousand words of contaminated context

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So the computing power problem

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simply does not arise

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A system with its cache disabled

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may actually use less computing power

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because it no longer maintains so much outdated temporary data

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You think old impressions save you effort

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but keeping those impressions alive

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requires comparison retrieval and updating every time

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The computing power that consumes

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is far greater than you imagine

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What you call mental exhaustion in daily life

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is not caused by too many new thoughts

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It comes from your brain repeatedly loading the same old cache

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the same past hurt

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the same worry about the future

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the same judgment of yourself

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playing automatically in your head hundreds of times a day

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What exhausts you is not thinking

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It is this pointless replay

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Nonabiding

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does not mean you stop thinking

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It means you stop this replay

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The computing power you free up

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can go toward truly experiencing this moment

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Now I can return to the second part of that question

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If everything is empty

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what can anything arise from

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Within that question

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lies a deeper misunderstanding

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It assumes the mind is a container

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with things stored inside

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and once emptied there is nothing left

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But the mind is not a container

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The mind is a process

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Let me use another analogy

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A river

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What is in a river

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Now remove all the water present at this instant

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Is the river still a river

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the water is gone

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so the river is empty

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But a river is not a container

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It is the ongoing process of water flowing

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and new water arrives in the next

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What makes a river a river

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is not how much water it holds

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but the fact that it keeps flowing

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Your mind is the same

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You imagine your mind as a box

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filled with memories emotions and thoughts

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Empty it and nothing remains

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But the mind is not that box

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The mind is the flow of awareness working from moment to moment

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You see hear feel and understand

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At the very moment those activities happen

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that is mind

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This flow is always there

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It needs nothing loaded into it to function

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You worry that emptiness leaves no mind to arise

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because you see the mind as a fixed collection of contents

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But the contents are not the mind

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They are only the things flowing through it

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like water flowing through a riverbed

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The water is not the river

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It is simply what happens to pass through at this moment

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In the Platform Sutra

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Huineng hears those words

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and awakens on the spot

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This is what he realizes

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he could not read

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and had no store of book learning

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he should have been among the emptiest

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Yet he was the one who first saw the river

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The literate had filled their minds with so much content

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that they mistook themselves for that collection of contents

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Huineng did not carry that burden

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On hearing let the mind arise without abiding anywhere

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he directly saw himself as the very flow of awareness

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In that instant of seeing

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Letting the mind arise was never a heavy task requiring resources

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It happens naturally and lightly when the obstacles are removed

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This is the most important reversal I want to share today

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Most people think awakening is a process of addition

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I need to learn more

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practice more

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and gain more

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before I can reach that state

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But the whole Prajnaparamita tradition tells you

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the exact opposite

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Awakening is a process of subtraction

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Your task is not to fill yourself up

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but to disable the caches between your original mind and reality one by one

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With each one you disable

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you move closer to that fresh arising of the mind

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Concepts have not formed

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Labels have not been attached

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Preconceptions are almost absent

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Look into those eyes

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That attention that direct contact with the world

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is it not what we spend a lifetime practicing to recover

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The baby needs no computing power

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and has nothing stored away

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yet responds freshly to life at every moment

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Why is that possible

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Because there is still so little cached

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Growing up

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is in part a process of accumulating more and more cache

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Every hurt

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every judgment from others

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every instruction to do this and not that

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writes another cache entry into your brain

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By forty

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you have millions of entries stacked in your head

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At your first glimpse of someone

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millions of entries activate at once

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You finish labeling the person

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before you even begin to know them

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Between you and the world

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stand those millions of cache entries

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Whether it is Zen meditation

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insight meditation

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or reading the Diamond Sutra

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at heart they are not teaching you to acquire things

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They teach you to stop automatically loading those caches one by one

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When you reach the end

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you do not return to the ignorance of a baby

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You retain all your knowledge experience and abilities

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while recovering that infantlike directness in responding to the world

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This is a remarkably developed state

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You have the abilities of an adult

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and the clarity of an infant

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This state is not motionless

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or indifferent

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It is life at its most abundant

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because all your attention sensitivity and understanding

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are no longer consumed by internal struggles with your cache

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They meet the present directly

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Let me return to the original question

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The viewer asked

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How much computing power does it take for the mind to arise

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Now I can give a clear answer

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It is not about needing more computing power

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It is about freeing it up

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If you feel exhausted now

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unable to respond with a fresh mind

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unable to cope

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it is not because your system lacks computing power

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It is because ninety percent of that power

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is maintaining caches you do not need

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Every day you replay conversations with your ex

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maintaining an emotional cache

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Every day you worry about bad things that might happen

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maintaining a fear cache

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Every day you argue with someone in your head

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maintaining a relationship cache

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Every day you judge where you fall short

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maintaining a self image cache

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Maintaining these caches

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consumes over ninety percent of your computing power

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You use the remaining ten percent to face the actual present

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Of course it feels insufficient

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Of course you feel exhausted

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Nonabiding

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does not ask you to tackle life with more computing power

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It asks you to switch off that ninety percent

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Your total computing power has not changed

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but the amount available

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jumps from ten percent to one hundred percent

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That one change

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transforms your whole state of being

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So letting the mind arise

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has never been about needing more resources

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It is about reallocating them

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The Buddha did not ask you to become a computational superhuman

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He only asked you to stop wasting the capacity you already have

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on internal conflict

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At this point

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I want to take the question a step further

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Notice

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I used a large language model as an analogy for the mind today

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But this analogy

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has limits

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Because even now a large model

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even with a cleared context window

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can only generate within the bounds set by its training data

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It struggles to produce anything truly beyond that coverage

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What it brings forth

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is largely a kind of interpolation

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or recombination

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But the human mind

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in its most complete state of nonabiding

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seems capable of bringing forth something entirely new

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The verses Huineng composed after awakening

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according to the Platform Sutra

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came from a man who could not read

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He recited them and others wrote them down

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Where did they come from

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That brings us to a question I still cannot answer

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If disabling the cache removes the obstacles

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then once those obstacles are gone

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what is it that actually

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brings something forth

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Can it be reproduced in a silicon system

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Or

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is there a fundamental difference here between silicon and carbon

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Even when a large model clears all its context

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it still generates using statistical patterns fixed in its parameters

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But at certain moments the human mind

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seems able to step beyond all statistical patterns

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and touch something more fundamental

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I do not know

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That is also why over these years

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I have kept thinking about the relationship between AI and consciousness

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Large models have allowed me for the first time

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to see in a very concrete way

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how the human mind operates

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That is what they have helped me do

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But they have also helped me see more clearly

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that there are things in the human mind

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that current AI architectures cannot simulate

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Those things

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may be what opened up when Huineng heard those words

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This question

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I cannot answer

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I leave it with you just as it is

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If you are willing

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give yourself ten minutes before bed tonight

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Choose a scene you kept replaying today

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Maybe a conversation an expression or words left unsaid

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Treat it like a browser tab

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You do not need to delete it

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You do not need to pretend it never happened

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You only need to do one thing

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Find the automatic refresh switch

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and turn it off

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Then see

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in the space no longer occupied by that old scene

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what comes forth

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Whatever comes forth

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is the mind arising right before you

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It needs no extra computing power

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It only needs you to stop feeding it old snapshots

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If you try this

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come back and tell me what you saw

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Or if you disagree with the analogy I used today

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tell me that too

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I read every comment you leave

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And one more thing

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Which direction would you most like me

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to explore more deeply next

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the question of silicon consciousness

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or the Prajnaparamita tradition

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Let me know in the comments

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I am Leo Wang

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See you next time