Beliefs are tricky (from TikTok LIVE)

The sense of a separate self may die, but these termites eating my house are still VERY much alive 😉 From today's TikTok livestream.

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0:00 Welcome, beliefs are tricky as the theme for today

0:53 The VPZD show as a dance between conditioning and audience reaction

2:03 How fighting for a cause is really fighting for identity

3:36 Advice on communicating needs to a partner

6:23 Book recommendations for exploring non-duality and self-dissolution

8:50 A partner's neediness as a mirror for your own conditioning

10:39 Doctor as just another identity that has fallen away

11:23 Finding meaning in a meaningless existence

13:18 Why human consciousness feels so negative

16:13 Letting go of the belief that you should be a positive person

17:09 Getting contradictory antivax and provax accusations back to back

18:13 Substituting one identity paradigm for another is still belief

20:15 Reflecting on the 30s, 40s, and 50s as different flavors of seeking

20:59 Flu shots, personal risk tolerance, and not telling others what to do

23:10 The shingles vaccine decision and weighing discomfort against risk

24:07 Nothing is happening, yet the characters keep playing out their story

25:15 Political yard signs causing friction with a spouse

26:13 Where do you see yourself in five million years

26:20 Sitting with the shock of losing a friend badly

28:09 What is the point of any of this

29:02 Termites, relative and ultimate reality, and why you still call the exterminator

30:38 Crystal's comment on programming and letting go of tribal fighting

32:12 The Macklemore and Ed Sheeran controversy revisited

39:59 Viewers pointing to Macklemore songs and other political art

43:09 Richard Wagner as an example of beauty coexisting with bigotry

43:50 Working with insects as a way to understand fear

44:45 Closing thoughts on why this Tik Tok live feels accepting