<2022-01-02T16:06:37.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: you're clearly not new here, what's your deal lol
<2022-01-02T16:08:45.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: yes I have an old phone with clean android install for this purpose
<2022-01-02T16:11:56.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: Are you Buddhist? 
<2022-01-02T20:42:48.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: haven't heard of him. I know my most recent past human life but you'll never hear me say anything about it publicly. also lmao at "In this episode I am joined by Delson Armstrong, spiritual teacher and star student of Bhante Vimalaramsi, who’s senior student David Johnson has said ‘Delson Armstrong has mastered every practice we have given him. He is the most amazing student we have ever seen.’"
<2022-01-02T22:56:48.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: nirodha isn't particularly hard depending on the definition (classically/abhidharmically, it's just the temporary cessation or dissolution of the six gross consciousnesses, which is a feature of emptiness meditation on both yogacara and madhyamaka accounts)
<2022-01-02T22:57:47.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: Mahayanists don't tend to use that language and frankly neither do classical Theravadins, there is an active traditional Vipassanna system but to my knowledge their terminology isn't quite so Abhidharmic
<2022-01-02T22:59:32.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: meaning, "nirodha" as a concept has philosophical baggage attached that are unacceptable for various reasons, so for example in the Indian tantric Buddhist context (which is what Tibet absorbed) there's a lot more discussion of "light" metaphors for what happens during emptiness meditation
<2022-01-02T23:02:59.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: actually a lot of Mahayana philosophy (particularly but not exclusively Yogacara) derives from discussions about what exactly nirodhasamapatti is. if the six gross consciousnesses are the full extent of citta and caitta, then what persists? what accounts for the fact that meditators can enter and exit it?
<2022-01-02T23:04:24.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: there are different names it's not like, one particular thing
<2022-01-02T23:04:28.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I don't know how to explain
<2022-01-02T23:04:37.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: like that would fall under certain life-preservation type abilities
<2022-01-02T23:04:58.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: being able to survive on nothing but the alchemical elements (eating air for sustenance), that sort of thing
<2022-01-02T23:05:08.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: it's cool but not like what it's all about and can be just a distraction
<2022-01-02T23:06:42.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: just being able to do that doesn't mean you have realization, and having realization doesn't necessarily mean you'd be able to do that
<2022-01-02T23:07:00.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: lol
<2022-01-02T23:07:14.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: yeah I guess I can check him out but this sounds like grifting or a psyop or both
<2022-01-02T23:07:44.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: there can be legitimate reasons to self proclaim like that 
<2022-01-02T23:08:18.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: ok I'll read his book, or at least look through it
<2022-01-02T23:08:25.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: is it on libgen? I"m not sending him money
<2022-01-02T23:08:29.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: what is the title
<2022-01-02T23:29:31.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I'll check out his book, he has it for free online which is a good sign
<2022-01-02T23:47:00.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: you can probably convert it with calibre
<2022-01-03T00:53:22.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I see
<2022-01-03T00:53:29.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: that sounds like way more effort than it's worth lmao
<2022-01-08T21:53:22.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I really hate "price predictions" but I think long term it is a winner
<2022-01-08T21:54:00.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: it solves several important problems
<2022-01-08T22:00:17.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: uhhhh lol no it is not
<2022-01-08T22:00:35.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: it's a public ledger platform for private computation 
<2022-01-08T22:11:20.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: LOL
<2022-01-18T17:51:44.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I regret to inform you that Delson Armstrong is a fraud
<2022-01-18T17:53:11.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I could tell a very similar story using the exact same words about how I did Hindu yoga in the Himalayas (I probably would more street cred than him tbh given that he doesn't go into any detail while I could tell you, it was at a major Shiva pilgrimage site innawoods with a real renunciate type living by himself by a river) 
<2022-01-18T17:53:28.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I mean that's if I want it to sound grandiose which I don't for many reasons
<2022-01-18T17:53:43.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: in reality I dicked around some asanas for a few days
<2022-01-18T17:54:28.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: point being, his book and organization are ludicrous and mostly just consist of fair use Sutta copypasta with a little warmed over Goenka style Vipassanna stuff
<2022-01-18T17:55:13.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: given that I would say it's probably mostly harmless except to the extent it might prevent or delay people from connecting with an authentic Buddhist teacher or tradition 
<2022-01-18T17:55:30.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: but this is not a properly *malicious* grift 