Workshop, a virtual (schizophrenic) reality

There is a place where it's possible to meet up with people you can get along with.

Schizophrenia has you meet with people you cannot get along with. This place solves this problem by excluding them from your chat box.

The place, which I will call the workshop, has 9 tiers of focus groups.

Each focus group has it’s own self selected norms, which are enforced by the workshop.

It's possible to climb the tiers of focus groups - and this is a significant source of personal growth.

Every tier has people with excellent morals. The workshop allows those with excellent morals to communicate with each other, even if they are of different tiers.

Past Selves & Future Selves

It is possible to talk with your own past & future selves. It's not possible to talk with the past & future selves of someone else. Also, others in the chat box cannot hear you speak with your past & future selves.

When I say “past self”, I mean you in your previous lives. When I say “future self”, I mean your future lives. It is not possible to anchor you to a bigger or smaller time period.

There is an important danger when doing this. If you are talking with a past version of you, this problem of receiving something the sender did not say persists. This is always a crossover - you should check if the information you received is a crossover.

Can you, then, change the past? You cannot change the past that is under the domain of quantum time lock. However, there are still significant changes that are outside the domain of quantum time lock. These changes are still possible.

Can you, then, change the future? Here, we have to establish a caveat. The future that the future selves know is not the real future, it is just a nightmare. It's definitely possible to avert the nightmare.

Pseudo-Entites in Schizophrenia

Is it possible to interact with someone who is not there in reality? Here, I don't mean the trivial case of invoked sand box, crossover or install box - but a person who seemingly comes from the chat box itself.

It used to be possible - but now, I believe that the possibility has been removed.

It's possible to check if sand box, crossover or install box is operating, if you still have doubts.

Furthermore, is it possible for the connection to get corrupted, receive something that the sender did not say? It used to be possible - but I now believe that the possibility has been removed.

However, there is a caveat. If you are talking with a past version of you, this problem of receiving something the sender did not say persists. This is always a crossover - you should check if the information you received is a crossover.

On various ways of using schizophrenia

Schizophrenia has different functions, which I call boxes.

1. Chat Box: Chat Box let's you communicate with another schizophrenic with Chat Box. You can collapse the chat box & not receive any messages via chat box. It's possible to restart chat box at will.
2. Sand Box: let's you communicate with a simulation of someone. However, there is a constraint - you can only simulate those who don't have chat box enabled.
3. Secret Box: let’s you communicate privately with one person. They could be someone without schizophrenia or with schizophrenia. Either participant can collapse the box at will.
4. Crossover: If you have a question that an alternate self can answer, you can pose it to crossover.
5. Install Box: Install alternate versions of others (who are not there in your chat box)

pariyuṭṭhati: Partial

The worldling is partial to:

1. I'm materiality, materiality is mine
2. I'm feeling, feeling is mine
3. I'm perception, perception is mine
4. I'm personality, personality is mine
5. I'm consciousness, consciousness is mine

The itinerant hearer is not partial to:

1. I'm materiality, materiality is mine
2. I'm feeling, feeling is mine
3. I'm perception, perception is mine
4. I'm personality, personality is mine
5. I'm consciousness, consciousness is mine

(Note: Other translators have used the word obsession for pariyutthati)

Excerpt from AN 4:195

"Vappa, as for any obscurations causing trouble & vexation that arise in dependence on bodily activity: When one has abandoned bodily activity, those obscurations causing trouble & vexation do not exist for him. He does no new action [kamma], and as for old action, he destroys it with each mental image: a wasting away that is visible here & now, timeless, inviting inspection, pertinent, to be known by the observant for themselves"

Similarly for obscurations that arise in dependence on verbal activity, mental activity & ignorance (link).

Therefore, here are two meditation methods:

1. Abandon bodily activity, verbal activity, mental activity & ignorance.
2. Observe the non-existence of obscurations that could cause trouble & vexation.

Or:

1. Do no new kamma. 
2. Observe the wasting away of old kamma with each mental image.

Guild Unification #1: Different ways by which one can forfeit bodily viewpoint (sakkaya-ditthi)

One way is to arrive at the following viewpoints:

1. Materiality is not self
2. Feeling is not self
3. Perception is not self
4. Constitution is not self
5. Consciousness is not self

Similarly, a second way is:

1. The self is not materiality
2. The self is not feeling
3. The self is not perception
4. The self is not constitution
5. The self is not consciousness

A third way is:

1. There is no self in materiality
2. There is no self in feeling
3. There is no self in perception
4. There is no self in constitution
5. There is no self in consciousness

And a fourth way is:

1. There is no materiality in self
2. There is no feeling in self
3. There is no perception in self
4. There is no constitution in self
5. There is no consciousness in self