Chad WoodfordStrategic AI Counsel & Advisor | Attorney | Technology Philosopher

Let’s define #discernment first (highlights from my latest podcast)

5 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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Discernment is the ability to see increasing layers of truth, rooted in self-awareness that keeps ego from distorting reality. It requires a mind relatively free from craving and aversion, where truth becomes evident and shimmers before you.

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On one level, discernment is simply being able to see and understand and recognize increasing values of truth. Now, that's a little abstract, right? So let's— how else can we define it? Well, discernment can be a way of being self-aware enough to avoid projecting ego distortions onto reality, onto situations, onto people, onto yourself. And it's sort of knowing intuitively that something is true because you are relatively free of things like craving and aversion or having strong preferences. When you're in that state, which is kind of the state of yoga, then truth just kind of shimmers in front of you, you know. So