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  2. Powerful simple truth habit

    felixk_priv replied to felixk_priv's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Tell yourself the truth
  3. Maybe they created the stone near water and transported it to the pyramids?

  4. chasing

    Valach replied to Olaf's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Would you say, in your experience, even this desire is stemming from a healthy place?
  5. I expected better from lefties. Supporting a child killer cause shes insane Yea most people who kill thier own children are prolly fucking insane. That should't make you dodge a prison sentence.
  6. That makes some sense. But still. It's kinda like the infinitely regressive question: Who created God? But this time it's more about humans. Who created human knowledge?
  7. You don't need to be taught, just breaking your inner limits. It's the same for anyone in any time. A tiger is different, it's a natural hunter taught by millions of years of evolution.
  8. That's the main principle of Buddhism. Imo it's an impossible ideal. Those arhats use to be in Tibet in wonderful natural places right? What if they were working 16 h per day in a factory in Bangladesh? If anyone tells them, what would you prefer, return to the Himalayas or here? Maybe they would answer :for me it's the same, I don't care, everything is the reality. Give me 2 hours more per day if you want
  9. @Breakingthewall Still, the question is: Who taught them? Who taught anyone anything?! Who taught a tiger how to hunt?
  10. I bet theres lots of wisdom there yes, and I understand such teachings can be very hardcore so not many will stick to them. But I can question from what Ive heard because when you look it up online, its not straight up lies, also a little from school for example, some encounter with a buddhist, but yes I am aware that I could've heard something that isn't completely accurate, but one can still get a gist of some of the core teachings. Is there something you've noticed that is falsely claimed about buddhism when one looks it up? Just if you happen to have something on your mind there

  11. Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

    Rigel replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    No. If you are in a packed subway train or soemthing similar keep it in. It’s basic decency, not conformity.
  12. Untested theory. Evidence required. Don't forget the stamps I have evidence of the opposite, so.
  13. Id say that enlightenment is a state of the human mind in which the barriers have dissolved and there is no absolute difference between reality and mind, object and subject; then the mind perceives itself as total, unlimited. Not to be confused with solipsism, it doesn't mean that you are creating the others, just that the absolute limits have fallen, the relative limits always exist. You could think, well, I already know that the reality and me are one, can't be otherwise. Yes ok, but the difference is about perceiving it by default without any closure.
  14. @Sugarcoat Ok. I think the teachings of the Buddha in the actual suttas are sound. But of course it will not work for people at large because it is too difficult and people are too satisfied with their lives and they have no grasp of the first noble truth. Even I don't have it deeply although I am interested in it. My point was exactly not to question something based on what you have heard because that could be false and when it comes to Buddhism it is false most of the time.
  15. Its like, I get it, in that "state" (not even allowed to call it that) maybe no concept means anything, but can they at least provide for the rest of us something to grasp, more gate kept than Kriya yoga
  16. Yeah, the problem is that who is observing with attention to understand is the same object that should be understood. For example, if you stare directly to the fear of death, this fear is not something out of yourself, is one of the main structures that constitutes what you are . If you try to understand this fear by the structured mind you could get a conceptual understanding, but the point is stare directly without the filter of the mind. It's not easy because it's hidden, that's why imo it's easier to start with more accessible fears, like trauma. Trauma is the key to be able to understand yourself, because it's obvious.
  17. Nobody 😂😂
  18. Not necessarily trap because that could be said for how most humans live anyways, but theres also difference between questioning peoples paths vs the core teaching itself, because how each individual does it will have some degree of variation. So I questioned whether it worked for people in large, if not then maybe flaws in their personal way of going about it, or maybe in the teachings too. I can question something based on what I know and have heard, im not going into details so I dont need to know the details for that Yea I agree I think the self is greatest curse to ever exist
  19. Since the dawn of humanity, there have been shamans, people who claim to be in contact with the source of creation. The term "enlightened" varies greatly depending on the tradition, but it always has commonalities: equanimity, detachment from worldly matters and power struggles, and often celibacy.... In other words, someone who is more there than here. Before Buddha, there were the Advaita Vedantas who went alone into the forest in acts of extreme ascetic renunciation. Such people also existed in ancient Greece, and I suppose in all cultures. But the definition of "enlightened" is still undefined, and I suppose it never will be
  20. Yea thats accessible any time They need to be penetrated, and it seems attention is what does that
  21. @Sugarcoat Sure, I assumed that 'am I onto something?' means that you think it is a kind of trap that lures people in but never delivers, like so many other spiritual paths. That was my assumption. And my answer was - actually look into it and find out for yourself plus giving a hint towards what you will find. And that there is no lasting happiness in the world is not an assumption, it is just the case.
  22. What you said about exposure is true but imo what is the most important is the understanding of yourself as a psyche, all the layers of need of belonging, fear in many levels, need of control, etc, and look directly all of those energetic structures that shape you as a human mind. In my case I did because I had a lot of bad mental and emotional vibration, then I realized that living in that way was a trap, a solution must be found, then I started looking inside obsessively. Anyway, spirituality is in many cases a kind of patch, a solution for everything that works denying everything.
  23. Not transcended "urge to post"
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  25. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I feel a bit of a sense of being "caught". I am swimming in my uncomfort zone and noticing my (partially overblown) emotions cold. In other words I am feeling some Ouchie Ouchies at their root.
  26. I just asked, idk what you do, your reply has at least as many assumptions as mine I feel haha
  27. @Sugarcoat Reality is the way it is. If only a few practicioners can reach it then that is how it is. Don't blame it on the Buddha. Dullness and boredom are assumptions on your part. I don't know how old you are but I assume that by now you have realized that none of what you imply as valuable - excitement and experiences - can last or be satisfactory. Just read the teachings and think about it for yourself. I am not trying to convert anybody. I am not a Buddhist but I still think the Buddha's teachings are very valuable. —— The Buddha in fact found something that is beyond sensual pleasures - the jhanas. There is debate about what they are exactly but implying that the Buddhist path is dull and boring comes from a lack of familiarity with the teachings. And these jhanas are possible way before any enlightenment.
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