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  2. Dr. Russell Razzaque really nails it with video evidence of cold-blooded murder.
  3. @How to be wise Watched until 46:00. (By the way, this is not me doing the guided inquiry into direct experience as I said above, as you did not give your own sentence, and I also have to counter Leo's points in full, which is at the level of concepts). What Leo does is he makes the case for groundlessness of experience, i.e. it is not sourced from anything but itself, hence there is nothing "outside" of it. But where the limitations of this experience is, is not grounded in anything either. The groundlessness is symmetrical with its infiniteness, which ironically goes beyond its limited appearance as sounds, colors, sensations, feelings, etc., the very things Leo erroneously puts as "base reality". Also, postulating an infinite mind where everything arises within it, outside the limitations of sensations, feelings, etc., is identical to this notion. Because you cannot find a limit on it, only through carving out, which we do here through the act of language and thinking, but which we also do instinctively through the act of perception. Once you deconstruct the very act of perception, the limitations cease to be and you get pure undifferentiated awareness. That is what I want you to do in your direct experience by the way. And I will help you along the way.
  4. The goal is to mitigate damage. I'm afraid you're the one coping if you think this can end well. I don't know how it would work. I'm not privy to any military secrets. The specifics are not something a common person could ever evaluate. Try this thought experiment; imagine the current geopolitical situation as represented by children on the playground. The biggest and strongest kid, little Sam, is the playground bully. He steals the other kids lunch money, he beats up the weaker children, and threatens anyone who might stand up to him. All the kids are whimpering with tails between their legs. Because don't upset little Sam, or he'll pick on you next. This situation will never be solved by allowing Sam to continue his bad behavior. The weaker kids have to stand up for each other, with each other all at once as a cohort, and tell Sam NO in the strongest possible terms. Until little Sam is met with authority equal to or greater than his own, he will keep this misbehavior up for as long as he can get away with it. And every time Sam gets away with stealing lunch money without resistance, he gets bolder and greedier.

  5. Stay Away From Idiots

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

    Mentally ill:
  6. The weakest and most profitable first. See Venezuela.
  7. When I was young 4-5 years old my brother and I where in a orphanage. I never knew my real parents or remembered them. One day at 4 years old talking with one of the teachers about how I came to be at that orphanage she told me I had been born to parents. I looked at her and told her "I wasn't born to anyone, I just came into existence all by myself!" At this she laughed and told me don't be silly of course you were born to parents we all are. That was the day a belief was planted in my mind that I was "Born" and that I shall "die". I used to be really afraid of death. I no longer am. If you contemplate death long enough you realize it's an illusion. You can have direct insight into this being true.

  8. Stay Away From Idiots

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

  9. Stay Away From Idiots

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

    Yes. I am mentally ill for living here.
  10. The phone you are holding right now 🤣
  11. I honestly don’t buy this tech utopia stuff. This is one of their biggest selling points for CEOs to pillage clean water and enrich themselves. “Just give us time, we will sail off into a tech utopia, manifest destiny!” What eveyone has to realize is little fundamentally changes as long as collectively people are unaligned with spirit. No amount of technological progress will change that.
  12. @Carl-Richard Go to 14:00

  13. Done Going To NA Meetings

    Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues

    @SQAAD Are you of the belief that you need a perfect job?
  14. Today

  15. Done Going To NA Meetings

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to SQAAD's topic in Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues

    @SQAAD No. Sharing personally earned wisdom. If you did not do this (judge, rather than discern) - you would not let it bother you so much. The simple fact it perturbs you is evidence of it. You won't understand this until you realize it.
  17. @Natasha Tori Maru Nope. I don't do everything i judge in others. (I used in the past). You are just parroting what you heard from others.
  18. People here in this forum who spend the most time, are the most unspiritual and least developed. Its really sad.
  19. @UnbornTao Your assumptions stink. Not my situation.
  20. Yeah I use a Windows Laptop now. But I barely touch it. Maybe use it once a week.
  21. @Rigel Said the mentally ill one.
  22. I sort of agree. Without wanting to sound too much like a crazy communist, I’d honestly say 95% of modern violence boils down to people living in desperate conditions and fighting over territory / resources just to survive. Even conflicts that seem on the surface to be more about nationalism / ideology (like Russia vs Ukraine) ultimately boil down to this - Russia is an incredibly poor country with lots of desperation, so it’s better for Putin to use nationalism and militarism to control the people than for them to get crazy ideas like “reform” or “foreign investment.” I think, if my intuition is correct and we’re going to see a major backlash against the sort of soulless, toxic orange late stage capitalism, countless people around the world will see their material lives improve and their political freedoms grown, giving them less cause to take up arms and shoot their neighbour because they follow the teachings of Saint Zambo the Wise while their neighbours follow the teachings of Saint Jambo the Just
  23. Ultimately, you can understand that everything that exists is existence. But understanding what existence is from logic is more twisted since logic will lead you to believe that existence must be created, because your understanding operates through cause-and-effect relationships. But existence is not caused, neither as substance nor as manifestation. What we might call substance is being, which means nothing more than the fact that reality is. Being does not imply consciousness; it implies existence. The only cause of this is the absence of limits, and this is not something; it is an absence. The only cause of form is possibility, and what is possible is so by virtue of being coherent with the whole, so being not incoherent. Then the being is due limitlessness, the form is due limits. You have to see them in their context, not merge both ideas since if you do, you would believe that you are God, that's a mistake that leads to absolute contraction when what you are looking for is absolute expansion, aka enlightenment
  24. For your information The people who protect the Kaba in Saudi Arabia and devote their whole lives to taking care of the hygiene of the Kaba and Muhammed's grave must be castrated to do this role . They were like that since the first centuries of Islam. They must be castrated so that lust doesn't distract them from devoting their entire lives to serve God. Also in the history of Christianity many saints used to castrate themselves or pick out their own eyeballs and induce blindness to themselves on purpose so that they forget about sex and women completely and devote their whole life to divinity . Also Hinduism calls the way to realize God "Brahamacharia"...this word literally translates as" the way to Brahama" or the way to God but it also means celibacy.

  25. Stay Away From Idiots

    Joseph Maynor replied to SQAAD's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Sounds to me like you could use some basic life coaching advice. You might make a written list of 10 immediate and tangible goals to accomplish right now that are focused on finances, health, and relationships only. If you feel comfortable posting that here or part of it we can give you feedback. Avoid any woo-woo and keep the list very practical. Relationships could include meeting anyone, and who you spend your time socializing with.

  26. Weirdly a trip on a festival was very deep

    Carl-Richard replied to Jannes's topic in Psychedelics

    Sometimes expectation is a hindrance. If you are in a situation where you do not expect to be spiritual, maybe that is what will happen. And if you try to be spiritual, that is of course generally a hindrance also. There is a song about this that goes "my struggle to free myself from restraints, becomes my very shackles". It's also what tends to happen after a first spiritual experience. Suddenly you start grasping to it, and then it disappears, because the experience is not grasping, it's simply letting what is, is. Spiritual practice, be it psychedelics or meditation, is kind of a game of getting off at the right bus stop at the right time. You generally want to take the bus, the bus helps to take you places, but to land at the right place, you have to go off at the right time. Grasping sort of becomes inevitable, so you have to teach yourself when it's time to not grasp anymore, when it's time to let go, give up the current technique and just see what happens when nothing is on the agenda, where you can just go to a festival and be there without trying to be something.
  27. Who started this rumor? 😂 Here is an open invitation to anybody willing to take it: I can talk you out of solipsism, through a guided inquiry into your direct experience (no conceptual jargon, no philosophical understanding required). We can do it right here, right now. Just let me know. All you need to do is give me one single sentence that describes your idea of solipsism and we will take it from there.
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